Questions tagged [taxes]
Taxation consists of mandatory payments from taxpayers to the state.
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How does diplomatic immunity work in the case of a diplomat being a dual citizen of both the host and guest nations?
How would the legal precedence work, and have there ever been any such cases?
For example, let's say that someone was born in the USA (and has citizenship by birthright), but their family moved to ...
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How is lowering taxes "socialist"?
In the current leadership contest for the position of leader of the UK's Conservative party, one of the differences between the two candidates is that Liz Truss is promising to lower taxes while Rishi ...
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Has any government ever implemented a break-even tax policy?
I was reading Strong Towns by Charles L. Marohn Jr. In it, he describes how cities must have revenues that exceed expenses in order to survive. However, in his experience, most people react to the ...
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Does the trust fund have the funds needed to cover the shortfall from a gas tax holiday?
In 1956, the federal motor fuel tax was established, along with a dedicated pool of money for the construction of an interstate highway system. Those gas tax funds go into the "Highway Trust ...
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How is printing money different from taxing people?
From what I understand, printing money gives the government more money while, in time, decreasing the value of the rest of the money in circulation (or reducing how much the value of the currency ...
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Why do property taxes fund schools when only a subset of residents actually use said schools?
I send my children to private school and my elderly neighbors have no children in school. When we look at our property tax bills, we notice that 50% of the money we pay goes to the local county ...
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Can taxes diminish Europe's dependency on Russian oil?
Can (higher) excise taxes, as well as taxes on cars with poor fuel economy, diminish the dependency of Russian oil? What are their advantages and disadvantages?
PS: some believe that natural gas is ...
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Has an income ceiling policy been tried in a free market economy?
Some countries have implemented some very high tax rates, but did any country, in recent history, implement a ceiling on all earnings (wages and capital gains) in an, otherwise, self-regulated market? ...
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Do the USA and France offer tax havens?
'Stolen assets of developing countries must be returned,' PM Imran tells UN panel
Prime Minister Imran Khan called upon the international community to take steps to counter illicit flows of money, ...
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Was UK National Insurance meant to cover all welfare payments from an earmarked fund?
In the UK, National Insurance was introduced as a means of paying for health, welfare and pensions. The original 1911 act created a fund that was paid into by workers, employers and the Treasury and ...
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How does Dubai get its money?
I have seen many claims that Dubai has no income tax. Yet, since the Government of Dubai clearly does spend lots of money, how does money flow to the Government of Dubai?
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What is the rationale of banning proof-of-work instead of highly taxing it?
According to CoinDesk, the vice-chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) suggested that cryptocurrency mining based on proof-of-work should be banned:
Proof-of-work crypto mining ...
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Prior to COVID-19, had any country fiscally targeted unvaccinated individuals?
Upon reading that Quebec may impose a health tax on unvaccinated Canadians, I wondered the following: Prior to COVID-19, had any country fiscally targeted unvaccinated individuals?
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How could Distributed Ledger Technology help the government in tax collection and passport issuance?
From this link, I saw that Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) can bring the secure functioning for a decentralized database because it is governed by the rule of networks as well as avoiding cyber-...
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Why are new mothers apparently excluded from receiving the 2021 monthly "Advance Child Tax Credit Payments" if they filed taxes last year?
According to this Stack Exchange post, it appears that one cannot get the 2021 monthly "Advance Child Tax Credit Payments" for a child born or adopted in 2021 if they also filed taxes last ...
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