Such FDI policies include investment subsidies, tax abatements, and exemptions from domestic regulation and laws.

According to the Federal Board of Revenue's 2006 2007 year book, tax and customs units in Karachi were responsible for 46.75 of direct taxes, 33.65 of federal excise tax, and 23.38 of domestic sales tax.

This recovery almost entirely based on domestic demand gave Sarkozy an extra five billion euros in tax revenues.

To encourage domestic investment, and recognizing that it is difficult to tax assets held abroad, an exit tax could also be imposed on capital taken out of the country.

To encourage domestic investment, and recognizing that it is difficult to tax assets held abroad, an exit tax could also be imposed on capital taken out of the country.

Indeed, this financial repression tax on domestic savers remains a huge opaque source of funding for India s debt ridden government.

The past three months, however, have seen a significant slowdown in China s exports, domestic investment, industrial output, and tax revenues.

To finance development projects, poor and lower middle income countries must devise and implement tax strategies to increase domestic revenue.

ROME An effective tax policy that ensures adequate domestic revenue is a crucial determinant of a country s ability to pursue development policies.

Tax reform.

Tax reform

It started on tax reform a 'flat' income tax, a single regressive social tax, a ban on the turnover tax, etc.

This requires reasonable projections for domestic tax revenue and aid, as well as the right mix of foreign expertise to support the process.

All for One Tax and One Tax for All?

The Spanish government, for example, could have met Spain s building boom and foreign trade deficit with tax increases or by urging domestic wage restraint.

President de la Rúa countered the terms of trade and interest rate shocks from abroad with domestic tax increases, even as the economy contracted.

A tax called a death tax is regarded very differently from a tax called an inheritance tax, even though the two are really identical.

There's a fine line between tax minimisation and tax avoidance.

There's a fine line between tax minimization and tax avoidance.

An Inequality Tax

Evading Tax Evasion

Tax Justice Reconsidered

Tax the Oligarchs

Domestic resource mobilization

Or domestic violence?

Half of tax revenue is collected with a value added tax, which is essentially a tax on consumption.

The tax inspectorate has changed the procedure for sending tax assessment notices.

Japan s government has a huge debt burden, and its consumption tax rate is far lower than the value added tax rates that prevail in Europe. At the same time, the effective corporate tax rate in Japan is higher than it is elsewhere, making it difficult for Japan to attract investment, foreign or domestic.

Japan s Tax Hike Test

Tax and spend (Please)

The Corporate Tax Conundrum

The price includes tax.

This amount includes tax.

Please pay the tax.

This can include broadening the tax base, reducing tax avoidance and evasion, improving tax collection, and developing new, cooperative international taxation strategies.

For example, we can choose how much to collect via a general income tax, a payroll tax, a consumption tax (such as a sales or value added tax), and so on.

Higher exports would not only have yielded directly higher revenues they would have had a multiplier effect on the domestic economy as well, thereby increasing consumption tax revenues.

At the same time, the effective corporate tax rate in Japan is higher than it is elsewhere, making it difficult for Japan to attract investment, foreign or domestic.

In France, unemployment contributions are collected through a payroll tax, not a layoff tax.

Lowering the tax burden on firms including the payroll tax would also be useful.

Reagan also revised the tax code with the bipartisan Tax Reform Act of 1986.

An Energy Tax for Europe

What Corporate Tax for Europe?

Who Needs a Flat Tax?

The Tobin Tax Lives Again