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While taxing the return on capital at the national level could discourage investment, taxing companies in exchange for location advantages might not.

Dominik Sipowicz mentions the taxing of the auctioned items

This is a version of the fallacy that taxing companies ( capital ) spares ordinary people ( workers ).

In theory, taxing immobile assets is less distortionary, though taxes on structures obviously can discourage both maintenance and new construction.

Tajikistan (its government) has been considering taxing the remittances that its migrant workers are sending home .

Politicians need to end subsidies for coal, oil, and gas, and start taxing emissions from their use.

Another reason to scrap income and move to presumptive taxation of corporate activities stems from the EU s decentralized nature. While taxing the return on capital at the national level could discourage investment, taxing companies in exchange for location advantages might not.

Can he reform a state that undermines output by taxing producers and encourages idleness by increasing unemployment benefits?

A feed in tariff subsidizes the low carbon energy source rather than taxing the high carbon energy source.

Taxing fossil fuels to reduce carbon emissions is a sensible part of the solution to climate change, but it is not the only or best way to prevent warming.

There has been a surge on social media of articles and online petitions regarding the taxing of sanitary napkins.

Another idea is to try to raise more revenue from carbon permits or taxes. Raising funds by taxing negative externalities reduces distortions rather than creating them.

The second change is carbon pricing, either by auctioning emissions allocations or by taxing carbon directly, at rates that start low and rise over the coming decades.

Second, the necessary change in prices would be achieved by taxing energy, using tools that are both practical and efficient.

The US and the UK don t want to weaken their competitive advantage by taxing banks while some other countries do not.

That means changing the way they produce and consume energy reducing subsidies, ensuring appropriate pricing, and adequately taxing environmentally damaging products.

Moreover, the current economic crisis has led to renewed talk about the need for the European Union to have taxing authority.

Bush did present himself as a conservative... conservatism is hostile, for reasons ranging from the abstract and philosophical to the concrete and practical, to high spending and high taxing....

Why did the US not follow the more direct path of redistribution, of taxing or borrowing and spending on the anxious middle class?

Even more importantly, policies can discourage foreign borrowing led consumption booms by taxing capital inflows (Chilean style) or increasing financial intermediaries liquidity requirements.

Donald Trump, the US President, fired the first warning earlier this year by taxing key Chinese exports including solar panels, steel and aluminium.

Countries that now have solid financial regulatory systems in place are already effectively taxing their financial firms more than, say, the US and the UK, where financial regulation is more minimal.

Countries that now have solid financial regulatory systems in place are already effectively taxing their financial firms more than, say, the US and the UK, where financial regulation is more minimal.

This means that policies aimed at ensuring an equitable outcome should rely on either owning or taxing the inputs that capture the team surplus.

All other OECD countries treat the profits of their companies foreign subsidiaries very differently, relying on the so called territorial method of taxing foreign earnings.

Taxing fossil fuels to reduce carbon emissions is a sensible part of the solution to climate change, but it is not the only or best way to prevent warming. There are other ways to cut carbon from the atmosphere.

Rather than punitively taxing wealth, globalization strengthens the case for shifting to a flat tax on income (or better yet consumption) with a moderately high exemption.

With so many more old people in coming decades, governments will be hard pressed to raise enough money to pay for their needs by taxing the young.

He argued that taxing short term movements of money in and out of different currencies would curb speculation and create some maneuvering room for domestic macroeconomic management.

One proposal calls for taxing national and international financial transactions. Others call for allocating Special Drawing Rights (SDR s) from the IMF, or for using the IMF s gold resources.

True, great thinkers like John Maynard Keynes and the late Nobel laureate James Tobin floated various ideas for taxing financial transactions as a way to reduce economic volatility.

For example, taxing individual rather than family income which in many economies imposes a higher marginal tax on the second earner in households would encourage women to seek employment.

They advocate for the end to official auto fleets and speculative projects and support taxing electrical companies, fining banks in possession of empty houses, and auditing the public debt.

But taxing basic foods and household items can have a disproportionate impact on lower income families, whose limited disposable incomes are already stretched thin, and thus can exacerbate existing inequalities.

The most significant escalation rolled in this week with new tariffs affecting 200 billion ( 150 billion) worth of items, effectively taxing half of all goods coming into the US from China.

If you re a writer who still reads the comments on your own articles (out of masochism, maybe), it can be very taxing to encounter reams of cruel insults and wild accusations.

Gore s film would give the Europeans, always in danger of being marginalized at these meetings, the chance to boast about how they, unlike the Americans and Russians, are already doing their part by heavily taxing gas consumption.

The high cost of employing workers in France is due not so much to wages and benefits as it is to payroll taxes levied on employers. The entire French political class has long delighted in taxing labor to finance the country s generous welfare provisions, thus avoiding excessively high taxation of individuals income and consumption though that is about to come to an end as Hollande intends to slap a 75 tax on incomes above 1 million.

Against this background, government tax and spending policies, as well as labor market regulation, should be reformed to help boost female employment. For example, taxing individual rather than family income which in many economies imposes a higher marginal tax on the second earner in households would encourage women to seek employment.

A feed in tariff subsidizes the low carbon energy source rather than taxing the high carbon energy source. In our example, the government would pay a subsidy of 0.10 kilowatt hour to the solar power plant to make up the difference between the consumer price of 0.06 and the production cost of 0.16.

Of course, some criticisms of technocratic remedies may be populist posturing, but sometimes they contain insights that ivory towered (and usually US trained) technocrats miss. Consider the case of Mexico, where a proposal to raise revenue by taxing food and medicines consumed by the poor was, unsurprisingly, rejected by a democratically accountable legislature.

Raising funds by taxing negative externalities reduces distortions rather than creating them. Though such taxes are spectacularly unpopular perhaps because individuals refuse to admit that the externalities they themselves create are significant I regard them as an important direction for future policy (and I intend to suggest other ideas along these lines in future columns).