1.4 Indirect tax Indirect taxes are those paid by consumer when they buy goods and service. These include excise and customs duties. Customs duty is the charge levied when goods are imported into the country, and is paid by the importer or exporter. Excise duty is a levy paid by the manufacturer on items manufactured within the country. Usually, these charge are passed on to the consumer.
1.4.1 Sales Tax
A sales tax is a tax paid to a governing body for the sales of certain goods and service. Usually laws allow or require the seller to collect funds for the tax from the consumer, it is usually called a use tax. Often laws provide for the exemption of certain goods or services from sales and use tax.
1.4.2 Central Sales Tax (CST)
Central sales tax is generally payable on the sale of goods by a dealer in the course of inter-state trade or commerce or, outside a state or, in the course of import into or, export from India. The ceiling rate on central sales tax (CST), a tax on inter-state sale of goods, has been
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Since then each year the relevant provision of the finance act specifies that the special excise duty shall be or shall not be levied and collected during the relevant financial year.
1.4.10 Service Tax Service tax was introduced in India way back in 1944 and started with mere 3 basic services viz. general insurance, stock broking and telephone. Today the counter service subject to tax has reached over 100. There has been a steady increase in the rate of service tax. From a mere 5 percent, service tax is now levied on specified taxable services at the rate of 12 percent of the gross value of taxable services. However, on account of the imposition of education cess of 3 percent, the effective rate of service tax is at 12.36
I told you this is taxation without representation. They think they can just become more strict and demanding out of nowhere? We will show them. We must configure against the parliament. That is the fastest way to ban this act.
Taxes! After the French and Indian War, the British government needed money to pay for the cost of protecting the colonists from the French and Indians. The British government approved several taxes including the Stamp and Tea Acts to help pay for the costs of the war. The colonists were expected to pay these taxes.
This act required that many documents such as licenses, diplomas, contracts and even playing cards to be printed on embossed paper that had a tax on it. This act was the very first attempt to tax the colonists directly for activities that occurred solely with the colonies themselves. After the French and Indian War the British national debt skyrocketed and the Prime Minister was eager to pay it down before the government was bankrupted.
These taxes were eventually repealed except for the tax on tea. After a while, the colonists were eventually angered by the taxation on
It was an indirect tax but the colonists were aware of it. It was a tax on imported goods so many of the goods were smuggled into the towns. It affected mostly the merchants and shippers who had to have their things go through the ports so they were taxed. The colonists were not very happy and the two major protesters against this act were Samuel Adams and James Otis.
In the late 1800s, the U.S Treasury Department used sales tax and tariffs to fund its federal budget. A tax or tariffs are funds that are paid to the government that are added when something is bought that is considered valuable. Because of the Civil war, there was a financial burden on the country. In 1861, Congress reacted by implementing taxes on individuals. The first income tax started off by taxing individuals 3% making more than $800, while people who made more than that gave up a larger percentage.
Parliament had passed the Sugar Act and Currency Act the foregoing year. Because tax was collected at ports though, it was simply evaded. Indirect taxes such as these were also much less clear to the consumer
As an effort to control war debts, Parliament passed a law taxing foreign wines, coffee, textiles, and indigo imported into the colonies, expanded the customs service and required colonial vessels to fill out papers detailing their cargo and
The Importance of the 24th Amendment and Effects. The U.S. Constitution has been amended twenty-seven times since ratified on June 21, 1788. These Amendments have been crucial to the up-keeping of America and its constant changes. The most of important of which being the 24th Amendment, which protected voting rights from taxes. The 24th amendment reads as followed “The Twenty-fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax”.
It all started in 1764 when the parliament started putting taxes on items and the colonists didn’t like it. The colonists thought this was unfair because they were getting taxed on out of nowhere. “... So how can the British Parliament place this tax on us?” (Henry,1765).
“The history of present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations [unlawful seizures], all having in direct object the establishments of an absolute Tyranny over these States. ”(Document E). The British taxed just about anything they could; like tea, paper, legal documents, and stamps “Committees are appointed into the characters and conduct of every tradesman, to prevent them selling tea or buying British manufactures. ”(Document I) The British were taxing the American colonists to pay what Britain lost in the French and Indian war.
The Founding Fathers rebelled against the British government for good reasons, which led to the American Revolution in 1783. The Founding Fathers were justified in rebelling against the Britain because the government was not protecting the rights of the citizens, taxing the colonists, and forced them to house British soldiers. In 1756 Britain put the first tax on the colonists. This was the Stamp Act, it required colonists to pay taxes on certain items such as newspapers, legal documents, licenses, and even playing cards.
Imports of lead, glass, paper, paint, and tea were taxed; the British government wanted the colonists to pay so they created punishments for colonists who
Arguably, these taxes were only placed by Britain to “milk” the colonies for profit. Ben Franklin responded to the Stamp Act, writing a letter to John Hughs to discuss efforts to get it repealed (Document G). . In a way, the series of taxes applied by Parliament would spark a fire within the colonists and begin the American Revolution, where Americans finally say enough is enough. The time had come for political and ideological change, where the colonies would break from their motherland, Great Britain. In conclusion, the French Indian War would kick off a series of political, economic, and ideological events that changed the relationship between Britain and its colonies forever.
In addition to duty, imports may be subject to Sales and Use Tax or excise taxes. Duty rates can be a percentage of value or specific dollars/cents per unit. Duty rates vary from 0% to 37.5%, with the average duty rate being 5.63%