Tax Essays

In countries such as Italy, taxpayers regularly challenge tax legislation on constitutional grounds. Taxpayers in the US continue to challenge the US progressive rate structure at trial and appeals court levels without success. In Mauritius, we do not have ample case law related to the taxpayers’ right but in case of a dispute regarding taxation, the court should be able to censure any excessively high tax burden on citizens. Some rare case exist for instance when the NRPT was introduced. In 2010

History of the Estate Tax Estate tax was imposed way back in ancient times about 3000 years ago. In Egypt in the early era, it had been required to have a 10 percent tax on the transfer of assets at the time of death. Even in the first century AD, Augustus Caesar imposed taxes on inheritance and transfer of properties to all but close kin. In medieval period, since all estates and properties are owned by the king, an heir who wished to transfer properties must pay transfer taxes in order to grant

Tax Planning Strategies for Creating and Preserving Wealth You don't just look for clues when something is as important as using tax-savvy long-term investment strategies and short-term tax-avoidance tactics to create a holistic financial plan of attack. It's important to get the best advice from a Certified Tax Coach, but you can't formulate plans or make sound business decisions unless you understand the underlying tax issues and why certain expenses are deductible while others aren't. Clever

about a proposed tax plan amendment by Sen. Rob Portman. This amendment to the tax plan would decrease the excise tax on American-made beer and distilled spirits. An excise tax is a tax imposed on a particular good or service. What this tax amendment will do is increase producer revenue, which is the raw amount of money they make from selling their good. The government uses taxes as a source of revenue, therefore, this amendment will decrease the government's revenue. Decreasing the tax will also increase

apply an indirect tax of a 2% on the price of junk food, an inelastic product. Junk food is a demerit good with negative externalities and therefore the government wants to decrease the quantity demanded. In this case the tax applied is an Ad Valorem tax as it is a percentage of the price. Introduction to the theory: An indirect tax changes the structure of a market provoking an increase in prices and a decrease in the quantity demanded and supplied. However the effect of the tax varies depending

Luxury tax is not a solution to inequality within society. Introduction A real challenge for many economists is to find a way to decrease the financial inequality within society. Several economic and political possibilities exist to decrease the big differences between the rich and the non-rich. On the one hand, providing state subsidy might be a good tool for this challenge. In this way relatively poor people in society are helped to increase their welfare and to limit inequality. On the other

A Federal Tax Lien or State Tax Lien gives the IRS, or your State Department of Taxation, a legal claim to your property as security or payment for your tax debt. A Notice of Federal Tax Lien may be filed only after: • IRS assesses the liability; • IRS sends you a Notice and Demand for Payment - a bill that tells you how much you owe in taxes; and • You neglect or refuse to fully pay the debt within 10 days after we notify you about it. Federal Tax Liens are public records that indicate you owe the

Danquis DeArmond Management 325 Saint Leo University 5/16/2016  First, we have Tax-Favored. Being Tax-Favored is favorable in tax terms for firms or companies to raise money through debt instead of going through the stock market. A company raises money through the stock market, and when that happens it is submitted to get taxed two times. This means the company’s earnings are taxed as part of the corporate income tax, after this is done normally the profits that are leftover get paid out to shareholders

have a tax system known as a progressive tax system. In a progressive tax system, the amount of tax is based on the income of the individual. That is, wealthier individuals pay a higher tax than someone with low income. Still, some people believe a flat tax rate, similar to Europe’s tax system, would be more beneficial. As the name suggests, a flat tax means everyone’s income would be taxed an equal rate regardless of status. I believe the United States should stay with a progressive tax because

Governments need to tax its citizens in order to protect and serve them. Many politicians vehemently debate which taxation methods the government should or should not utilize. Most members of the United States of America pay taxes every year. No wonder taxes play a major role in politics. According to popular belief, we procure an income tax because it provides the best way to tax citizens. Pete Sepp, communications director for the Virginian-based Taxpayers Union, says that “we feel that income

1. What is a progressive tax system? How does it differ from a regressive tax system? A progressive tax system is a system that requires people with higher incomes to pay a greater proportion of their income on taxes. This means that they look for people with really good jobs and make them pay more out of their checks on taxes. Regressive tax systems, are a little bit different. They charge everyone the exact same on taxes. This is your basic tax system. 2. What is gross income? What types of income

gifts that are not subject to the gift tax. This include charitable contributions, gift to a spouse, gifts to a political organization, and tuition or medical payments made on behalf of someone else. In the addition to the above, there is an annual gift tax exclusion that currently stands at $13K/recipient. In other words, you are allowed to give away up to $13K worth of gifts per recipient to as many recipients as you wish in a given year without any tax ramifications. Note that this limit is effectively

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

seemingly favored the 2001 Bush Tax Cuts, a policy that disproportionately favored the wealthy elite and reduced funding for social programs while increasing the national debt, even though the tax cuts were in direct conflict with the economic self-interest and policy preferences of most voters, such as: government programs and deficit reduction. Bartel’s primary argument centers on pervasive misinformation and/or ignorance of the electorate surrounding the 2001 Bush Tax Cuts. Hacker and Pierson cite

About the Non Profit Tax Forms 990 Very similar to the other businesses, even the non profit organizations need to go through the hectic procedure of filing their tax returns. In spite of the fact that a non profit organization might be tax-exempt, it still needs to file and even pay the taxes. It is to be kept in mind that tax compliance is required at country, local, federal and state levels. Thus, non profit organizations cannot afford to ignore this problem. Some significant tax considerations and

apply the European Tax model In the United States, the amount of tax income one owes is based on annual income level. United State citizens do not know where large fractions of their tax money goes like the citizens do in Europe. Tax rate in Europe is more beneficial because the United States does not use taxpayer money to primarily fund health, education and welfare (etc.) for every citizen like the European tax model sets out to do. The United States should adopt the European tax model because it

implement a flat tax? According to Steve Forbes “For many years, people have said, ‘Make the rich pay more,’ and many politicians have said, ‘The rich people need to pay their fair share,’” (Forbes) but what do we think is really fair? In this essay, I will show some of the benefits of implementing a single flat income tax. I will also some of the effects the flat tax will have on the lower class, middle class, and the upper class. I will then show the effects of implementing a flat tax on the United

Tax Fairness: Tax fairness as perceived by prior literatures could either be vertical or horizontal fairness. According to Erich, Niemirowski & Wearing (2006) vertical tax fairness is when taxpayers’ are being treated or taxed with different rate based on their different business activities. On the other hand, horizontal tax fairness is the instance where taxpayers’ are being treated equally in terms of their taxes (Michael, 1978). Horizontal tax fairness indicates that taxpayers’ that are into same

GAS TAXES: The US's Dilemma The reasons behind imposing a tax Taxes are is money collected by a government from businesses or individuals directly or indirectly against services provided to the community. They are important sources of revenue for the government, therefore everybody is obliged by law to pay taxes. If we want to stay in certain country, it is necessary for us to pay tax. All services provided by governments in both levels (local and central) such as health care, building roads

libertarian paternalism on the example of the UK's tax system. Another aim is to find out if the «nudge» approach is effective in the context of tax system. This thesis aims to find out if the implementation of Nudge theory courses any results and how it changes tax system from the side of government and the side of citizen. This thesis hypothesizes that implementation of libertarian paternalism approach in the UK's tax system leads to increase in tax compliance. The reports of the UK Government and