Tax collection in Afghanistan has increased 22 percent in 2015 from the previous year, but the methods of tax collection — increasing the tax percentage and freezing accounts of large investors — are shortsighted.
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We are talking about our plans to improve tax collection.
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The ministry also said it wanted to improve tax collection.
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This was supported by strong tax collection during the year.
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Rather, the ordinance is intended to facilitate tax collection, he said.
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It continues to function, with a sophisticated bureaucracy driving tax collection.
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A bill to improve tax collection, meanwhile, is idling in parliament.
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Congress has failed to bring sales tax collection law into modernity.
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Hence, we expect the government to revise the tax collection target downwards.
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As formal businesses have shut or gone underground, tax collection has plummeted.
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That appears to have provoked ISIS into stepping up tax collection efforts.
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The expansion of sales tax collection requirements will likely fuel more growth.
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This makes tax collection "a nightmare", as the treasury has described it.
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The story of human government is largely the story of tax collection.
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Mishustin worked to modernize Russia's previously corrupt and inefficient tax collection system.
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The handles included royal stamp markings, part of the tax collection system.
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There is also a government tax collection point at junction, officials said.
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Tax collection is better than in the worst days of cronyism and corruption.
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Tax collection has improved, despite the economic shock of the American troop drawdown.
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Burundi relies now on domestic tax collection and modest tea and coffee exports.
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Tax collection rose in part due to a recent increase in job creation.
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Government data showed India's net tax collection in the six months ended Sept.
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Tax collection would take a hit, followed by a decline in city budgets.
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The budget savings have been generated by structural reforms and improved tax collection.
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We are forgoing tax collection on $2.6 trillion of revenues for multinational corporations.
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Under Mr. Larson's bill, payroll tax collection would resume for earnings over $400,000.
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Banks are clogged with non-performing loans, and tax-collection rates have actually fallen.
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Better tax collection is boosting government revenues, but this only covers public sector salaries.
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Because of an underdeveloped banking system, most transactions are in cash, hindering tax collection.
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A campaign to close loopholes in tax collection has hit small firms especially hard.
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French government administration buildings, including those dealing with tax collection, were also a target.
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U.S. corporate tax collection totaled 2.6% of GDP in 2014, according to the OECD.
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U.S. corporate tax collection totaled 2.6% of GDP in 2011, according to the OECD.
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For an interactive graphic showing the December-January tax collection period, see: tmsnrt.rs/2J8yKdL.
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Guedes said tax collection data have been "surprising" recently, indicating a more positive trend.
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With a reformed tax code, it's now time to fix the tax collection agency.
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That's because Beijing often steps up enforcement of tax collection at the same time.
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They also liked measures to end wasteful fuel subsidies, improve tax collection and increase VAT.
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An IRS spokesman said the federal tax collection agency had no comment for this story.
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The senators, meanwhile, claim they are a "clear violation" of the laws surrounding tax collection.
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While it doesn't create new taxes, the rate of sales tax collection will certainly increase.
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Economists have long pointed to low levels of tax collection in Africa's most populous country.
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It represents a substantial tax collection burden for small and midsize retailers around the country.
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Karunanayake expects revenue to improve through a more streamlined and simplified automated tax collection system.
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Economists have long criticized the low levels of tax collection in Africa's most populous country.
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Former prosecutors now run the Ministry of the Interior and administer the tax collection office.
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TES bonds make the second-largest contribution to public finances in Colombia, after tax collection.
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Central to Americans' confidence in our government is their confidence in our tax-collection system.
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The government had set a tax collection goal of 130.1 trillion pesos for last year.
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Indonesia has been trying for years to improve its tax collection to fund government programmes.
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THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE The tax collection agency has been underfunded and understaffed for years.
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From the podium he enumerated PiS's successes, such as reducing child poverty and improving tax collection.
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An overturning may push Amazon to demand its sellers be more thorough in sales tax collection.
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Indeed, draconian policies to expand tax collection often hamper the very growth that brings it about.
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Although tax collection has been improved, little has been done by Syriza to boost Greek productivity.
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Half depends on progress in 12 areas of governance, such as tax collection and tackling corruption.
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The government is trying to boost tax collection to help to close a yawning budget deficit.
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Tax collection, already lax in ultra-Orthodox and Palestinian neighbourhoods, has not increased in six years.
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The primary purpose of the program is payments to insurers, not "general tax collection," he added.
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In the UK, blockchain is currently being tested as a tax collection and remittance dispersal platform.
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But even if changes were made to sales tax collection, that may end up benefiting Amazon.
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" The court said the measure's primary purpose was "to simplify tax collection and ease administrative burdens.
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That's the top property tax rate and the per-capita property tax collection in the nation.
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But tax collection, particularly from smaller companies, is difficult in Indonesia and new rules are often ignored.
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Indonesia is eager to ramp up tax collection to reduce its budget deficit and fund infrastructure programs.
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Collaborative economy platforms should fully cooperate with national authorities to record economic activity and facilitate tax collection.
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The budget also over-estimates the expected tax collection from businesses, creating even more room for extortion.
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF), which has long pressed African states to improve tax collection, urges caution.
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By this point, people are pretty good at sniffing out bogus tax collection scams, the study found.
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In the past two years, Washington and Pennsylvania closed the loophole by passing marketplace tax collection laws.
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By the end of 2016, Amazon's tax collection had expanded to 29 states, according to Mr. Davis.
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Indonesia is eager to ramp up tax collection to reduce its budget deficit and fund infrastructure programmes.
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Fiscal revenues outperformed by approximately 2.0% of GDP in 2015 due to strong growth in domestic tax collection.
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And it wants to improve the tax collection system so that tax revenues will rise again from 2020.
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Indonesia is eager to ramp up tax collection to reduce its budget deficit and fund an infrastructure program.
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Tax collection slumped under Mr Zuma; key parts of the revenue authority were dismantled and tax evasion soared.
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Tax collection dropped 1.19 percent to 127.607 billion reais in December from the same month a year ago.
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They point to the gap between targets and results so far in infrastructure, tax collection and growth rates.
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North Dakota and the Physical Presence Rule for Sales Tax Collection At issue was the Quill Corp. v.
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But tax collection is too weak for the government to do much to soften any slowing of growth.
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The dispute has disrupted everything from air travel to tax collection and suspended pay for 800,000 government workers.
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Income taken in by the South covered barely 30 percent of expenses, but Communist tax collection continued apace.
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International donors rely on limited measures of progress, such as legal reforms and the amount of tax collection.
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Poland will improve tax collection, while inflation and still high growth will secure bigger budget revenues, he said.
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The government can raise money by making sure its tax collection agency is not subject to political pressure.
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The commonwealth's funds have also been depleted by subsidized electricity, government inefficiency and a dysfunctional tax collection system.
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She cited a range of reasons for this shift, including compliance efforts and technological progress in tax collection.
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He said the Greek government had promised to make further adjustments in pensions as well as improve tax collection.
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The country has now to rely on modest revenues from coffee and tea exports and on domestic tax collection.
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Tax collection and enforcement activities would be moved to a new, smaller and more accountable department at the Treasury.
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There should be more transparency so it is clear who [owes] what and how loopholes are reducing tax collection.
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Indonesia is eager to ramp up tax collection to narrow its budget deficit and fund an ambitious infrastructure program.
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U.S. corporate tax collection totaled 22014% of GDP in 22005, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
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The establishment of the Independent Authority for Public Revenue modernised management and demonstrably reduced political interference in tax collection.
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The causes are years of heavy spending and lax tax collection in a country with weak rule of law.
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Previously, Amazon left it to third-party merchants on the platform to handle their own tax collection where applicable.
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But the company doesn't require sales tax collection on its third-party platform sales outside a handful of states.
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Such a ruling would pave the way for states to expand tax collection for online sales across the board.
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin hinted in July the administration may soon take "a position" on Amazon's tax collection policy.
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The sheltering move is well known by the California Franchise Tax Board, the state agency responsible for tax collection.
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Pakistan has struggled for years with high unemployment, extremely low rates of tax collection, runaway corruption, and sluggish exports.
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Robust economic growth and improved tax collection has kept Poland's deficits low in recent years, despite substantial welfare spending.
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Maric said the surplus was the result of higher revenues from an excellent tourist season and improved tax collection.
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Its robust cash-generating capacity, supported by excellent tax collection should allow liquidity to remain sound in 2017-2019.
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Amazon does offer a state sales tax collection feature to "third-party" sellers, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Amazon does offer a state sales tax collection feature to "third-party" sellers, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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First, it would add new payroll taxes to wages over $400,000 (currently, tax collection stops at $132,900 of annual income).
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The deal would help Colombia improve tax collection and Panama improve transparency in its financial system, de la Guardia said.
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If implemented nationally, they would require vast increases in tax collection, and could generate large, unforeseeable and unwelcome side-effects.
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The government sees revenue up 12 percent to 43.9 billion levs, betting on good economic growth and improved tax collection.
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The Balkan country has accumulated a budget surplus of 2.6% of GDP through May mainly due to better tax collection.
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Submissions also showed that GCHQ had shared material with Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC), the British tax collection agency.
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In its ruling on Wednesday the court turned down requests from Sonatrach and the Italian tax collection agency for compensation.
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Economic reforms like cutting fuel subsidies, boosting tax collection and anti-corruption policies have "seemingly peaked investor interest," he added.
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Pot businesses, therefore, are on the whole stuck working with cash, which causes problems for more than just tax collection.
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Improvements in tax collection, lower-than-projected capex, and robust growth have resulted in a strong budgetary performance this year.
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Tax collection rises without a healthy debate on which ongoing spending and tax programs should be reformed, downsized or eliminated.
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Some industry experts have argued mandatory sales tax collection laws by states for e-commerce may be positive for Amazon.
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Whether it is online, in-person or by phone, taxpayers deserve a tax collection agency that is focused on them.
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Some come from the insurgency's proselytising wing; others are military commanders, or from logistics, medical, intelligence, tax collection and judiciary functions.
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The decision "will remake the landscape for state tax collection in the U.S.," said Harley Duncan of the auditing firm KPMG.
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States have grown increasingly reliant on fines and fees, as well as asset forfeiture, to supplement tax collection in recent years.
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Baqir said the government could lower the deficit by cutting unnecessary spending and boosting tax collection and European Union funds absorption.
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U.S. Representative Jim Sensenbrenner, a Wisconsin Republican, said the bill he introduced this week will clarify interstate sales tax collection requirements.
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Sudpay: Developed an integrated, multi-support, multi-service and multi-operator digital tax collection platform that connects merchants to financial institutions.
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The Wayfair opinion suggests that membership in the agreement would very likely blunt most other legal challenges to state tax collection.
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The new law in Pennsylvania requires sales tax collection regardless of whether the merchant has a physical operation in the state.
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Rather than reduce other taxes that are more economically distortionary, resulting in a "revenue neutral" outcome, this proposal expands tax collection.
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On April 1, Pennsylvania became the second state, after Washington, where Amazon is instituting Marketplace Tax Collection for third-party sellers.
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In a 2000 press conference on the reassessment effort, Duggan said Detroit's property tax collection rate was improving as a result.
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The total tax collection shortfall for the current fiscal year could be about 3 trillion rupees - the highest shortfall ever recorded.
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The government says it can cover the cost of its new welfare policies by improving tax collection and cutting administrative costs.
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South Carolina has filed a complaint arguing existing laws would make Amazon the responsible party for third party sales tax collection.
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Daniel M. also managed to plant a mole inside the agency in North Rhine-Westphalia responsible for tax collection, officials said.
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Thirty-one other states have also expanded their state tax collection authority to sellers with no physical presence in their state.
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"This was possible thanks to better tax collection, we chased away this tax mafia," Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki told news conference.
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Adding scrutiny from not only the tax collection agency but your neighbors and competitors makes it tougher to fudge your reported income.
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The prime minister, whose government supports digital payments, brought in demonetisation to crack down on the shadow economy and improve tax collection.
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Sud-pay: Developed an integrated, multi-support, multi-service, and multi-operator digital tax collection platform that connects merchants to financial institutions.
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You need to register a "micro-company", report your earnings for corporate taxes, report sales tax collection in some cases and more.
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Buffet said that he too was under IRS audit and Trump is "afraid" not of the tax-collection agency but of voters.
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Administrators of aid say its goal was to strengthen things like law enforcement, employment and tax collection, which is a slow process.
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And, I will tell you, a lot of that tax collection debt that goes uncollected comes from an overly complicated tax code.
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Recently 107 businesses and associations, including Colony Brands, signed a letter in support of the Judiciary approach to remote sales tax collection.
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This bill codifies present federal doctrine by prohibiting states from imposing sales tax collection and reporting burdens on out-of-state businesses.
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Kansas has missed its projected tax collection targets in ten of the last twelve months, according to the state Department of Revenue.
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Nearly all of the nation's largest e-tailers already developed sales-tax collection systems for every state because they have stores there.
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On April 1, Pennsylvania will become the second state, after Washington, where Amazon is instituting Marketplace Tax Collection for third party sellers.
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The RTPA even provides free certified software and software upgrades to online retailers to ensure the sales tax collection process is seamless.
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Amazon charges its third-party sellers a sales tax collection service for a 2.9 percent fee, so the company may actually benefit.
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According to the authorities, 20% of the project is financed from bond offerings to Ethiopians, and the remaining 80% from tax collection.
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Rather than decrease spending to match tax collection levels, Puerto Rican bureaucrats simply issue bonds to pay teachers, police officers, and firefighters.
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The prime minister, whose government supports digital payments, brought in demonetization to crack down on the shadow economy and improve tax collection.
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You can do whatever you want but a decline in immediate tax collection needs to be compensated with other cuts in expenditures.
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"The country's growth will be obtained on the back of investments and better (tax) collection, not on raising tax rates," he said.
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Fitch expects operating revenue will grow 2%-103% in 2017, based on greater resources from the funding system and higher tax collection.
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Mishustin excelled at the most important task under Russia's model of state capitalism, which rests on massive government spending: efficient tax collection.
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Wayfair, it is deciding whether a state may impose sales tax collection obligations on sellers without a physical presence in that state.
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This is the latest step the tax collection agency is taking to reflect changes stemming from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
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Thompson ran Britain's tax collection authority before taking up the FRC reins last year to overhaul what lawmakers called a "toothless" watchdog.
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"Amazon had avoided sales-tax collection for years with various clever tricks," journalist Brad Stone wrote in his 2013 book The Everything Store.
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The Marketplace Fairness Act prohibits states from imposing new tax collection obligations until after it is in place, eliminating any retroactive tax liability.
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Amazon offers its third-party sellers an optional sales tax collection service for a 2.9 percent fee (based on the collected sales taxes).
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Generally analyzed through the lens of tax collection, a country's creation of a tax haven within its borders is universally deemed lousy policy.
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The share of income accruing to the top 1%, a broad measure of inequality, is the highest since tax collection began in 1922.
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The tax collection agency has service centers across the country that require staff to have face-to-face contact with the general public.
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Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said his oil-producing western province was also taking additional steps, including suspending corporate income tax collection until Aug.
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But traditional property tax collection assumes a private revenue stream that is simply impossible to generate on vast acres in remote backcountry areas.
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Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said his oil-producing western province was also taking additional steps, including suspending corporate income tax collection until Aug.
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Combined with a recent surge in crude oil prices to their highest since 2014, the higher tax collection has crushed the independent's margins.
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Mohamed Hussein said the blast targeted a tax collection center during the morning rush hour as Somalia returned to work after its weekend.
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Our systems of law, transportation, tax collection, health care and security (Homeland and otherwise) all risk severe disruption the longer the shutdown lasts.
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Thailand is studying plans to toughen tax collection rules for internet and technology firms, the head of the Revenue Department told Reuters last month.
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Here's a closer look at some of the documents we collected, including tax collection forms, religious edicts and the will of a suicide bomber.
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He plans to speed up tax collection, so that the value of revenues is not inflated away by the time they reach the treasury.
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He has overseen a tightening of tax collection laws and delivered the first budget surplus in two decades last year, helped by economic growth.
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Many countries are relying on offsetting new expenditure measures with faster growth and improvements in tax collection, areas that have disappointed in the past.
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Efforts to improve tax collection, increase excise duties and reduce expenditure on social benefits should support a positive fiscal structural adjustment in 2017-2019.
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A worsening dollar shortage crippled imports, while the government faced a ballooning public debt, partly due to huge subsidy costs and poor tax collection.
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The lame duck is not a time to rush through a complicated bill that paves the way for a new system of tax collection.
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While Garcia largely prevailed in Tax Court in 2013, his scuffle with the tax collection agency underscores the risks athletes face at tax time.
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If they had opted into Airbnb's tax collection system, the top 50 U.S. cities might have earned $250 million in tax revenue last year.
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Additionally, NCA asked for no-interest and low-interest loan assistance, expanded unemployment insurance to temporarily laid off employees, and suspended payroll tax collection.
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Digital payments, the government figured, could better track revenue and lead to efficient tax collection for money to pay for roads, subways and ports.
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Still, tax collection is poor, powerful industries are tax-exempt, and government debts have soared, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
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Another 14.9 billion zloty will come from improvements in tax collection and 4.3663 billion zloty will come from changes to social security system payments.
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Europe's fiscal policy needs a shift away from austerity toward a common pact for tax collection and investments, which would trigger social and ecological innovations.
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Strong Operating Performance Barcelona's strong operating performance is largely driven by large transfers from the central government (42% of operating revenue) and strong tax collection.
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When a deficit-spending government cuts the budget of its tax collection agency, it's like a company that's losing money firing its accounts-receivable staff.
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" "Europe's fiscal policy needs a shift away from austerity toward a common pact for tax collection and investments, which would trigger social and ecological innovations.
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Babis served as finance minister from 2014 until May this year, presiding over a drive to raise tax collection and a fiscal surplus last year.
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The government has to find money for social spending and undertake some hard reforms to improve tax collection and adhere to the fiscal consolidation trajectory.
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The news comes at a time when the ruling conservative Law and Justice party (PiS) has stepped up actions aimed at more effective tax collection.
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Better tax collection in conjunction with a pick-up in economic growth could deliver additional revenues of around 0003 percentage point of GDP by 2018.
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California's legal pot market has fallen around $100 million short so far this year in cultivation and excise tax collection, according to the Associated Press.
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He began a shake-up of the Tanzania Port Authority, and extended it to the Tanzania Revenue Authority as he launched a tax collection drive.
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At the news briefing on Saturday, Mr. Mnuchin defended his decision to oversee the request, noting that the Treasury Department supervises the tax collection agency.
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The results of our analysis show a 33 percent increase in local tax collection when local governments adopt these specific types of citizen participation programs.
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The main drivers for increased tax collection came from the foreign corporations excise tax, the Sales and Use Tax and the motor vehicle excise tax.
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Strong Operating Performance Barcelona's strong operating performance is driven by large transfers from the central government from the funding system and high property tax collection.
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Closing unjustified tax loopholes is not a tax increase; rather, it's tax collection from those currently avoiding, without a legitimate public policy purpose, paying taxes.
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In addition, some administrative costs such as for tax collection and fraud detection could increase with an insurance program that covers the entire U.S. population.
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It abolishes an unpopular state tax collection agency, raises pensions and offers an amnesty for tax dodgers who declare cash previously hidden from the authorities.
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Governments' cuts to their headline corporate tax rates only explain around half the overall fall, suggesting multinationals are still outpacing attempts to tighten tax collection.
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He has overseen a drop in budget deficits thanks to a pick-up in growth, record low interest rates and focus on better tax collection.
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The latest: The explosion was caused by a vehicle filled with bombs appearing to target morning traffic near a tax collection center, per the Post.
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In 2015 CICIG's revelation of a corruption network in the tax-collection agency led to the removal and imprisonment of the then president, Otto Pérez Molina.
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"When we go to some locations, it's quite difficult to identify who the employer is," Janet Alexander of HMRC, the body responsible for UK tax collection.
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RELATED: The country with the highest income tax in the developed world U.S. corporate tax collection totaled 2.6% of GDP in 2014, according to the OECD.
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TAX collection in Africa resembles an exasperating fishing expedition, in which the big fish wriggle into tax havens and the tiddlers hide in the informal sector.
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In practice, its development agents "do everything" from tax collection to mobilising locals to attend meetings and vote for the ruling party, sighs an agricultural expert.
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The government accelerated asset sales in this current fiscal year after a chaotic rollout of a new national goods and services tax undermined tax collection targets.
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RELATED: The country with the highest income tax in the developed world U.S. corporate tax collection totaled 3003% of GDP in 2014, according to the OECD.
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This significant capitalization doesn't even take into account the complex steps Amazon has implemented to shield its revenue from federal tax collection through overseas tax havens.
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Indrawati, who met Finance Minister Kemi Adeosun on Tuesday, said she and Buhari discussed the government's "commendable goals to improve tax collection and crackdown on corruption".
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These requirements, such as owning or leasing real or tangible property or employing workers in a state, set a national standard for future tax collection cases.
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In 2015, she was appointed to the board of Equitalia — a state-owned tax collection agency — while retaining her position within the Treasury, her lawyer said.
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Retailers who are not currently selling through Amazon might find that the sales tax collection option a salient enough upgrade to become a third-party seller.
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All Elwood's problems—the choking traffic, the precarious work conditions, the crumbling infrastructure—have been compounded by an original sin: the decision to forego tax collection.
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Despite this unambiguous ruling, South Dakota passed a statute (SB 106), effective on May 1, imposing new sales and use tax collection obligations on remote sellers.
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He said a working committee had been set up to find solutions on tax collection for companies such as Alphabet Inc's Google and other technology firms.
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Similar to fake tax collection, this scam hinges on grifters pretending to be debt collectors and harassing victims to pay debts that they don't actually owe.
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It's probably inevitable that the I.R.S. will find itself in the middle of fraught questions that don't seem to have much to do with tax collection.
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He threw out the top managers of the tax collection authority and replaced them with his own people, partly to avoid being prosecuted for tax evasion.
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These include measures to strengthen real estate tax collection, prevent use of offshore tax havens, and crack down on "unreasonable commercial arrangements" designed to avoid taxes.
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Amazon currently collects sales tax on that products it sells directly, but leaves it up to sellers on the platform to handle their own tax collection.
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The move comes at a time when Indonesia is eager to ramp up tax collection to narrow its budget deficit and fund an ambitious infrastructure program.
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The changes required by Greece's creditors sought to force improvements to deeply rooted structural problems in public administration, tax collection, the judicial system and business regulations.
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Starting such a programme from scratch would take up around half the central government's annual budget, such is the pitiful state of direct-tax collection in India.
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He has improved tax collection and promoted infrastructure projects, such as rail links and power plants, in the hope that Afghanistan will become a central Asian hub.
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But with centralised tax collection greatly diminished, public debt has piled up - to 68 billion dinars in the west, including unpaid state obligations such as social insurance.
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Chanda said low copper prices and the depreciation of the kwacha this year hit mining companies, leading to a 1 billion kwacha drop in expected tax collection.
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The board voted to request financial information from Garcia Padilla including weekly cash flow reports, monthly reports on revenues and tax collection efforts and monthly payroll reports.
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Cook is not the only one to argue that the EU's increasingly aggressive tax collection puts more pressure on the next administration and Congress to tackle reform.
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For South Dakota, a business need only have 200 transactions regardless of the dollar amount of each to fall victim to the state sales tax collection rules.
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Rather than base a system on where customers are located, the Judiciary proposal would require sales tax collection to be driven by the location of the seller.
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Nunez said it was still too soon to rate the repatriation as a success or failure, adding that the government did not set a tax collection goal.
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So says Fredrick Lokule, a veteran civil servant who is passionate about bureaucracy, of all things — specifically tax collection, the thankless task that any functioning state requires.
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The Marketplace Fairness Act uses that authority to condition the power of states to compel tax collection on membership in the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement.
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These large, marketplace platforms already have nationwide tax-collection software in place because sellers which sell on their marketplace platforms must collect taxes in their own states.
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Both the Senate's Marketplace Fairness Act and the House's Remote Transactions Parity Act authorize states to require tax collection by online and other out-of-state sellers.
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Source: BofAML Global Investment Strategy Pending U.S. and EU regulations, such as increased online sales tax collection, could threaten 4 percent of tech revenue, the report said.
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While President Donald Trump continues to slam retail giant Amazon's tax practices, the tax-collection practices of his own organization's online store raise questions of their own.
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A decision by the Supreme Court supporting economic nexus would allow states to impose sales tax collection on sellers without physical presence, including Amazon's third-party sellers.
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Marketplace Tax Collection, the new service, will automatically "calculate, collect, and remit" sales tax for third-party merchants selling products to customers in certain states, Amazon said.
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BANGKOK, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Thailand is studying plans for tougher tax collection rules governing internet and technology firms, according to the head of the country's Revenue Department.
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The U.S. federal tax collection agency said it was continuing to examine the cause of the outage, but that it appeared to have been a hardware failure.
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In other instances, they allowed Amazon to benefit at the expense of our local business economies by granting the tech giant an exemption from sales tax collection.
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But with centralized tax collection greatly diminished, public debt has piled up - to 68 billion dinars in the west, including unpaid state obligations such as social insurance.
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We believe sales tax collection changes would have limited impact on consumer use of Amazon and could actually help Amazon's relative competitive positioning in domestic e-commerce.
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That could take a toll on the tax collection agency's ability to ensure a smooth transition and deal with the tsunami of questions coming from confused taxpayers.
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Airbnb said the deal with San Francisco was the latest step in its plan to work with local governments on short-term rental legislation and tax collection.
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However, the laws around sales tax collection have not caught up with the new reality of retail, costing states billions of dollars a year in lost revenue.
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The UK has now moved into a new era of digital tax collection, as its system for automated payment of value added tax has officially been switched on.
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Pennsylvania is just the second state, following Amazon's home state of Washington, that's part of a new service called "Marketplace Tax Collection," which CNBC reported on in November.
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The government's tax collection plunged after the launch of the national Goods and Services Tax (GST) in July that complicated tax filings for business and hit the economy.
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Officials have previously warned that weak tax collection might mean the 2019 fiscal deficit would be "slightly" above the latest estimate of 1.93% of gross domestic product (GDP).
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It's not necessarily because those corporations have been skirting sales tax collection, but some enable thousands of third-party sellers to do so, largely thanks to Quill v.
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They should improve tax collection and borrow only to invest, not to fatten the pay of civil servants (as Ghana did) or to buy warships (as Mozambique did).
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Proponents of expanding online sales tax collection often invoke images of mom-and-pop stores dutifully paying sales taxes while their e-commerce competitors pay little or nothing.
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It also points to agreements with officials in nearly 200 locales around the world, mostly for tax collection and in some cases for broader short-term rental regulation.
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Federal tax collection rose 13 percent from the same month a year ago after adjusting for inflation, to 104.1 billion reais ($33.1 billion), the country's tax agency said.
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But the continued existence of the court's rule from decades past allows large, sophisticated online companies to shirk the tax collection responsibility that local stores face every day.
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Out of an exaggerated concern about compliance burdens on small sellers, it would permanently exempt from sales tax collection any online business with nationwide sales below $85033 million.
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Thursday's Supreme Court decision overturned a ruling from 1992 that allowed online retailers to skirt sales tax collection responsibilities in states where they don't have a physical presence.
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The possible tax law violations include accusations made by Brazilian labor unions that Arcos paid bribes to government officials in return for favors from Brazil's tax collection regulator.
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Some cities have already made that leap by developing tax collection arrangements with home-sharing companies or establishing first- and last-mile ride programs with ride-hailing companies.
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The state's announcement comes amid growing calls by several restaurant and bar owners and street food vendors to forgive tax collection until restaurants can return to normal business.
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He said the group is talking to the government to evaluate measures such as tax collection deferrals for ethanol producers to help them stay profitable in coming months.
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Higher state expenses and lower than expected tax collection pushed the deficit close to 25% so far in 28, above an initial target of 28% — its 0003 level.
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"The reality remains that tax collection is not fulfilling expectations and the entire budget balance was significantly influenced by extraordinary non-tax income," Raiffeisenbank analyst Vit Hradil said.
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But the report said India faces a challenge on the fiscal front: the economic slowdown has impacted tax collection, while state spending on the farm sector is rising.
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Crafts marketplace Etsy said Congress should take the opportunity to pass a law to streamline online sales tax collection nationwide, to circumvent a potential mishmash of state requirements.
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The OECD largely praised the state's fiscal policy and a declining public debt burden but recommended more spending on education and transportation infrastructure as well as improving tax collection.
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The finance ministry rushed out a lengthy statement detailing the positive impacts, including improved tax collection, a widening of the tax base and new information on possible tax evaders.
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Meanwhile, soft economic data has raised questions about whether he has the right recipe for growth while hesitation over a tax collection reform has painted him as unusually indecisive.
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Local officials want to maximize tax collection on rental units, while tech advocates say internet firms should not be hamstrung by myriad local rules on what they can publish.
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The bill, co-sponsored by two Democrats and another Republican, also calls on states to develop an interstate compact that would simplify the tax collection process for remote sellers.
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Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov said the positive economic outlook and tax collection year-to-date would allow Sofia to make the payment without putting the country's finances at risk.
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Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake said on Sunday revenue rose 17 percent in the first quarter compared with a year ago, surpassing the government's expectations, due to higher tax collection.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's federal tax collection rose 3 percent in June from the same month a year ago after adjusting for inflation, the country's tax agency said on Wednesday.
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This would mean decreasing the administrative burden for the government — less cost in tax collection since it is automated, faster employment for the refugees and new taxpayers for Finland.
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If implemented, the changes could throw tax collection into disarray in Romania, whose public administration is among the weakest in the EU, plagued by vague legislation, bureaucracy and corruption.
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The Mexican government is not blind to these concerns, and the secretary of the Treasury has tried, with little success, to incentivize the states' tax collection through matching funds.
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The decision left internet retailers scrambling to implement complex and costly tax-collection software to comply with the sales tax laws of the 45 states that impose these taxes.
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The case examines the constitutionality of a South Dakota statute that imposes an economic nexus standard to affix the right to impose sales tax collection requirements on remote sellers.
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin hinted in July that the administration may soon take "a position" on Amazon's tax collection policy, referring to the e-commerce giant's third-party marketplace.
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Moreover, Pamplona initiated a partial valuation of the real estate stock in the municipality, which should lead to a projected property tax collection increase of 1% yoy in 2017.
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The decision overturned a 1992 ruling that limited tax collection by retailers for online sales, regardless of whether or not a business maintains a physical presence in a state.
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Ebay said the decision to build the new tax collection and payment system had paid off with early figures suggesting Australian shoppers were not swayed by the new tax.
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Nigeria, where 10 percent of children die before their fifth birthday, came bottom due to "shamefully low" social spending, poor tax collection and rising labor rights violations, Oxfam said.
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However, earlier this year, Prime Minister Ludovic Orban said the increase, the largest in three decades, was not "100% guaranteed" and depended on economic developments and better tax collection.
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To date, Amazon has collected tax on items that it sells but has left it to third-party merchants on the platform to handle their own tax collection where applicable.
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They argue tax-collection software makes it easier for retailers big and small to comply with their tax obligations, which vary widely from state to state, and product to product.
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The big picture: Documents show firms like Sequoia Capital, a leading U.S. venture capital firm, used Mauritius to avoid U.S. and local tax collection in countries in Africa and Asia.
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But global investors' access to hedging instruments continues to be restricted, and clarification on tax collection policy is needed, ASIFMA, a financial industry lobby, noted in a report last week.
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The government expects improved tax collection next year to increase revenue while reducing the share of public sector salaries to 80 percent of the budget, from 85 percent this year.
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As well as debt, the IMF has also pointed to the unemployment rate, which has risen sharply in the last two years to 16 percent, and to low tax collection.
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However, expansion of sales tax collection requirements through federal legislation, pending Supreme Court decision, or state law changes will likely not harm Amazon, but instead further enhance its competitive position.
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Amazon had to build hundreds of warehouses to meet the promise of same-day Prime delivery anywhere in the U.S., and sales tax collection was rapidly becoming a legislative requirement.
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Unlike the IRS, H&R Block is in the taxpayer service business, not the tax collection business, so we work hard to get taxpayers every credit and deduction they deserve.
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A decision on whether to hand over the financial records is expected to fall to the Internal Revenue Service and Mr. Mnuchin, whose Treasury Department oversees the tax collection agency.
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Mishustin, 53, has been the head of the Federal Tax Service since 2010 and has worked in government roles related to tax collection since the early days of his career.
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Mishustin, 13, has been the head of the Federal Tax Service since 2010 and has worked in government roles related to tax collection since the early days of his career.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government was targeting direct tax collection of 3.83 trillion rupees ($23.8 billion) for the year ending March 23.3 - a 220% increase over the prior fiscal year.
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At a function on Friday, Gordhan criticized Moyane for defying instructions to halt a restructuring exercise at SARS, underlining rising tensions between the finance ministry and the tax collection agency.
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The largely unknown official has been credited with reforming Russia's antiquated tax collection system, but has also faced questions over how his family became incredibly wealthy as he did so.
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Facing an election next year, the centrist government has said it will enforce existing legislation, but that it will pare state spending and boost tax collection to stop deficits ballooning.
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin hinted the administration may soon take "a position" on Amazon's tax collection policy after President Donald Trump blasted the company on the topic last month. Sen.
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BRASILIA, April 26 (Reuters) - Brazil's federal tax collection fell 1.16 percent in March from the same month a year ago after adjusted for inflation, the country's tax agency said on Wednesday.
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For decades, the GOP has worked in concert with a coterie of right-wing institutions to cripple core functions of the state ranging from tax collection to public schools to healthcare.
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Congress should now exercise its power to set clear rules for tax collection from out-of-state sellers, reducing the number of issues that need to be litigated in the courts.
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The government also attributed the lower tax collection and lesser compliance to delayed implementation of some of the main features such as invoice matching, e-way bill and reverse charge mechanism.
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The government's upbeat growth forecast and optimistic revenue collection targets are key to its expectation that direct tax collection will increase by around 7.0% and GST revenue will rise by 5.5%.
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He notes that Airbnb in particular seems to be moving toward accepting that it is not just a responsibility-free enabler — adding more robust insurance options and, increasingly, tax-collection tools.
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To give you an idea of where local and state authorities are getting their money, CNBC Make It rounded up the sources of state and local tax collection in each state.
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He said Amazon would likely be deemed responsible for tax collection if the state can prove the company is "sufficiently important" to helping out-of-state merchants' sales within the state.
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Egyptian authorities have made notable efforts in recent years to improve tax collection and curb tax evasion, tightening laws and launching public campaigns to encourage people to settle their tax affairs.
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Ali said he learned of the details of the arrangement with Katerji by speaking with Islamic State prisoners and others who worked in the group's tax collection and road tolling systems.
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Fitch reduced its deficit forecast for 2019 by 1.5% points to 9% of GDP, saying revenues projected for tax measures "may be optimisitic given minimal economic growth and inefficient tax collection".
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One third of the wealthiest people in the U.K. are currently under investigation by the country's official tax collection agency, according to a report Tuesday by the country's National Audit Office (NAO).
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The chief of staff, Onyx Lorenzoni, said that after Bolsonaro spoke with the head of Brazil's tax collection agency, it was understood that there would be no need to increase the tax.
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The agreement also included increased spending on social services and infrastructure and improved tax collection in an effort to modernize the economy of one of the poorest nations in the Western Hemisphere.
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Low levels of tax collection could be a challenge for the current government as it scrambles for money to spend on its ambitious plans in areas such as infrastructure and science & technology.
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CanCham also flagged "a policy of aggressive tax collection" at SAT, Mexico's tax authority, complaining of a spike in the number of audits and delays in receiving value-added-tax (VAT) refunds.
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Proposed changes in Congress to a tax debt amnesty program, if confirmed, would also cause a "significant" reduction in estimates for tax collection this year, Finance Minister Henrique Meirelles said last week.
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"Not until we are convinced that GDP growth is stimulating some additional tax collection and some specific actions taken by the finance ministry are successful, shall we increase our expenditures," he said.
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This will be supported by the administration's cost control measures and Tatarstan's allocation of additional share of personal income tax collection to the city's budget (0.5ppts in 2017 and 1.7ppts in 2018).
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In fact, Congress already tried outsourcing tax collection twice before, and both times the private efforts were money-losing ventures for the government after the costs of administering the program were considered.
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A painfully slow recovery from the country's deepest recession ever has undermined tax collection and called into question Temer's capacity to significantly reduce a deficit that cost Brazil its investment grade rating.
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Amazon has tried, through lobbyists and outside consultants, to meet with administration officials and members of Congress to counter arguments about the company's tax collection and its relationship with the Postal Service.
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The government is also counting on extra revenues from a tax collection reform which the budget minister said was expected to yield 2 billion euros this year, 1 billion more than forecast.
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A team of civil servants from the Treasury Department led an investigation to stop a massive fraud attempt involving nearly 2 million threatening phone calls to American citizens seeking fraudulent tax collection.
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States, for instance, can collect data on insurance enrollment through driver's license, car registration, and tax collection systems, which could then be used to verify, cross-check, and update the federal database.
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The Russian government, however, has tied its progressive tax collection to the price of oil, so its receipts are much lower at the current sub-$40 price than when a barrel exceeded $100.
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As Mr Atkinson notes, a universal basic income worth a given percentage of the average income (measured as GDP per person) requires a proportional rise in tax collection as a share of GDP.
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Trump has said he won't release his tax returns while under audit by the IRS, though the tax-collection agency has said that audits don't prohibit people from releasing their own tax information.
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North Dakota that, under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution, states do not have the power to require sales tax collection by out-of-state sellers having no physical presence in that state.
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The new rule was likely to ratchet up transatlantic tensions over corporate taxes while eliminating one more strategy U.S. companies can use to cushion the blow from increasingly aggressive EU tax collection efforts.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The Brazilian government lowered its forecast for inflation this year amid a slow economic recovery, which weighed on tax collection and forced it to cut public spending and raise taxes.
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The government is putting reforms in place, he said, like trying to work out how to issue individual tax numbers and empowering the ministry of finance to take the lead on tax collection.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Brazil's tax collection showed an improvement in August with a rise of around 5 billion reais in the total amount, Economy Minister Paulo Guedes said on Friday.
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Because Amazon currently takes a hands-off approach to third party sales tax collection, the company would be able to use this as one evidence of "sticking up for the sellers," he said.
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The order does not call on regional authorities to shut mining operations directly, but rather to squeeze them out by strictly enforcing policies on electricity consumption, land use, tax collection and environmental regulation.
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The bank said it has spearheaded the issuance of local currency financing to several countries to mitigate foreign exchange risks, while helping countries improve tax collection and directing pension assets into infrastructure development.
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LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambian President Edgar Lungu on Monday defended the tax collection agency's decision to shut down a newspaper critical of the government, saying the revenue service did so to recoup unpaid taxes.
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Farmers in Nad Ali said tax collection depended on a number of factors, including one's relationship with the local police commander, proximity to the district center and how badly crops were hurt by disease.
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"Remote sellers", Justice Kennedy wrote, "can avoid the regulatory burdens of tax collection and can offer de facto lower prices caused by the widespread failure of consumers to pay the tax on their own".
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But if the amnesty is to avoid being just a one-off windfall, Indonesia needs to improve a tax collection ratio well below many of its peers, international agencies and local officials have said.
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The IMF said in statement that among the priorities for 2018 are to strengthen tax collection, not grant new wage increases unless growth surprises on the upside and enact quarterly price increase for fuel.
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Trump promised to lower taxes and one set of taxes that will spur a spike in air travel is the abolition of aviation taxes and the devolution of the tax collection to local airports.
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The Federal Reserve Bank in Dallas reports that oil and mineral-related revenue makes up only five per cent of the state's total tax collection, half of what it was in the nineteen-eighties.
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"As we continue to see state and local governments enact different strategies to expand sales tax collection on Internet purchases, the complexity increases for businesses of all sizes," the company said in a statement.
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The South African Revenue Service, the country's tax collection agency, was once a showcase of good governance, and the country's increasing tax revenue was a barometer of support for the young South African democracy.
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However, the "max fac" plan could take three years to introduce and add £20 billion, or $26.6 billion, a year to businesses' bureaucratic costs, said Jon Thompson, the head of Britain's tax collection agency.
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In that case, the Court decided that a state may impose sales tax collection obligations only on sellers with an in-state physical presence in order to avoid imposing undue burdens on interstate commerce.
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The Treasury Department lost staff largely due to budget cuts ordered by Congress in past years for its tax collection service, while the departments of interior and agriculture saw increases due to seasonal hiring.
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Prime Minister Imran Khan introduced the amnesty on undeclared assets, part of a broader drive to widen Pakistan's notoriously narrow tax base, in a bid to identify high earners for more efficient tax collection.
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Khan has touted his "100 Day Plan" but many of the reforms PTI is proposing, from turning around loss-making state-run enterprises to reforming the tax collection bureau, will take far longer to accomplish.
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He suggested the government should start with reforming the state-owned banking sector and also create more money for spending on infrastructure and new public housing through more and quicker privatisations and better tax collection.
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From February to May, attackers had sought to gain access to personal tax information through the agency's "Get Transcript" online application, which calls up information from previous returns, the tax collection agency said in May.
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They should also reduce the size of Bosnia's multi-layer government and improve the quality of government spending by cutting a large public wage bill, improving tax collection and coordination among tax agencies, he added.
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So the citizens of the United States are collectively subsidizing, through foregone tax collection, the giving preferences of the wealthy to a much greater degree than the giving preferences of the middle class or poor.
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Jaitley said he anticipated, over the medium and the long term, that improved tax collection under the GST would cause revenues to grow, and the spending capacity of India's federal and regional governments would increase.
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Economists are calling for other reforms to boost revenue and stop the debt rising, including passing a budget, reforming the heavily subsidized electricity sector, raising fuel tax and tax collection and improving the investment environment.
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A new report from the tax collection agency shows that nearly 1 in 10, or 9.55 percent, of returns filed with a reported income of $0.843 million or more were audited or examined in 2015.
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The program, which runs through June, has generated about 215 million pesos in tax revenue through April 11 on the returned capital, according to Lizandro Nunez, the tax collection manager at Mexican tax authority SAT.
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This is new territory for Amazon, which to date has charged sales tax on products it sells directly to consumers while leaving it up to sellers on the platform to handle their own tax collection.
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Now, if an electronics retailer in Cleveland sells a TV to a customer in Seattle, Amazon will handle the relevant tax collection and payment, regardless of the location of the sender or the fulfillment center.
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He has said he won't release his returns while he is under audit by the IRS, but the tax-collection agency has said an audit does not prevent people from releasing their own tax information.
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Mr. Koskinen said that he applauded the efforts of Republican lawmakers to simplify the filing process, but that big changes to the tax code would complicate the tax collection process for the agency's thin staff.
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Three large and three small municipalities have signed on to the test which will seek to increase tax collection efficiency while cutting bureaucracy in the 78 municipalities Puerto Rico's 3.5 million U.S. citizens call home.
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Making the biggest recent reform of tax collection methods, the government introduced faceless assessment this month, but resistance to change from within the bureaucracy could lead to a bumpy roll-out for the new system.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati on Wednesday warned the coronavirus epidemic in China, which has spread to some other countries, could pressure tax collection and widen the government's fiscal deficit this year.
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No other company can come close to matching it in lawsuit headaches and embarrassing exposés chronicling maltreatment of its employees, contractor drivers and competitors, and deceiving local law enforcement, tax collection and other government agencies.
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Amazon (AMZN) told third-party sellers that beginning on April 1 it will collect sales tax on shipments to Pennsylvania, the second state, after Washington, where the e-commerce giant is instituting Marketplace Tax Collection.
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Now, job cuts in oil fields and the fabrication plants that support drilling activities have worsened a drag on sales and income tax receipts, which account for more than half of the state's total tax collection.
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The finance ministry also said in its work plan at the annual meeting of parliament that it would draw up a database of individuals' income and property holdings, part of its effort to improve tax collection.
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In addition to demanding a good look at CPEC contracts to make sure Pakistan can afford them, the fund is likely to push for further devaluation of the rupee, increased tax collection and higher interest rates.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia will sharply lift its tax collection and work with other nations to develop new rules to tackle the "aggressive" tax planning by multinational corporations, the Southeast Asian country's finance minister said on Wednesday.
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We expect budgetary performance to improve in 2016, due to higher revenues from the funding system in 2016 (EUR2bn), higher expected tax collection, and lower interest expenses (by EUR11033bn) after the restructuring of the state loans.
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Greece's emergency lenders have insisted on an overhaul of the tax collection system — long known as one of the most flawed in Europe — as a condition of 290 billion euros in EU and IMF bailout funding.
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For now, the finance ministry will put an emphasis on better tax collection, as it does not expect prices for oil, Russia's key exports, to rise above $60 per barrel in the foreseeable future, Siluanov said.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) - The former finance director of Allentown, Pennsylvania, admitted on Monday that he participated in a scheme to steer a city contract for delinquent tax collection to a partnership that had made campaign donations.
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It could also mean incredible headaches for the majority of third-party sellers who never comply with various state laws on sales tax collection — if more states follow Massachusetts and demand unpaid taxes from those sellers.
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But executives warned that profits for teapots are still razor thin and smaller operators are struggling with the lingering issues of more stringent tax collection and higher crude prices, potentially requiring some to close for good.
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According to data compiled by the center right American Action Forum, the recent decision to lift tariffs to 22019 percent on items under Section 301 List 1 amounts to an extra $11 billion in tax collection.
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Poland was allowed to leave the procedure shortly before the conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party swept to power last year, promising to tax large corporations and improve tax collection to finance a wide social spending agenda.
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Last year, Google agreed to pay 130 million pounds ($164 million) in back taxes to settle a probe by Britain's tax authority, while Thailand is studying plans to toughen tax collection rules for internet and technology firms.
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Tax collection from non-financial institutions should be improved and the authorities need to adopt a progressive tax system where rich individuals and non-financial corporations pay more as a percent their combined income from all sources.
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"Thanks to higher revenue from robust tax collection, we're expanding the size of fiscal expenditure to add jobs, and to boost the dynamism of the economy," finance minister Kim Dong-yeon said at an embargoed news briefing.
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The Online Sales Simplicity and Small Business Relief Act would shield Americans from the worst types of arbitrary and retroactive tax collection schemes on online purchases that have been unleashed from the Supreme Court decision in Wayfair.
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Adding to his challenges, Fitch Ratings said the divided political landscape will make it harder for the president to reverse declining tax collection that the agency cited in April when it revised Guatemala's sovereign outlook to negative.
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Last year, Google agreed to pay 130 million pounds ($165.7 million) in back taxes to settle a probe by Britain's tax authority, while Thailand is studying plans to toughen tax collection rules for internet and technology firms.
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Stronger tax collection and a prudent fiscal policy are tactics designed to shield Russia from external shocks that in 2014, when Moscow annexed Crimea, battered the rouble and paved the road for two years of economic recession.
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Advocacy group Move On has launched a petition calling on Governor Andrew Cuomo to not just forgive tax collection until business normalizes but to also return the sales tax amounts that businesses have already submitted so far.
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"Economic growth that is below the government's projections could create problems for reaching the tax collection goal and therefore the financing of the 2020 budget," Echavarria told economic committees from the upper and lower houses of Congress.
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From the start, it was Rajoy's refusal to negotiate a more equitable tax collection regime, or even to acknowledge that the current arrangement might be a problem, that led to the election of Catalonia's pro-independence majority.
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Unlike the FDP, who have cautioned against proposals by French President Emmanuel Macron for deeper fiscal integration in the single currency bloc, the Greens support common tax collection and an investment pact within the 19-country euro zone.
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Tax Department General Manager Delina Ibrahimaj said the authorities expected an increase in collection of value-added tax (VAT) of up to 15% and an improvement in income tax collection, citing experience from countries with internet-based systems.
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"We wanted to make the point of what the impact of tax collection and remittances would be if we were able to collect on behalf of our community here," Airbnb public policy manager Josh Meltzer told the paper.
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In an interview in Veja magazine on Saturday, Finance Minister Henrique Meirelles said that growing confidence on the outlook for the economy in the wake of Rousseff's impeachment could boost tax collection by 45 billion reais this year.
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The adjustment relies on higher mobilisation of non-oil revenues, through removal of tax exemptions, a wider tax base, improved tax collection, the removal of oil and electricity subsidies, and structural fiscal reforms, including the rationalisation of spending.
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It would also prevent states from requiring online retailers with less than $10 million in sales to collect their sales taxes until the states come up with a compact simplifying their sales-tax collection that's approved by Congress.
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Amazon's low-cost sales tax collection system, coupled with Amazon's extensive and efficient fulfillment and distribution networks, give Amazon such a large cost advantage that it becomes, or reinforces its position as the pre-eminent online retail platform.
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Ireland's tax collection was 0.5 percent below target in the year to the end of June up from a shortfall of 2.4 percent reported two months earlier, a level that had raised questions about the government's spending plans.
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But because of the new Supreme Court decision, states may decide to go after individual sellers, freeing Amazon from the complicated tax collection process in different states, said Matt Boch, an attorney from law firm Dover Dixon Horne.
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Tax and fees collection remains problematic, although the replacement of part of the property tax on primary homes with national subsidies drafted by the 2016 Stability Law will partly provide relief to municipalities facing low tax collection rates.
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HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan 11 (Reuters) - The former finance director of Allentown, Pennsylvania, admitted on Monday that he participated in a scheme to steer a city contract for delinquent tax collection to a partnership that had made campaign donations.
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Members of Congress pay lip service to ideas like filing taxes on a postcard, but they continue to perpetuate the current system of mass April immiseration by preventing the most obvious and effective way to simplify tax collection.
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While he has said that he will follow the law, he made clear to lawmakers last week that he believes releasing Mr. Trump's tax returns would be a violation of privacy and would politicize the tax collection agency.
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Weaker than expected tax collection — which could be related to expectations by taxpayers of tax cuts later this year — have also resulted in a larger than expected budget deficit this year and a bigger shortfall compared with 2016.
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"When it comes to the state's cultivation tax collection system ... we will not be ready on day one," state Senator Mike McGuire said while chairing an oversight hearing on cannabis taxes and regulatory timelines in the capital, Sacramento.
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"With respect to interstate sales tax collection, the No Regulation Without Representation Act unjustifiably pre-empts state authority," Peters said, arguing that the legislation Goodlatte is supporting would unfairly bar states from regulating commerce within their own borders.
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" Given their exposure to domestic factors, importance to the banking system and tax collection, and compounding growth effects, Morgan Stanley equity analyst James E. Faucette is looking to names like Visa, Mastercard and PayPal to emerge as "national champions.
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DIG IN OR FLIP-FLOP As finance minister in the outgoing government until May, Babis played tough with the EU to win an exception to value-added tax collection that he said would prevent tax fraud in fuel trade.
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Writing for the majority, Justice Anthony Kennedy said: Remote sellers can avoid the regulatory burdens of tax collection and can offer de facto lower prices caused by the widespread failure of consumers to pay the tax on their own.
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Asked how he would fund such social spending, Khan has vowed to double Pakistan's woefully low tax collection rates - the country has one of the world's lowest tax-to-GDP ratios - by reforming the "corrupt" Federal Bureau of Revenue.
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Trump said repeatedly during the presidential campaign that he wouldn't release his tax returns because the IRS is auditing him, though the tax-collection agency has said that an audit doesn't prevent people from releasing their own tax information.
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Additionally, the legislation would prevent states from requiring online retailers with less than $10 million in sales to collect their sales taxes until the states come up with a compact simplifying their sales-tax collection that's approved by Congress.
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It has also given online marketplace eBay, Amazon's bigger and more established rival in Australia, the opportunity to swoop in and capture that goodwill, building its first automatic tax collection and payment system and wooing local customers with discounts.
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When the Taliban infiltrate at will, shoot officials in broad daylight, and run a vast tax-collection system up to the gates of the governor's compound, how strong can the central government's authority be, even in its own backyard?
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Sofia was targeting a one-off deficit of 2.1% of GDP mainly due to a $1.26 billion fighter jet deal it signed with the United States, but better tax collection and some spending cuts helped reduce the anticipated shortfall.
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Mark Haden, chair of Canada's leading psychedelic research organization, has a bold plan not only for licensed trip sitters and shamans, but goes so far as to imagine tax collection from the sale of mushrooms and MDMA, sold in plain packaging.
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Republican Representative Barbara Comstock said new leadership is needed to replace IRS Commissioner John Koskinen due to failures to secure Americans' sensitive information from malicious intrusions, escalating a line of attack from Republicans who frequently criticize the federal tax collection service.
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Economists have said a budget was vital to reforming public finances, but that more needs to be done to improve growth and investor confidence in the country: reform the heavily subsidized electricity sector, boost tax collection and upgrade crumbling infrastructure.
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"It is something of a puzzle why at such a high economic growth rate, value-added tax collection was disappointing and the corporate profit tax fell in nominal terms," the head of Romania's Fiscal Council, Ionut Dumitru, said on Monday.
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To hear proponents of legalization in California tell it, a yes vote here would allow the same benefits seen in Colorado — a sharp reduction in drug arrests and a large increase in tax collection — but on a scale many times larger.
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"We wanted to make the point of what the impact of tax collection and remittances would be if we were able to collect on behalf of our community here," said Josh Meltzer, who handles public policy for Airbnb in the Northeast.
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As finance minister from 21.3-2017, Babis improved tax collection and presided over a rebound that helped rein in a fiscal deficit which had breached the EU ceiling of 3 percent of GDP in two of the previous four years.
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Traveling in two minibuses during the morning rush hour, they were passing through a busy intersection known as the Ex-Control Junction when the blast ripped through the traffic, blowing out a wall of a police station and tax collection center.
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Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has made it one of his priorities to boost tax collection in the nation whose overall tax take is the lowest out of 36 nations in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
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"The government promised to fill the gap with increased tax collection but we do not see a big improvement," said Piotr Poplawski, a senior economist at ING BSK who forecasts the deficit will reach 3.5 percent of GDP next year.
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He also said he was committed to keeping the budget deficit at the European Union's ceiling of 3 percent of gross domestic product, and that if tax collection does not improve he could thin out the number of public sector employees.
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Sri Lanka's 2017 budget plan will seek to boost revenue through a capital gain tax on properties, simplify tax collection and offer incentives to spur exports, though progress will depend on the coalition government agreeing on economic priorities, analysts say.
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As finance minister, Morawiecki has overseen a rise in value-added tax collection of more than 20 percent so far this year, helping fund the government's popular child-subsidy program, cheaper medicine for the elderly, and a cut in the retirement age.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell on Thursday, with the Dow slumping for an eighth straight decline as industrials wobbled again on trade war concerns while Amazon and other online retailers weakened after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on state sales tax collection.
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The Supreme Court, in its majority opinion, assumes software tools, similar to an existing one Amazon offers its Marketplace sellers, will step in to help simplify tax collection and the other cumbersome tasks that may arise as ripple effects of the ruling.
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In defiance of a quarter-century-old Supreme Court precedent, South Dakota tried to shore up its declining revenues by imposing sales-tax collection on far-flung stores doing more than $100,000 of business, or conducting more than 200 transactions, in the state.
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WARSAW, March 13 (Reuters) - Poland's tax collection must improve by roughly 12 billion zlotys ($3.2 billion) next year for the deficit to remain at the level recommended by the European Union, Deputy Finance Minister Leszek Skiba was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
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MEXICO CITY, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Canadian miners are seeking a meeting with Mexico's president to air grievances about issues ranging from the rule of law to aggressive tax collection, according to an unusually strident letter by an industry group published on Monday.
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The economy grew at an annual 2500 percent year-on-year in the three months to end-June, its slowest in three years, while tax collection is falling - a turnaround from a year ago when India boasted the fastest growth among major economies.
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The Brazilian program succeeded in increasing tax collection among retailers 21 percent, according to a research study by Joana Naritomi at the London School of Economics that analyzed the program's first four years and is scheduled to appear in the American Economic Review.
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However, the threat of instant death or the agonizing torment of facing the impending apocalypse without having sold one's possessions for distribution to those in need would, in all likelihood, prove far more compelling — and frightening — than any government tax collection agency.
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Facing elections next year, the government that took office last month is sticking with a law brought in by its left-wing predecessor to raise pensions by 246% and says it will boost tax collection and pare state spending to stop deficits ballooning.
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Improved tax collection lifted the surplus to 1.6 percent of GDP in the first four months of the year, putting it in line with government projections that the country is likely to end the year with a smaller deficit than the targeted 1.4 percent.
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The main risk factors that, individually or collectively, could trigger a rating action are: Positive: --Sustained improvements in tax collection and the budget process that enhance fiscal policy flexibility; --Higher investment and growth prospects; --Improvements in governance and human development indicators relative to peers.
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The fiscal changes will carry a loss of roughly 5.2 billion lei ($1.30 billion), which the finance ministry has said will be covered by better tax collection as well as a measure to cap contributions to a mandatory private pension scheme at their 2017 levels.
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A Senate Special Committee on Aging earlier this year released findings that older Americans lose about $2500 billion annually to financial exploitation including phony tax collection, identity theft, sending money to people pretending to be family relatives in trouble, or investing in phony companies.
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The Coalition for Romanian Development, a large group of foreign and domestic employers, said they opposed the replacement of the flat tax on income with a global income tax, arguing the flat tax has boosted budget revenue, reduced the black economy and eased tax collection.
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KPMG South Africa has been losing clients after its own investigation last year found flaws in work it did for the tax collection agency and the Gupta family, wealthy businessmen accused of using their friendship with former president Jacob Zuma to win government contracts.
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President Trump's pick to lead the Internal Revenue Service, Charles Rettig, said on Thursday that he would make it a priority to run the department without bias, an attempt to ease lawmakers' concerns that the tax collection agency could be weaponized for political purposes.
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MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's corporate and income tax collection for the current year is likely to fall for the first time in at least two decades, several senior tax officials told Reuters, amid a sharp fall in economic growth and cut in corporate tax rates.
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Hyatt involved a lawsuit brought in Nevada state court by a citizen of Nevada — and former citizen of California — against the California state tax collection agency, alleging that the California agency engaged in abusive audit and investigative practices in seeking to collect back taxes.
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"To cover all transactions taxed by a future FTT anyhow, a system of self-assessment by financial institutions will have to be put in place, either as an addition to a centralised system or as the core system of tax collection," the document said.
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Dar said Pakistan would cut its fiscal deficit to 3.8 percent of gross domestic product for the coming financial year, down from the 4.3 percent envisaged for this year, and helped by a planned rise in tax collection to 3.95 trillion rupees ($37.8 billion).
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The new law in Pennsylvania requires sales tax collection regardless of whether the merchant has a physical operation in the state, so if a small clothing business in Atlanta sends a dress to Philadelphia, it now has to charge and collect the 6 percent sales tax.
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"We preliminarily estimate that the gap, which must be covered through improved tax collection, so that the deficit stays below 3 percent of GDP, is at least 12 billion zlotys," Skiba said in a interview for daily Rzeczpospolita published on Tuesday, referring to next year's budget.
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If that list does grow long and Congress does pass new legislation that impacts small online merchants as much as big ones, it's possible that some Amazon merchants could become less popular with customers because their prices will rise to account for the new tax-collection rules.
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The findings by the Treasury Department's inspector general mark the end of a political firestorm that embroiled the I.R.S. in controversy, led to the ouster of its commissioner and prompted accusations the tax collection agency was being used as a political weapon by the Obama administration.
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Even more damaging, the lurid tales of corruption and intrigue inside what was once an A.N.C. showcase of good governance contributed to sharp drops in the nation's tax collection: more than $6 billion short of what the government had expected in the previous two budget years.
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Several tax officers have told Reuters that faceless tax assessment is likely to reduce tax collection and raise pressure on officers already under stress to meet a lofty tax targets for the current fiscal year amid an economic slowdown and a cut in corporate tax rates.
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A smaller share now is made up of traditional projects, such as building schools or handing out food parcels, and more is "technical assistance", for example to streamline a country's tax code and strengthen tax collection, or to set up an insurance scheme to help farmers when crops fail.
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But the Brazilian state of São Paulo is so sure its lottery increases tax collection that it grants citizens who give their taxpayer number when making a purchase not just a chance to win a prize, but a rebate of 30% of the sales taxes they have paid.
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A report compiled this summer by the Center for American Progress concluded that obtaining DACA protection raised recipients' wages by 69 percent on average, and it stands to reason that losing it would cause a large-scale reversal with concomitant negative effects for GDP growth, productivity, and tax collection.
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On Saturday, King Abdullah urged his government "to lead a comprehensive, rational, national dialogue to reach a consensus on the draft income tax law that does not fatigue the public, combats evasion and improves efficiency of tax collection," according to a statement issued by the Royal Hashemite Court.
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The Pakistani rupee is shaky, tax collection is scandalously low (last year, in a country of 200 million, fewer than a million people paid any taxes) and Pakistan was recently returned to an international "gray list" for failing to curb terrorism financing, making foreign transactions more complicated and expensive.
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By the end of the 10-year budget period, such spending — for law enforcement, diplomacy, environmental protection, scientific research, justice, arts and humanities, tax collection and entire executive branch departments — would be lower as a share of the economy than in records dating back more than 50 years.
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"As an original matter, there is no valid reason to allow a state to impose regulatory tax-collection responsibilities on an out-of-state retailer without either a physical presence or a voice in the jurisdiction," wrote the groups, which are represented by former Solicitor General Paul Clement.
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Federal tax revenues rose in June as job creation improved, data showed earlier on Wednesday, but proposed changes in Congress to a tax debt amnesty program, if confirmed, would also cause a "significant" reduction in estimates for tax collection this year, Finance Minister Henrique Meirelles said last week.
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Yet successive Greek governments have also dragged their feet on making changes that would boost the economy, including shrinking the bloated official payroll, cutting rampant corruption between privileged businessmen and the state, and, most dauntingly, improving tax collection among a population that has a history of evading taxes.
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The aid-dependent central African nation now has to rely on domestic tax collection and modest revenues from coffee and tea exports, after key donors, such as the European Union, cut direct financial support to the government over accusations of human rights violations and a crackdown on opponents, which Burundi rejects.
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The increase in a country plagued by corruption and tax evasion is down to better tax collection rather than a stronger economy, though, and firms say they are being targeted by over-zealous officials whose demands on time and money are preventing them from investing in expansion for the future.
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"Given the strictness of Taliban regarding implementation of their rules and regulations, I think they raise more from tax collection than the Afghan government," said Mohammaddin, a resident of the district outside Kunduz city, which is largely under Taliban control despite repeated operations by government forces to try to push the insurgents back.
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Government officials agreed to reduce subsidies for fuel in February as part of an assistance package with the I.M.F. The agreement also included increased spending on social services and infrastructure and improved tax collection in an effort to modernize the economy of Haiti, one of the poorest nations in the Western Hemisphere.
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Though Airbnb&aposs position has evolved over the past few years on tax collection practices and its obligation to keep bad actors off its platform, the company still maintains that it is an internet service provider and therefore shouldn&apost be regulated like a hotelier or subject to the same legal liabilities.
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The Social Security 22 Act puts Social Security back into balance over the next 75 years by raising payroll tax rates so gradually that few would notice - one-tenth of 1 percent per year - and by adding new payroll taxes to wages over $400,000; currently, tax collection stops at $132,900 of annual income. (reut.rs/23HJwldz).
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Furthermore, companies like Apple, which has been drawn into a nasty dispute with the European Union over the low level of taxes it pays to Ireland, might not engage in elaborate overseas tax maneuvers if the American code were straightforward, and if the United States and tax haven countries harmonized their rules, making tax collection more effective.
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Under guidance issued to the Town of Clarkstown in Rockland County by the New York State Comptroller's office in 1985 — the last time state and local tax deductions were at risk — New York residents are allowed to prepay property taxes if the municipal tax collection agency has been issued a warrant to collect the tax levy.
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"It is no secret that we have been vocal supporters of this very approach in New York City — in the form of comprehensive and effective regulations that provide those key protections for New York City hosts and outline clear rules for safety, tax collection, and enforcement against those who would seek to take advantage of our platform to operate illegal hotels," Lehane wrote.
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Unlike the perennial inaction on grandiose promises of ethics reform or procurement oversight, the Legislature's failure this year to approve even a collection of modest, apolitical proposals — namely, a reauthorization of speed safety cameras at New York City schools, and an extension of some local governments' tax collection abilities — seemed to signal a new level of partisan intractability and to invite a special incredulity.
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"We discussed the numbers, accounts and timeframes to achieve within the arc of the legislature our proposals for families and businesses: dismantling the Fornero law, (introducing a) flat tax, fiscal peace and closure of the disputes with (state tax collection agency) Equitalia, less bureaucracy for firms and VAT holders, elimination of the oldest levies on petrol … (and) a major national plan for ordinary and extraordinary maintenance (of infrastructure)," ANSA reported.
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And if you think about it right now, when you and I pay that dollar on taxes, first we pay an accountant, then it goes to some sort of tax-collection government agency, then it gets appropriated by a legislature who weighs it in 23 different ridiculous ways, then it goes to a giant social service agency that's wildly inefficient, huge union contracts, and then how much of that on the dollar makes it to the person who needs food stamps?
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Expect this to continue over next few months * Moody's on India - Government's reform agenda remains on track, supported by a prudent budget * Moody's on India - Believe that in medium term, demonetization will strengthen institutional framework by reducing tax avoidance and corruption, which is credit positive * Moody's on India - Bank deposits will rise only about 1% to 2%, compared to before demonetization, with cash being main means of retail transactions * Moody's on India - Government's revenues may benefit if old notes that are deposited into banking system provide information about economic activity that can be used to enhance tax collection Source text for Eikon:
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