Category: Tax
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The US Highway Trust Fund and Federal Fuel Tax
Table of Contents History Funding Sustainability Concerns Potential Alternatives Other Sources of Funding Conclusion: Observations and Thoughts Works Cited The Highway Trust Fund (HTF) is the main source of funding for American transportation programs. Despite a gradual increase in funding, HTF has shown signs of insolvency. The current paper provides an overview of the existing…
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Alberta Should Tax Its Way Out of the Hole by Lamphier
Summary This article appeared in the Edmonton Journal, and it offers suggestions on how to deal with Albertas revenue deficit. The author of this article is a business columnist who boasts of three decades experience. The article is authored in light of the recent six billion dollars revenue-deficit in Alberta province. This deficit is a…
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Alberta Should Tax Its Way Out of the Hole by Lamphier
Summary This article appeared in the Edmonton Journal, and it offers suggestions on how to deal with Albertas revenue deficit. The author of this article is a business columnist who boasts of three decades experience. The article is authored in light of the recent six billion dollars revenue-deficit in Alberta province. This deficit is a…
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How Taxes Affect Deadweight Loss?
Table of Contents Cause Taxes as Determinants of Deadweight Loss Challenges Deadweight Loss in the Framework of Economic Principles Works Cited Cause Deadweight loss is the loss in social surplus that occurs when a market produces an inefficient quantity (Hall and Lieberman 454). In other words, a deadweight loss can be characterized as the costs…
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Tax Benefits and Social Security
Lessons from the Stimulus Fight Barnes is skeptical on the effect of less than 40 % stimulus package in the form of tax cuts proposed by President Obamas administration. He admits that the process of Economic recovery has since delayed with the rates of unemployment registering a 9 percent. The writer predicts that the percentage…
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How Taxes Affect Deadweight Loss?
Table of Contents Cause Taxes as Determinants of Deadweight Loss Challenges Deadweight Loss in the Framework of Economic Principles Works Cited Cause Deadweight loss is the loss in social surplus that occurs when a market produces an inefficient quantity (Hall and Lieberman 454). In other words, a deadweight loss can be characterized as the costs…
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Tax Benefits and Social Security
Lessons from the Stimulus Fight Barnes is skeptical on the effect of less than 40 % stimulus package in the form of tax cuts proposed by President Obamas administration. He admits that the process of Economic recovery has since delayed with the rates of unemployment registering a 9 percent. The writer predicts that the percentage…
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Fiscal Policy: Federal Investment and Taxes
Table of Contents Introduction Main body Conclusion Works Cited Annotated Bibliography Footnotes Introduction Fiscal policy is one of the main methods of federal and state intervention in the economy aimed at reducing fluctuations in business cycles and ensuring a stable economic system in the short term. The main instruments of fiscal policy are the revenues…
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Fiscal Policy: Federal Investment and Taxes
Table of Contents Introduction Main body Conclusion Works Cited Annotated Bibliography Footnotes Introduction Fiscal policy is one of the main methods of federal and state intervention in the economy aimed at reducing fluctuations in business cycles and ensuring a stable economic system in the short term. The main instruments of fiscal policy are the revenues…
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Tax Reform: Corporate Tax Reduction and Its Consequences
The state, being the most important participant in corporate relations, performs the functions of not only a regulator of organizational, legal, and financial relations but also an active independent player in the financial market. The presence of state regulation allows not only to clarify and regulate the functioning of the corporate sector but also to…