Sentences with phrase «based consumption taxes»

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This tax is based on consumption — use less, pay less,» wrote one CEO.

After accounting for the impacts of measures and adjustments, the Sales Tax revenue base is projected to grow at an average annual rate of 4.3 per cent over the forecast period, roughly consistent with the average annual growth in nominal consumption of 4.0 per cent over this period.

Gas taxes are based on each state's rate and an average annual consumption of 656 gallons, sourced from API.org on March 6, 2018.

«As we all know, the GST / HST is a broad - based tax on consumption in Canada, and it's calculated on the final amount charged for a good or service,» said Daniel Lauzon.

Value - added tax (VAT): A form of consumption tax collected from businesses based on the value each firm adds to a product (rather than, say, gross sales).

Overall, the reform would shift from a worldwide system to a territorial system, based on where consumption occurs rather than where production takes place; from a system that allows interest deduction to one that largely ignores financial flows; and from a tax on income toward a tax on consumption.

Coopers Brewery managing director Tim Cooper said last week the only way for a long - term decline in mainstream beer consumption to be reversed in Australia would be if the Federal Government started taxing wine on a volumetric basis.

Revenue raising, it said, is most efficiently done through broad - based taxes such as those on income and consumption.

It looks at the tax production and value per acre of various geographies — downtowns, village centers, shopping malls, main streets, suburban strip corridors, and others, to demonstrate that when land consumption is considered, sustainable forms of development are often the best bet for the local tax base and revenue stream.

Put another way, increase the tax «base,» as it were, by keeping more money in private hands and people will spend more and make more and the government will enjoy increased revenues borne of that increased consumption.

Given the base - grade 718 - series Boxster manages to slip below the 7.0 L / 100 km ADR Combined fuel consumption figure for the first time (6.9 L / 100 km), it also dodges a bit of luxury car tax.

The consumption tax, which can be considered the equivalent of value added tax now in place in Europe and some other parts of the world, is applicable if anyone in Japan buys an ebook from an online retailer based within the country.

Progressivity could be embodied in the rate structure (with rates rising with income, as they do now), a basic exemption amount, and the choice of tax base (income, consumption, or another measure), rather than through specific provisions that treat different levels of income and consumption differently.

Based on a literature review of seven studies analyzing the GHG impacts of the carbon tax, they determined that «the effect of the tax was to reduce fuel consumption and GHG emissions 5 — 15 % in British Columbia.»

One way of doing that would be for the difference in the up front price of PHEVs to be covered by federal and state tax credits and by rebates designed to reward consumers for reducing consumption of petroleum based fuels and emissions.

Although standards may be the path of least resistance, many environmental economists view taxes and other market - based instruments as a more efficient means to internalize the external costs of consumption.

It gives conservatives a market - based tool to replace regulations and relieves them of a need to sign on to the climate change thesis by providing a true, conservative rationale — consumption taxes that ease the burden of taxation on work are pro-growth.

This is a consumption - based carbon tax, which excludes exports, and taxes the embodied carbon content inherent in energy consumed within the State.

In fact, modelling by Access Economics (PDF) suggests that the loss of income under a consumption - based carbon tax would be about half that from a production - based tax or ETS

Oakland should aim for a comprehensive carbon tax based on CO2 emissions or energy content that includes gasoline, oil, natural gas, and fossil fuel - fired electricity consumption by residential, commercial, and industrial customers.

The actual gas tax rate would be adjusted on an quarterly basis to maximize the likelihood of achieving annual oil consumption reductions of at least 3 % at the lowest net cost to society as determined by a panel of experts and / or the Oakland Oil and Energy Team recommended below.

Most «skeptics» have concluded, based on the available data, that the cost of «going to war» against CAGW (with carbon taxes, carbon rationing, top - down forced reductions in fossil fuel consumption, etc.) would be far greater than any «benefit» that might result, and would thus be «skeptical» of entering such a «war».

«The cost is essentially a consumption tax,» says Ken Perkins, founder of Retail Metrics, an independent retail research firm based in Swampscott, Mass. «Virtually every other major industrialized country has a version of that tax.