Sentences with phrase «public tax coffers»

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The draft, seen by Bloomberg, was circulated on Friday and outlines how a targeted levy on gross revenues would increase the tax bill digital giants face, as the bloc seeks to raise money from an industry it says provides less than it should to public coffers.

In cases where excess wealth was held until death, he advocated its apprehension by the state on a progressive scale: «Indeed, it is difficult to set bounds to the share of a rich man's estates which should go at his death to the public through the agency of the State, and by all means such taxes should be granted, beginning at nothing upon moderate sums to dependents, and increasing rapidly as the amounts swell, until of the millionaire's hoard, at least the other half comes to the privy coffer of the State.»

Supporters of the city measure maintained the surcharge is not a tax, since the extra nickel would go into store owners» pockets, not public coffers.

They have also rejected efforts from bag manufacturers and distributors to characterize the surcharge as a «tax,» noting that extra dime would go into store owners» pockets not the public coffers.

But he noted the city introduced the surcharge as a fee payable to merchants rather than as a tax that went into public coffers because it would have required Albany's approval.

First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Mr Joseph Osei Owusu, in his opening remarks at a workshop organised by the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) admonished the public to contribute to the development of the country by paying their taxes to the state coffers.

And Tuesday's interminable «expose» of state - level tax - credit scholarship programs certainly deepens one's impression that the writer (and, presumably, her editors) is in love with anything that smacks of «public dollars» or «public schools» and at war with anything that might be seen as diverting even a penny from state coffers into the hands of parents to educate their kids at schools of their choice.

Currently, 17 states have laws that generate private school vouchers through a tax - credit mechanism and that divert up to $ 1 billion annually from public coffers.

Leaders in both camps have been debating charter funding in North Carolina for years, particularly since a 2010 amendment by Democrats in the legislature denied charters access to certain funding sources, such as sales tax revenues, gifts and grants traditionally bound for public school coffers.

Early in the twenty - first century, Louisiana, one of the poorest states in the United States, redirected millions in tax dollars from the public coffers in an effort to become the top location site globally for the production of Hollywood films and television series.

First, the Conservatives unveiled their long - promised family tax - and - benefit package, a grab bag of measures expected to carve $ 4.6 billion in revenue out of public coffers.

Compare tax to the lottery, another form of wealth - pooling for the public coffers.