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Your Money: Many happy (tax) returns! Two hundred years of income tax may not be everyone's idea of something to celebrate, yet 100 people a day are visiting the Revenue's birthday exhibition. Paul Slade reports
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When it comes to those aspects of modern life worth celebrating,
few people would raise a cheer for income tax. But now that the tax
has reached its 200th birthday, the Inland Revenue is throwing a
party.
Despite its site in the mid-basement level of Somerset House, the
Revenue's Bicentenary of Income Tax exhibition is pulling in about
100 visitors a day. Attractions include the Tax Trivia game, and a
chance to review all your favourite self-assessment TV commercials.
The exhibition is aimed at everyone, from parties of
schoolchildren to tax professionals. Nigel East, one of the
organisers, ...
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Ax the tax. (income tax abolition; includes related article on the history of the income tax)(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: National Review
; ...imagine for a moment an America without an income tax. April 15 is no longer a day of dread...political foundations of the modern-day income-tax system are beginning to crumble. On November...priority was the total replacement of the income tax. ``On a scale of zero to ten,'' he ...
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 "The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)")
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County to study income tax vote.(Government)(Hearings will be open for residents to discuss a Lane County income tax Two hearings will give the public an opportunity to comment on the proposal)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
; ...residents can speak for or against an income tax for public safety at two hearings next...only one in the state with a personal income tax. Lane also would become the second county with a business income tax. Multnomah has had that tax for years...
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High peaks, deep troughs.(Editorials)(Income tax increase would aggravate imbalances)(Editorial)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
; ...revenues, a proposal to raise the state income tax was preordained. In Oregon's tax system...already relies more heavily on the personal income tax than any other state, obtaining 68.5...total revenue from this source. Oregon's income tax is essentially a flat tax, with the top...
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County may revive, and double, money plea.(Government)(The board is considering putting the failed income tax measure back on the ballot)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
; ...boils down to this: Vote for the county income tax in May or watch 240 criminals be released...voters' narrow defeat of a public-safety income tax proposal in November, the commissioners...vote next month to put an even larger income tax on the May ballot. The November measure...
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Public safety costs money. WHO PAYS FOR IT?(Government)(Lane County is proposing a local income tax. How you feel about it may depend on what you earn.)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
; ...voters approve Lane County's first-ever income tax for public safety in November, much of...County taxpayers in 2004 for the state income tax, according to state data. Just as the state income tax relies heavily on the state's top earners...
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Time to End the Corporate Income Tax.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Reason
; The corporate income tax--a feature of the U.S. tax system for...flawed, however, and the corporate income tax is one of its most serious flaws. Through...decision brings with it the corporate income tax, which effectively takes one-third...
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 "Larne Times (Larne, Northern Ireland)")
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Beggs pledge to fight against local income tax proposal.
Newspaper article from: Larne Times (Larne, Northern Ireland)
; ...to fight any move to introduce a local income tax in Northern Ireland. Roy Beggs Jnr (pictured...rejection of any attempt to introduce a local income tax. Mr Beggs said, There is a real concern...property-based charge would be replaced by a local income tax. Mr Beggs said, My party ...
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Clobbered everywhere.(Editorials)(County income tax had no support base)(Editorial)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
; ...Register-Guard Lane County's proposed income tax for public safety fared best in the district...south Eugene district voted against the income tax on the May 15 ballot. Voters rejected...returns reveal no base for an encore. The income tax passed in only six of the county's 83...
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State's income tax system aggravates economic shortfall.(tax policy of California)
Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal
; ...growth and extreme variability of state income-tax revenue. Policymakers seeking to fix...degree of progressivity in the state income tax. By reforming the tax to make it less...relies far more heavily on the individual income tax as a revenue source than do most other...
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 "Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)")
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Question 1 targets state income tax; Opponents say catastrophe would result.(LOCAL NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
; ...if they voted to eliminate the state income tax on Election Day. But opponents who encompass...who is leading calls to eliminate the income tax, said she is not surprised by the force...require the state to eliminate half the income tax, starting in January, and then eliminate...
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