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DeKalb's budget for 1961 is a record one and carries with it the promise of no tax increase to make it balance.
That such expansion can be obtained without a raise in taxes is due to growth of the tax digest and sound fiscal planning on the part of the board of commissioners, headed by Chairman Charles O. Emmerich who is demonstrating that the public trust he was given was well placed, and other county officials.
Prosperity for the whole nation is certainly preferred to a tax cut.
Bostitch, Inc. is approximately half way through a 10-year exemption of their real estate tax.
The wisdom of granting such tax exemptions is another matter, but this particular instance is, in my opinion, completely satisfactory.
With our current $3 per hundred tax rate, it is safe to assume that this will qualify when you suggest a community should `` try to develop a modest industrial plant '' as the best way to meet these problems.
In order to attract additional industry that is compatible with this community it is all the more important to present to the industrial prospect an orderly balance in the tax structure.
Mr. Richard Preston, executive director of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, in his remarks to the Governors Conference on Industrial Development at Providence on October 8, 1960, warned against the fallacy of attempting to attract industry solely to reduce the tax rate or to underwrite municipal services such as schools when he said: `` If this is the fundamental reason for a community's interest or if this is the basic approach, success if any will be difficult to obtain ''.
The responsibility is still going to be there whether they pay for a VA hospital or the tax dollar is spent for the state hospital.
-- Your July 26 editorial regarding the position of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy on prospective tax relief for DuPont stockholders is based on an erroneous statement of fact.
The reasons are obvious: ( 1 ) the state is buying in quantity, and ( 2 ) it has no federal excise or state sales tax to pay.
The location of the latter now is determined for tax purposes at the time of registration, and it is now accepted practice to consider a motor vehicle as being situated where it is garaged.
The Smithfield tax assessor, in turn, claims the tax under the provision of law `` and all other tangible personal property situated or being in any town, in or upon any place of storage shall be taxed to such person in the town where said property is situated ''.
It is difficult to tabulate exactly what was meant in each individual situation, but the conclusion may be drawn that 21 towns do not assess movable personal property, and of the remainder only certain types are valued for tax purposes.
It is known that at least five towns ( Barrington, Bristol, Narragansett, Newport and Westerly ) place some value on some boats for tax purposes.
Of all advantages, probably none is more important than the elimination of tax anticipation notes.
Sacrifice will have to be made in some cases, but it is to the municipality's advantage to finance the change-over for a short period of time rather than pay interest on tax anticipation notes indefinitely.

tax and pecuniary
A tax may be defined as a " pecuniary burden laid upon individuals or property to support the government a payment exacted by legislative authority.

tax and burden
The editorial concerned legislative proposals to ease the tax burden on DuPont stockholders, in connection with the United States Supreme Court ruling that DuPont must divest itself of its extensive General Motors stock holdings.
It is an averaging device intended to ease the tax burden of fluctuating income ; ;
The obverse of the coin contains a picture of the liberty cap which symbolizes the liberation of the people from the tax burden.
In exchange, the szlachta's tax burden was reduced and they would no longer be required to pay for military expeditions expenses outside Poland.
Diocletian's expansion of the army and civil service meant that the Empire's tax burden grew.
Many specialists claim that it is impossible to advance significant development programs with such a little public sector ( the tax burden in the United States is around 25 % of the GDP and in other developed countries of the EU it can reach around 50 %, like in Sweden ).
The conflicts with Spain and in Ireland dragged on, the tax burden grew heavier, and the economy was hit by poor harvests and the cost of war.
Most of the tax burden, namely two thirds, is levied by the municipalities.
Government gives many incentives in the form of tax deductions and credits, which can be used to reduce the lifetime tax burden.
Necker realized that the country's extremely regressive tax system subjected the lower classes to a heavy burden, while numerous exemptions existed for the nobility and clergy.
The large inflow of official assistance to FSM allows it to run a substantial trade deficit and to have a much lighter tax burden than other states in the region ( 11 % of GDP in FSM compared to 18 %- 25 % elsewhere ).
The expanded welfare state of Finland from 1970 and 1990 increased the public sector employees and spending and the tax burden imposed on the citizens.
It seemed to shift the tax burden from rich to poor, as it was based on the number of people living in a house rather than its estimated price.
The nobles did not escape assessment, but they obtained the right to appoint their own capitation tax assessors, which allowed them to escape most of the burden ( in one calculation, they escaped ⅞ of it )..
The pays de taille personelle ( basically, Pays d ' élection, the bulk of France and Aquitaine ) secured the ability to assess the capitation tax proportionally to the taille-which effectively meant adjusting the burden heavily against the lower classes.
To give people more incentives to participate in the market, they reduced the tax burden in comparison with the late Ming, and replaced the corvée system with a head tax used to hire labourers.
A simpler, more streamlined tax code adopted in 2001 reduced the tax burden on people and dramatically increased state revenue.
Workers petitioned the government about their poor working conditions and the burden of tax they had to bear.
Tax Freedom Day is the first day of the year in which a nation as a whole has theoretically earned enough income to fund its annual tax burden.
In 2010, Alaska had the lowest total tax burden, earning enough to pay all their tax obligations by March 26.
Connecticut had the heaviest tax burden — Tax Freedom Day there arrived April 27.

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Large quantities of high speed fiber links were laid, and the State and local governments gave tax exemptions to technology firms.
The capitation clause of Article I of the United States Constitution, reads " o capitation, or other direct, tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
On July 3, 2007, the Court ( through the original three-judge panel ) ruled ( 1 ) that the taxpayer's compensation was received on account of a non-physical injury or sickness ; ( 2 ) that gross income under section 61 of the Internal Revenue Code does include compensatory damages for non-physical injuries, even if the award is not an " accession to wealth ," ( 3 ) that the income tax imposed on an award for non-physical injuries is an indirect tax, regardless of whether the recovery is restoration of " human capital ," and therefore the tax does not violate the constitutional requirement of Article I, Section 9, Clause 4, that capitations or other direct taxes must be laid among the states only in proportion to the population ; ( 4 ) that the income tax imposed on an award for non-physical injuries does not violate the constitutional requirement of Article I, Section 8, Clause 1, that all duties, imposts and excises be uniform throughout the United States ; ( 5 ) that under the doctrine of sovereign immunity, the Internal Revenue Service may not be sued in its own name.
Supporters of the excise argued there was a difference between taxation without representation in colonial America, and a tax laid by the elected representatives of the American people.
In its early stages, the Court held the view that interstate commerce was wholly immune from state taxation " in any form ," " even though the same amount of tax should be laid on ( intrastate ) commerce ," This position gave way in time to a less uncompromising but formal approach, according to which, for example, the Court would invalidate a state tax levied on gross receipts from interstate commerce, or upon the " freight carried " in interstate commerce, but would allow a tax merely measured by gross receipts from interstate commerce as long as the tax was formally imposed upon franchises, or "' in lieu of all taxes upon ( the taxpayer's ) property ,'" Dissenting from this formal approach in 1927, Justice Stone remarked that it was " too mechanical, too uncertain in its application, and too remote from actualities, to be of value.
Justice White's decision in Brushaber shows how the Sixteenth Amendment was written to prevent consideration of the direct effects of any income tax laid by Congress.
In 1978, Jude Wanniski published The Way the World Works, in which he laid out the central thesis of supply-side economics and detailed the failure of high tax-rate progressive income tax systems and U. S. monetary policy under Nixon in the 1970s.
: No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any State, except by a vote of two-thirds of both Houses.
New revenue laws were also enacted, which, by taxing inheritances, laid the groundwork for the contemporary Federal income tax.
His government laid the foundations of the Wheatbelt, and brought the state into line with the rest of Australia through an Income and Land tax, despite opposition from the conservative Legislative Council.
While property tax levels vary among municipalities in a province there is usually common property assessment or valuation criteria laid out in provincial legislation.
The speech laid out her proposals for “ a more balanced home rule package ” including greater financial accountability and new tax powers for the Scottish Parliament ( a cause that she had first championed when she led the Allander Series ) in order that the “ Union become a more comfortable home for all its members ”.
If the car is to be " laid up " for whatever reason, the tax disc must be surrendered and a SORN declaration completed to say that it is off the public roads.
Rzepin was given ownership of the adjacent forests before 14th century, which was confiscated in 1553 because of the wrongly laid tax by the town authorities.
The colonists ' objection to " internal " taxes did not mean that they would accept " external " taxes ; the colonial position was that any tax laid by Parliament for the purpose of raising revenue was unconstitutional.
Deciding all policies from military affairs, diplomacy, and down to education, he laid down Joseon's political system and tax laws, replaced Buddhism with Confucianism as national religion, moved the capital from Gaeseong to Hanyang ( present-day Seoul ), changed the kingdom's political system from fedualism to highly centralized bureaucracy, and wrote a code of laws that eventually became Joseon's constitution.
They laid claim to an inaccessible upland area and forced passing invaders to pay toll tax for passage towards India through the Khyber Pass.

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