Governments will, often in good faith, establish government agencies to regulate an industry.

Governments will often try to disguise the true rate of inflation through a variety of techniques.

Governments have had the tendency to " bail out " poorly run businesses, often due to the sensitivity of job losses, when economically, it may be better to let the business fold.

Governments often say they have no political prisoners, only prisoners held under the normal criminal law.

Governments tend to issue only bonds, whereas companies often issue either equity or bonds.

Governments of developing nations often regard developed nations that encourage immigration or " guest workers " as appropriating human capital that is more rightfully part of the developing nation and required to further its economic growth.

Governments often define and regulate organized group lobbying that has become influential.

Governments often define and regulate organized group lobbying.

Governments sometimes spread false information to assist them with aims such as going to war ; the " Iraq dossier " is an example of this ; these often come under the heading of black propaganda.

Governments in mixed economies often provide environmental protection, maintenance of employment standards, a standardized welfare system, and maintenance of competition.

Governments often attempt to conceal information from other governments and the public.

Governments often initially claim that cameras are meant to be used for traffic control, but many of them end up using them for general surveillance.

Governments often keep prices of basic grains at such artificially low levels that subsistence producers cannot accumulate enough capital to make investments to improve their production.

Governments often require contracts of adhesion with private entities for licensing purposes, such as with Financial Industry Regulatory Authority for stock market trading in the 1938 Maloney Act amendments to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

Governments will often issue standards for purchases by government agencies ( e. g. Canada's Canadian General Standards Board CAN / CGSB 44. 15M on " Straight Stacking Chair, Steel " or CAN / CGSB 44. 232-2002 on " Task Chairs for Office Work with Visual Display Terminal ").

Governments and large businesses often use charge cards to pay for and keep track of expenses related to official business ; these are often referred to as purchasing cards.

Governments and companies often try to use the cluster effect to promote a particular place as good for a certain type of business.

Governments often place restrictions on the purchase of large quantities of chemicals that can be used in the production of illicit drugs, usually requiring licences or permits to ensure that the purchaser has a legitimate need for them.

They may also be members of Guilds which sets up apprentice programs ( often sponsored by the Governments in these countries as highly crafted firearms are important items in the export trade ), supervise training, and conduct exams where the Journeyman-level Gunsmiths submit sample firearms of their own work in order to be admitted the Guild membership.

Governments and market monitoring institutions ( such as the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ), and central banks ) often try to put policies and rules in place with the ostensible justification of safeguarding the interests of the market as a whole, claiming that the trading participants in financial markets are entangled in a web of dependencies arising from their interlinkage.

Governments often exclude such contributions from an employee's taxable income, while allowing employers to receive tax deductions for contributions to plan funds.

* Governments have often refused to disclose medical records of military personnel who have been used as experimental subjects.

Governments hostile to Christianity often accept well-qualified teachers, doctors, computer technicians and engineers into their countries to work, even if these men and women are Christians.

Governments use different kinds of taxes and vary the tax rates.

Governments faced with the need to fund high levels of expenditure, but with limited sources of tax revenue, suspended convertibility of currency into gold on a number of occasions in the 19th century.

Governments justify the use of Pigouvian Taxes saying that these taxes help the market reach an efficient outcome because this tax bridges the gap between marginal social costs and marginal private costs.

The legalization of Marijuana would increase much-needed tax revenue for the Local, State, and possibly Federal Governments, but is unlikely particularly in a county that has prohibited the sale of alcohol.

* Governments tax income: the grey rectangle that says " tax revenue "

Governments act in various ways as actors in the GFS, primarily through their finance ministries: they pass the laws and regulations for financial markets, and set the tax burden for private players, e. g., banks, funds and exchanges.

Governments can reallocate income through transfer payments or by designing tax systems that treat high-income and low-income households differently.

In 2011 the proposed Manchester Airport City office and commercial space development abutting the airport became one of the Governments new low tax Enterprise Zones.

Governments cannot print money, and can only tax or borrow to meet their spending commitments.

Governments also influence behavior more subtly through incentives and disincentives built into economic policy and tax policy, for instance, and have done so for centuries.

Governments may impose tax on corporations as separately from their owners.

Governments such as the United States government provide a heavy public subsidy to petroleum companies, with major tax breaks at virtually every stage of oil exploration and extraction, including for the costs of oil field leases and drilling equipment.

Governments establish the tax advantages to encourage private individuals to contribute money when it is considered to be in the public interest.

The Revenue Society has defined revenue stamps as " ... stamps, whether impressed, adhesive or otherwise, issued by or on behalf of International, National or Local Governments, their Licensees or Agents, and indicate that a tax, duty or fee has been paid or prepaid or that permission has been granted.

Governments would enforce the payment of the tax by making unstamped documents unenforcable in court.

Governments cannot print money, and can only tax or borrow to meet their spending commitments.

Governments usually create tax holidays as incentives for business investment.

Governments ( the lessors ) have thus frequently over history resorted to the services of an entrepreneurial financier ( the tenant ) to whom they lease or assign the right to collect and retain the whole of the tax revenue due to the state in return for his payment into the Treasury of fixed sums ( rent ) in exchange.

Governments with the power to tax also issue revenue bonds, but restrict the debt service funds to only those funds from the governmental enterprise that generates these revenues.

Governments often see that losing corporate tax revenue is a small price to pay if jobs are created and knowledge and technology is gained to boost the country's human capital.

Governments use withholding tax as a means to combat tax evasion, and sometimes impose additional withholding tax requirements if the recipient has been delinquent in filing tax returns, or in industries where tax evasion is perceived to be common.