Most taxes were due on each year on 1 September, and levied from individual landowners by decuriones ( decurions ).

Most taxes have side effects that reduce economic welfare, either by mandating unproductive labor ( compliance costs ) or by creating distortions to economic incentives ( deadweight loss and perverse incentives ).

Most governments take revenue which exceeds that which can be provided by non-distortionary taxes or through taxes which give a double dividend.

Most of the income came from the ducal lands as well as tolls, and a few taxes.

Most importantly, these were taxes levied by the individual provinces, who serviced their own debt, and paid into the Generality coffers according to a repartition schedule last changed in 1616.

Most Medicare enrollees do not pay a monthly Part A premium, because they ( or a spouse ) have had 40 or more 3-month quarters in which they paid Federal Insurance Contributions Act taxes.

Most classical liberals, who believed in free trade and low taxes, opposed Confederation because they feared that it would result in Big Government.

Most of them were three-wheelers, which in many places qualified them for inexpensive taxes and licensing as motorcycles.

Most environmentally related taxes with implications for greenhouse gas emissions in OECD countries are levied on energy products and motor vehicles, rather than on emissions directly.

Most of Gates County's revenue comes from property taxes on personal property, with a small percentage coming from commercial sources.

Most of Shays ' compatriots were poor farmers angered by crushing debt and taxes.

Most of the prime commercial land had already been annexed by the City of Industry to escape taxes levied by the County on unincorporated areas.

Most taxes distort economic decisions.

Most countries in the world have sales taxes or value-added taxes at all or several of the national, state, county or city government levels.

Most churches were closed ; priests and ministers were discriminated against by authorities regardless of their faith, with forms of discrimination including high taxes, forced drafts into military service, arrests and deportations.

Most early advocacy groups described themselves as Single Taxers, and George endorsed this as being an accurate description of the philosophy's main political goal – the replacement of all taxes with a land value tax.

Most airlines charge additional taxes and fees on their tickets.

Most jurisdictions imposing payroll taxes require reporting quarterly and annually in most cases, and electronic reporting is generally required for all but small employers.

Most countries impose taxes on income earned or gains realized within that country regardless of the country of residence of the person or firm.

Most Puerto Rico residents do not pay federal income tax but do pay federal payroll taxes ( Social Security and Medicare ).

Most of the strategic Royal castles were placed into the keepership of Edward's nobles and English tax-collectors followed in their wake, imposing heavy taxes to fill their king's coffers, and corruptly exploiting the Scots populace to enrich themselves.

Most offer discount prices on select items and improved financing terms, along with the option to defer all payment ( generally financing requires a deposit of all applicable taxes and fees up-front ).

Most often, the term describes those who create within a context of the fine arts or ' high culture ', activities such as drawing, painting, sculpture, acting, dancing, writing, filmmaking, photography, and music — people who use imagination, talent, or skill to create works that may be judged to have an aesthetic value.

" Most ancient writers considered him a highly successful leader in guerrilla warfare, alert and quick, yet cautious — a man, moreover, whose personal bravery was rarely questioned in his own time.

Most psychologists and neuroscientists have not accepted these arguments — nevertheless it is clear that the relationship between a physical entity such as light and a perceptual quality such as color is extraordinarily complex and indirect, as demonstrated by a variety of optical illusions such as neon color spreading.

Most of the Lisp systems whose designs contributed to Common Lisp — such as ZetaLisp and Franz Lisp — used dynamically scoped variables in their interpreters and lexically scoped variables in their compilers.

Most soft sectored and all hard sectored drives would have also required an extra cut-out for the index hole — a harder modification.

Most of them-and many widows as well — lived in poverty.

Most Christians believe that the kosher food laws do not apply to them as they are no longer under the Law of Moses, and that, as Jesus taught in Mark 7: what you eat doesn't make you unclean but what comes out of a man's heart makes him unclean — although Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy have their own set of dietary observances.

Most of the film noirs of the classic period were similarly low-and modestly budgeted features without major stars — B movies either literally or in spirit.

Most Guineans, 99 %, are blacks — mostly Fula and Mandinka-speakers concentrated in the north and northeast, the Balanta and Papel, living in the southern coastal regions, and the Manjaco and Mancanha, occupying the central and northern coastal areas.

Most factions of the Taliban, Iraqi insurgency, Colombia's FARC, and the Communist Party of India ( Maoist ) are said to be engaged in some form of guerrilla warfare — as was, until recently, the Communist Party of Nepal ( Maoist ).

Most citrine is made by heating amethyst, and partial heating with a strong gradient results in ametrine — a stone partly amethyst and partly citrine.

Most political actors perceived Duvalier — a medical doctor who had served as a rural administrator of a United States-funded anti-yaws campaign before entering the cabinet under Estimé — as an honest and fairly unassuming leader without a strong ideological motivation or program.

( Most of the universe's mass is not in the form of chemical elements — that is, " baryonic " matter — but is made up of dark matter and dark energy.

Most literature supports the belief that IC's symptoms are associated with a defect in the bladder epithelium lining allows irritating substances in the urine to penetrate into the bladder — essentially, a breakdown of the bladder lining ( also known as Adherence Theory ).

Most artists, theatres, and orchestras — after struggling to survive the Depression — found these inducements hard to refuse.

He was selected for six consecutive All-Star Games from 1949 to 1954, was the recipient of the inaugural MLB Rookie of the Year Award in 1947, and won the National League Most Valuable Player Award in 1949 — the first black player so honored.

Most flora which begin to grow above water — primarily coconut palms — die out quickly due to the fierce tides and lack of resources necessary to sustain plant life.

Most scholars have agreed with the assessment made by Hans Bethe in 1952, which concluded that by the time Fuchs left the thermonuclear program — the summer of 1946 — there was too little known about the mechanism of the hydrogen bomb for his information to be of any necessary use to the Soviet Union ( the successful Teller-Ulam design was not discovered until 1951 ).

Most of the Eskimo peoples from the Aleutian Islands eastward to Greenland relied on the kayak for hunting a variety of prey — primarily seals, though whales and caribou were important in some areas.