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 taxes — including income tax and sales tax — can have significant deadweight costs.

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 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 of these types of projections distort shape in the polar regions more than at the equator.

Most embroidery programs allow the user to rotate, scale, move, stretch, distort, split, crop, or duplicate the design in an endless pattern.

Most Chinese until recently have avoided milk, partly because pasturage for milk producers in a monsoon rice ecology is not economic, partly because milk products became negatively associated with horse riding, milk drinking nomadic tribes.

Most proxies for " grievance "-the theory that civil wars begin because of issues of identity, rather than economics-were statistically insignificant, including economic equality, political rights, ethnic polarization and religious fractionalization.

Most Black legislators were small holders or merchants who held economic and social views diametrically opposed to the interests of the small, wealthy English planter class.

Most pressure will come from the world's developing countries, which have the fastest-growing populations and most rapid economic ( industrial ) growth.

Most of the camps established to accommodate the masses of incoming prisoners were assigned distinct economic tasks.

Most economic activity was conducted by state-owned enterprises or cooperatives and state farms.

Most notably, the “ British exploited the political weakness of the Mughal state, and, while military activity was important at various times, the economic and administrative incorporation of local elites was also of crucial significance ”.

Most libertarian socialists believe that when power is exercised, as exemplified by the economic, social, or physical dominance of one individual over another, the burden of proof is always on the authoritarian to justify their action as legitimate when taken against its effect of narrowing the scope of human freedom.

Most economic textbooks follow the practice of carefully explaining the perfect competition model, only because of its usefulness to understand " departures " from it ( the so-called imperfect competition models ).

Most of these took elements of Marxist economic analysis, but combined them with a more cultural or ideological emphasis.

Most commentators believed the 1993 election was " unwinnable " for Labor ; the government had been in power for 10 years and the pace of economic recovery from the early 1990s recession was ' weak and slow '.

Most radical parties later favored economic liberalism and capitalism.

Most information in the Soviet economy flowed from the top down and economic planning was often done based on faulty or outdated information, particularly in sectors with large numbers of consumers.

Most of the Ebla palace tablets, which date from that period, are about economic matters ; they provide a good look into the everyday life of the inhabitants, as well as many important insights into the cultural, economic, and political life in northern Mesopotamia around the middle of the third millennium B. C.

Most of Sumatra used to be covered by tropical rainforest, but economic development coupled with corruption and illegal logging has severely threatened its existence.

Most important to the Thai economy in this period might be that the regime introduced the market-oriented Import-Substituting Industrialization ( ISI ) which led to steady and rapid economic expansion in the Kingdom in the 1960s.

Most intentional communities attempting to create an economic utopia were formed in response to the harsh economic conditions of the 19th century.

Most countries whose industries had been damaged moved towards economic recovery.

Most Western countries experienced a large economic boom, due to the mass production of railroads and other more convenient methods of travel.

Most important, Spartan women had economic power because they controlled their own properties, and those of their husbands.

Most recently, institutes such as the National University of Sciences and Technology have embarked on creating industrial linkages to create think tanks focusing on industrial and economic growth issues.