The concept of Tax Freedom Day was developed in 1948 by Florida businessman Dallas Hostetler, who trademarked the phrase " Tax Freedom Day " and calculated it each year for the next two decades.

The Tax Foundation has calculated Tax Freedom Day for the United States ever since, using it as a tool for illustrating the proportion of national income diverted to fund the annual cost of government programs.

In 1990, the Tax Foundation began calculating the specific Tax Freedom Day for each individual state.

In the United States, Tax Freedom Day for 2010 is April 3, for a total average effective tax rate of 26. 9 percent of the nation's income.

The latest that Tax Freedom Day has occurred was May 1 in 2000.

In 1900, Tax Freedom Day arrived January 22, for an effective average total tax rate of 5. 9 percent of the nation's income.

According to the Tax Foundation, the most important factor driving changes in Tax Freedom Day from year to year is growth in incomes, as the progressive structure of the U. S. federal tax system causes taxes as a percentage of income to rise along with inflation.

Tax Freedom Day varies among the 50 U. S. states, as incomes and state & local taxes differ from state to state.

Connecticut had the heaviest tax burden — Tax Freedom Day there arrived April 27.

According to the Tax Foundation, the following is a list of Tax Freedom Days in the U. S. since 1900:

Secondly, the Tax Foundation argues that the Tax Freedom Day calculation does not include capital gains as income because it uses income and tax data directly from the Bureau of Economic Analysis ( BEA ).

Additionally, the Tax Foundation argues that the exclusion of capital gains income is irrelevant in most years since including capital gains would only shift Tax Freedom Day by 1 percent in either direction in most years.

* Tax Foundation's Tax Freedom Day

* Tax Freedom Day Clock A live clock that counts the days till / since Tax Freedom Day

* Tax Day ( US ) – April 15

* Tax Day, the official deadline for filing an individual tax return ( or requesting an extension ).

The same is true if you have itemized your deductions and later decide you should have used the Standard Deduction or Tax Table.

Sheeran, a lawyer and former FBI man is running against the Republican organization's candidate, Freeholder William MacDonald, for the vacancy left by the resignation of Neil Duffy, now a member of the State Board of Tax Appeals.

* Tax holiday ( or tax abatement ) is used in the field of economic development to encourage businesses to relocate, expand, and more currently to retain facilities in a community

* 1937 – The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.

In 1991, Cyprus introduced a Value Added Tax ( VAT ), which is currently 15 % in line with the EU minimum.

Under Tax Court of Canada Rules of Tax Court of Canada Act, a person who is found to be in contempt may be imprisoned for a period of less than two years or fined.

Similar procedures for serving an order first is also used at the Tax Court.

Similarly, section 7482 of the Internal Revenue Code provides that the U. S. Supreme Court and the federal courts of appeals may impose penalties where the taxpayer's appeal of a U. S. Tax Court decision was " maintained primarily for delay " or where " the taxpayer's position in the appeal is frivolous or groundless.

Crain asserts that he " is not subject to the jurisdiction, taxation, nor regulation of the state ," that the " Internal Revenue Service, Incorporated " lacks authority to exercise the judicial power of the United States, that the Tax Court is unconstitutionally attempting to exercise Article III powers, and that jurisdiction over his person has never been affirmatively proven.

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Value Added Tax is a consumption tax administered in Ghana.

As a result of having made a commitment in accordance with the OECD's 2001 Progress Report on the OECD's Project on Harmful Tax Practices, Gibraltar is not included in the OECD's list of uncooperative tax havens.

Following Gibraltar's signing of 12 additional Tax Information Exchange Agreements ( TIEAs ), as of October 2009, with jurisdictions including the UK, US and Germany, to sum 13, Gibraltar is currently listed in the OECD " white list ", and is considered a jurisdiction that has substantially implemented the tax standard.

A recent guild is the Worshipful Company of Tax Advisers.

* 1942 – The Australian Federal Government becomes the sole collector of income tax in Australia as the State Income Tax is abolished.

* Is less effective than other methods ( e. g. the Earned Income Tax Credit ) at reducing poverty, and is more damaging to businesses than those other methods.

* Round-tripping: Money is deposited in a controlled foreign corporation offshore, preferably in a Tax haven where minimal records are kept, and then shipped back as a Foreign Direct Investment, exempt from taxation.

It is handled by the Indian Income Tax Department.

It is investigated by the Indian Income Tax Department.

There do exist checks on the prime minister's power: parliament may revoke its confidence in an incumbent prime minister ; cabinet or caucus revolts can quickly bring down a sitting premier, and even mere threats of such action can persuade and / or compel a prime minister to resign his post, as happened with Jean Chrétien ; the Senate may delay or impede legislation put forward by the Cabinet, such as when Brian Mulroney's bill creating the Goods and Services Tax ( GST ) came before the upper chamber ; and, given Canada's federal nature, the jurisdiction of the federal government is limited to areas prescribed by the constitution.

Tax efficient supply chain management is a business model which considers the effect of tax in design and implementation of supply chain management.

The Income Tax Law of 1928 introducing income tax was the first law drafted entirely in English.

His legacy includes the Kemp – Roth Tax Cut of the 1980s, also known as the first of two " Reagan tax cuts.

* May 11 – Income Tax Act establishes the first peacetime income tax in the United Kingdom ; 7 pence in the pound, for incomes over 150 pounds.

OUP was first exempted from US Corporation Tax in 1972 and from UK Corporation Tax in 1978.

He also succeeded in forcing the Commons to agree to the imposition of the first Poll Tax in English history-a viciously regressive measure that bore hardest on the poorest members of society.

Referred to as the second of the two " Reagan tax cuts " ( the Kemp-Roth Tax Cut of 1981 being the first ), the bill was also officially sponsored by Democrats, Richard Gephardt of Missouri in the House of Representatives and Bill Bradley of New Jersey in the Senate.

Also during 2006, Morgan and Hendricks Counties became the first in Indiana to develop neighboring and co-related TIF ( Tax Increment Financing ) districts for economic development activity.

In addition, the district voters supported the recent Medina County Sales Tax ( the first in Ohio ), at a rate of 74 % for the levy.

The first referendum to be held under this legislation is currently scheduled for September 2011 on the subject of repealing the Harmonized Sales Tax.

Christopher Callahan, BSM 2007, founder of the nation's first Four-Year Triple Degree Program ( JD / MBA / Tax LL. M ) at the University of Miami.

Roosevelt administration crafted the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act, the first US national law making cannabis possession illegal via an unpayable tax on the drug.

McCluskey's first album from the new OMD was the critically acclaimed Sugar Tax LP in 1991, which charted at No. 3 in the UK.

* Japan: The first land reform, called the Land Tax Reform or was passed in 1873 as a part of the Meiji Restoration.

Maurice Lauré, Joint Director of the France Tax Authority, the Direction générale des impôts, was first to introduce VAT on 10 April 1954, although German industrialist Dr. Wilhelm von Siemens proposed the concept in 1918.

The first was the 1951 " Golden Daimler ", an opulent touring limousine, in 1952, " Blue Clover ", a two-door sportsmans coupe, in 1953 the " Silver Flash " based on the 3-litre Regency chassis, and in 1954 " Stardust ", redolent of the " Gold Car ", but based on the DK400 chassis as was what proved to be her Paris 1955 grande finale, a 2-door coupé she named " Golden Zebra ", the " last straw " for the Tax Office and now on permanent display at The Hague.

After involvement in the 1990 anti-Poll Tax movement, and having written a number of articles for ' Freedom ' magazine, he first became involved with the UK Green Anarchist magazine in 1990, and published a novel, City-Death, explaining his idea of green anarchism.

Additionally, several measures were taken to increase the demand for EVs in Portugal: ( 1 ) EVs are fully exempt from both the Vehicle Tax due upon purchase ( Imposto Sobre Veículos ) and the annual Circulation Tax ( Imposto Único de Circulação ); ( 2 ) Personal Income Tax provides an allowance of EUR 803 upon the purchase of EVs ; ( 3 ) EVs are fully exempt from the 5 %- 10 % company car tax rates which are part of the Corporation Income Tax ; ( 4 ) The Budget Law provides for an increase of the depreciation costs related to the purchase of EVs for the purpose of Corporation Income Tax ; ( 5 ) the first 5, 000 EVs to be sold in Portugal will receive a 5, 000 € incentive fund, and the Cash-for-Clunkers program grants an additional 1, 500 € fund if an internal combustion engine vehicle built before 2000 is delivered when acquiring the new EV ; ( 6 ) The Portuguese State did also commit to play a pedagogic role and defined that EVs will have a 20 % share of the annual renewal of public car fleet, starting in 2011.

He was also the first mayor to computerize assessment of the Real Estate Tax in the Municipal Assessor ’ s Office.