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.

In Canada, the federal sales tax is called the Goods and Services tax ( GST ) and now stands at 5 %.

Under Canadian federal and Québécois provincial law, a telecommunications facility, for the purposes of determining whether GST applies, is defined by § 123 ( 1 ) of the GST Act to be " any facility, apparatus, or other thing ( including any wire, cable, radio, optical, or other electromagnetic system, or any similar technical system or any part thereof ) that is used or is capable of being used for telecommunications ".

The party's policies include a " Progressive Expenditure Tax " ( with no tax payable on any income that is saved or invested ), universal living allowance tied to basic per capita living costs, rejection of the Goods and Services Tax ( GST ) and other taxes for general revenue that it views as regressive, federal funding for the education of students attending non-government schools to be based on an equitable distribution and increased diversification in overseas trade to broaden the base for growth, and on opposition to abortion, euthanasia, therapeutic cloning and same-sex marriage.

* Harmonized Sales Tax, in Canada the combining of the federal Goods & Services Tax ( GST ) and Provincial Sales Tax ( PST ) into a single tax

Canada uses a value-added federal Goods and Services Tax ( GST ) with a rate of 5 percent, effective since January 1, 2008.

The government of Quebec administers both the federal GST and the provincial Quebec Sales Tax ( QST ).

* Goods and Services Tax ( GST ), a value-added tax levied by the federal government

After the John Howard Coalition defeated 13-year Labour government at the 1996 federal election, economic reforms were taken further, some examples being wholesale labour market deregulation ( e. g. WorkChoices ), the introduction of a Goods and Services Tax ( GST ), the privatisation of the telecommunications monopoly Telstra, and sweeping welfare reform including " work for the dole ".

As well, the federal government and some provincial governments ( Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, and Quebec ) collect sales tax ( GST and PST ) on top of the retail price and the excise taxes.

It is used in provinces where both the federal Goods and Services Tax ( GST ) and the regional Provincial Sales Tax ( PST ) have been combined into a single value added sales tax.

The federal government provides a refundable " GST Credit " of up to $ 248 per adult and $ 130 per child to low income people for 2009-10.

In 1996, three of the four Atlantic provinces — New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Nova Scotia — entered into an agreement with the Government of Canada to implement what was initially termed the Blended Sales Tax ( renamed to Harmonized Sales Tax ) which would combine the 7 % federal GST with the provincial sales taxes of those provinces ; as part of this project, the PST portion of the new HST in these provinces dropped from 10 % to 8 %.

The result was a 15 % combined tax when the federal GST was added.

Since the implementation of the federal GST in 1990, PEI's 10 % PST has been charged on the subtotal of goods and services which included the federal GST.

The Party also regards most, if not all, taxation as coercive, and seeks to eliminate or substantially reduce the personal and corporate income tax rates, as well as abolish the GST and federal excise taxes.

The Canada Revenue Agency collects the Goods and Services Tax ( GST ) ( the Canadian federal value added tax ) of 5 % in all provinces except Quebec.

* 2010-Ontario ends the use of the GST and merges goods and services taxes with the federal government

As the Australian Government's principle revenue collection body, the ATO collects income tax, Goods & Services Tax ( GST ) and other federal taxes for the government.

Rhode Island's rate of $.07 per mile is considerably lower than reimburseable rates in the federal government and in industry nationally which approximate a $.09 per mile average.

The essential ineffectiveness of these measures resulted in 1934 in substantial elimination of federal jurisdiction to enjoin state public utility rate orders.

( In the USA this is called the federal funds rate ).

A survey of same-sex couples in the United States showed that between 2000 and 2005, the number of people claiming to be in same-sex relationships increased by 30 %— five times the rate of population growth in the U. S. The study attributed the jump to people being more comfortable self-identifying as homosexual to the federal government.

The rate of growth in federal spending fell from 4 % under Jimmy Carter to 2. 5 % under Ronald Reagan.

Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy | ITEP estimate of the total effective tax rate for federal, state and local taxes ( personal and corporate income, payroll, property, sales, excise, estate, etc.

Corporations are subject to federal graduated rates of tax from 15 % to 35 %; a rate of 34 % applies to income from $ 335, 000 to $ 15, 000, 000.

Likely contributing factors in the 1960s and 1970s include a decline in the fertility rate, associated with the introduction of the pill, the completion of legalization of artificial birth control methods, the introduction of federal funding to make family planning services available to the young and low income, and the legalization of abortion.

Against the will of the president of the German federal bank, he allowed a 1: 1 exchange rate for wages, interest and rent between the West and East Marks.

With this information, he calculated that tariffs had not reached the maximum revenue rate, and therefore a reduction, not an increase, in the tariff would have reduced revenue and the federal surplus.

In one study, the conviction rate in contested Japanese trials in 1994 was found to be 98. 8 %, while the comparable conviction rate in contested United States federal trials in 1994 was 30. 9 %.

The county legislative body sets a property tax rate which, along with revenues from other county taxes and fees as well as state and federal monies allocated to the county, are used to fund the budget.

Due mainly to federal land management policies and global market pressures affecting timber and agricultural production and extraction, the county has experienced the second highest unemployment rate in Oregon for more than 30 years.

The top tax rate went to 80 % by 1935 and the federal government increased excise taxes in an attempt to make up for the lost revenue.

For example, the Federal Reserve federal funds rate in the United States has varied between about 0. 25 % to 19 % from 1954 to 2008, while the Bank of England base rate varied between 0. 5 % and 15 % from 1989 to 2009, and Germany experienced rates close to 90 % in the 1920s down to about 2 % in the 2000s.

The FOMC decides on open market operations, including the desired levels of central bank money or the desired federal funds market rate.

The effective federal funds rate in the US charted over more than half a century

The Federal Reserve ( often referred to as ' The Fed ') implements monetary policy largely by targeting the federal funds rate.

This is the rate that banks charge each other for overnight loans of federal funds, which are the reserves held by banks at the Fed.

Oliver's government developed the produce industry in the Nanook Valley, and tried to persuade the federal government to lower the freight rate for rail transport.

The changes to federal law enacted in 1983 and signed by President Reagan and pursuant to the recommendations of the Greenspan Commission advanced the time frame for previously scheduled payroll tax increases ( though it raised slightly the payroll tax for the self-employed to equal the employer-employee rate ), changed certain benefit calculations, and raised the retirement age to 67 by the year 2027.

In 2011 and 2012, the federal government temporarily lowered the rate of the employees ' share of payroll taxes from 6. 2 % to 4. 2 % of compensation, advancing the year of depletion of the Trust Fund from 2036 to 2033.

At the time, African Americans suffered a high rate of lynchings in the South ; this coincided with their disfranchisement in the South from 1890 – 1910, which persisted until after passage of federal civil rights legislation of the 1960s.