The department apparently intends to make the Rural Roads Authority a revolving fund under which new bonds would be issued every time a portion of the old ones are paid off by tax authorities.

The strategy for introducing the new GST tax was to fill a ' black hole ' in the budget that was created by the introduction of a new 0 / 10 tax that replaced the old tax system that previously exempted foreign investors from corporation tax and levied a 20 % rate on Jersey residents.

In his Florentine tax return of August 1469 he declared: “ I find myself old and ailing, my wife is ill, and I can no longer work .” In his last years, he was a lonesome, forgotten man, afraid of hardship in life.

The conservative position is encapsulated in perhaps the most famous adage of public finance, " An old tax is a good tax ".

No one is molested in these visits by the Mahomedans, as we have a very old firman from the Sultan of Constantinople that the approach shall not be denied to us, though the Porte obtains for this privilege a special tax, which is, however, quite insignificant .”

These amendments grant citizenship ( 14th ), and voting rights to all races ( 15th ), women ( 19th ), without poll tax ( 24th ) and youth 18 – 21 years old ( 26th ).

A chicken, for example, might be required to be able to jump over a fence of a given height to be considered old enough or well enough to be valued for tax purposes.

In the Byzantine Empire a tax on hearths known as kapnikon was first explicitly mentioned for the reign of Nicephorus I ( 802 – 811 ) although its context implies that it was already then old and established and perhaps it should be taken back to the 7th century AD.

In 1938, the old formalism began to give way with Justice Stone's opinion in Western Live Stock v. Bureau of Revenue, 303 U. S. 250, which examined New Mexico's franchise tax, measured by gross receipts, as applied to receipts from out-of-state advertisers in a journal produced by taxpayers in New Mexico but circulated both inside and outside the State.

The Court upheld the reworded statute as not violative of the prohibition on privilege taxes, even though the impact of the old tax and new were essentially identical.

When the infant was only a few months old, Stone protested a tax assessed on her property, arguing since she was not able to vote, that this was " taxation without representation ".

Many reviews of the film are quick to point out large amount of old tax money behind the film, an irony not lost on the filmmakers.

The public grew disillusioned with the growing national debt and the new election laws, which retained the old minimum tax qualifications for voters.

The party has abandoned several of its old key features such as a proportional income tax and increased military spending.

It will be seen, then, that the statement of Henry Hallam that in 1634 William Noy, the Attorney-General, unearthed in the Tower of London old records of ship money as a tax disused and forgotten for centuries has no real foundation.

The tariff issue now settled, that of national defence was taken up afresh, and in the following year the government produced a complete scheme for the abolition of the land tax in the course of ten years, in exchange for a compensation of ninety days ' drill for those liable to military service, proposed to retain the old military system of the country and to strengthen the defences of Norrland, and the government bill for a reorganization of the Swedish Army was accepted by the Riksdag in an extraordinary session.

Due to his battle with the Swedish tax authorities at the time, Ingmar Bergman produced Autumn Sonata through his West German company, Personafilm GmbH, with main financing from Lew Grade's British ITC Film, and shot the film in an old film studio outside Oslo in Norway.

Various other tax reforms were enacted such as an increase in the old age pension, incentives for renovation, and various initiatives designed to improve energy efficiency.

* Since 2004, Atlanta charges a city sales tax of 1 % to separate and repair its old sewers and storm drains.

He was too old -- when he passed up and through the corridor of pines that lined the trail he could see ahead, he was passing from life.

It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses.

He was in earnest conversation with her father and the old vaquero, Luis Hernandez.

He'd put on his old brown corduroy coat and it was already soaked.

Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.

The car was just about to us, its driver's fat, solemn face intent on the road ahead, on business, on a family in Sante Fe -- on anything but an old pick-up truck in which two human beings desperately needed rescue.

I was standing beside her, watching the outspread palms and wondering about the old horsehair sofa against the wall on which he sometimes napped.

The Bonaventure was quivering and lurching like an old spavined mare.

For an anthropologist, loquacious old L'Turu was a mine of information.

The story was shaping up nicely in his mind: the young pioneer, as of old, altruistically braving the unknown ; ;

To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.

He was about 50 years old.

`` Oh he was stupid, her old man!!

for another, it was here that one of the old caravan routes came in.

But I suspect that the old Roman was referring to change made under military occupation -- the sort of change which Tacitus was talking about when he said, `` They make a desert, and call it peace '' ( `` Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant ''.

On his father's side he was of German descent, on his mother's he came of the old Swedish nobility.

Strindberg's remedy for this condition was to tear down the old structures and build anew from the ground up.

At this period the thirty-year old Helion was ranked `` as one of the mature leaders of the modern movement '', according to Herbert Read, `` and in the direct line of descent from Cezanne, Seurat, Gris and Leger ''.

Only what else was she singing but the old Song of Songs, that most ancient of tunes that nature plays with such unfailing response upon young nerves??

It was much more fun, reminding the girls of their old carefree days in the Hasseltine frolics room at Bradford.

He had worked in the newspaper business since he was nineteen years old, always for the Hearst service.

It repealed old domestic restrictions on linen manufacturing ( 1663 ).

In 1868, the Burlingame Treaty repealed the century old prohibition law of the Chinese government and opened a floodgate of Chinese immigration.

A rationing system was in place during the war ; in 1947, it was repealed and a money reform was carried out in which ten old rubles were exchanged for one new ruble.

This old Washington meridian was repealed on 22 August 1912.

He also repealed old Roman laws dating back to the late 4th century forbidding intermarriage between Visigoths and Ibero-Romans.