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 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 of these, with horrible exceptions, were conceived as is a ship, not as an attempt to quell the ocean of mankind, nor to deny its force, but as a means to survive and enjoy it.

Most of my stories were obtained by simply seeking out the person who could give me the facts, and not as a rule by playing clever tricks.

He writes, `` Most of my friends and I were Jewish ; ;

Most of them were elderly men.

Most Juniors who were entered in the Finals are seasoned campaigners and not only show and win in Junior Classes but score in the Breed Classes as well.

Most of our working days were spent on the telephone calling `` bookies '', illegal gambling dens, a certain `` residential club for young actresses '', more than a hundred different bars or the steam room of the athletic club.

Most of the Junkers were above the blinding light of the flares, and the radar-controlled shore gun had been knocked out by one of the first sticks of bombs.

Most of the letters were written in the hubbub of camp, on stumps, pieces of bark, drum heads, or the knee.

Most manufacturers were now disposed to heed a proposal for the formal interchange of patents.

Most children love the animated puppet faces and their flexible bodies, and they prefer to see them as though the puppets were in action, rather than put away in boxes.

Most of the fingers on his left hand were burned off when he fell asleep with a cigarette.

Most of them were written between 1953 and 1960 and originally appeared in various magazines.

Most of their original objections about `` shells '' were overridden by the relief that these hideous ( to them ) bodies were mercifully concealed.

Most of the still extant works of Aristotle, as well as a number of the original Greek commentaries, were translated into Arabic and studied by Muslim philosophers, scientists and scholars.

Most agnostid species were eyeless.

Most notably are the characters of Dr. Eric Leidner in Murder in Mesopotamia, Signor Richetti in Death on the Nile, and many minor characters in They Came to Baghdad were archaeologists.

The other Rutherford films ( all directed by George Pollock ) were Murder at the Gallop ( 1963 ), based on the 1953 Hercule Poirot novel After the Funeral ( In this film, she is identified as Miss JTV Marple, though there was no indication as to what the extra initials might stand for ); Murder Most Foul ( 1964 ), based on the 1952 Poirot novel Mrs McGinty's Dead ; and Murder Ahoy!

Most Germanic tribes were generally tolerant of the Nicene beliefs of their subjects.

Most of the remaining fortifications including the Curtain walls and Keep date to this period and were built by the Armenians.

Most of the pilings that form the foundation of Venice were made from alder trees.

Most of the Alemanni were probably at the time in fact resident in or close to the borders of Germania Superior.

Most agates occur as nodules in volcanic rocks or ancient lavas where they represent cavities originally produced by the disengagement of volatiles in the molten mass which were then filled, wholly or partially, by siliceous matter deposited in regular layers upon the walls.

Most later Alexanders in various countries were directly or indirectly named for him.

Most government positions also were appointed by the legislature.