According to the GAO, 80 of state tax officials opposed a national sales tax as an intrusion on their tax base.

And fourthly, it is important to expand the tax base.

This can include broadening the tax base, reducing tax avoidance and evasion, improving tax collection, and developing new, cooperative international taxation strategies.

Recognizing in that regard the need for a stronger financial base of the United Nations Environment Programme, including a broader donor base,

Some LDCs have made progress in undertaking tax reform, broadening the non tax revenue base and improving the efficiency of financial institutions.

That had been accomplished by widening the tax base, improving administration efficiency, reducing corporate income tax, introducing a personal income tax of 10 per cent and keeping value added tax at 10 per cent.

Activities will also include the development and promotion of effective mobilization of financial resources, taxation, especially measures to reform tax systems, combat tax evasion and widen the tax base.

Broadening the income tax base is a central element of the highly regarded Simpson Bowles proposals for tax reform in the United States.

Obama s temporary first year expensing proposal for capital purchases (a good idea as part of a permanent corporate tax overhaul) could get folded into broader tax legislation.

The Commissioner General's fund raising efforts should continue and a broader base of donors should be sought.

And, while raising so much revenue with so low a tax rate sounds grand, the declining volume of trades would shrink the tax base precipitously.

And we want to shift the systems that open the doors for people who were formerly tax burdens to become part of the tax base.

In addition, private sector firms provide most of the tax base needed to fund public services.

These revenue losses could be offset by curtailing so called corporate tax expenditures deductions, credits, and other special tax provisions that subsidize some economic activities while penalizing others and broadening the corporate tax base.

It had created value added and tax base for the community, and something like 3,000 people died.

(b) To promote appropriate fiscal and financial policies and measures in support of development, including measures to reform tax systems, combat tax evasion and widen the tax base, and to develop options for broad based development.

That said, if the goal of corporate tax reform is to boost investment and job creation, broadening the tax base to pay for a lower rate could be counterproductive.

Indeed, the lower marginal rate ought to be made permanent, but accompanied by spending control, with broader tax reform to come later.

A desirable way to broaden the tax base would be to put an overall cap on the amount of tax reduction that each taxpayer can achieve through deductions and exclusions.

On the revenue side, those countries adopted measures aimed at expanding the revenue base, increasing the elasticity of their tax systems and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of their tax administration.

Governments that don t need to broaden their tax base have few incentives to respond to the needs of their people.

(b) Research and analysis to determine the appropriate tax reforms that are needed to improve the tax base and to improve the taxation of economic activities, including agriculture, manufacturing and services, to minimize tax compliance costs and to promote allocative efficiency and growth

Poor regions have a low base of economic activity to tax, which prevents them from investing in human and physical capital.

Corporate tax expenditures narrow the base, raise the cost of tax compliance, and distort decisions about investment projects, how to finance them, what form of business organization to adopt, and where to produce.

The broader measure of real per capita after tax personal income has also been falling, and is back to levels last seen a year ago.

Austerity programs have been largely counterproductive, generating vicious cycles of slow or no growth, business closures, skyrocketing unemployment, and tax base erosion.

Obama s recent statement that he favors reforming personal and corporate taxes by lowering rates and broadening the tax base reinforces that impression.

The tax base thus increased from approximately 8 per cent of GDP in 1995 to more than 10 per cent in 2002.

Both are openly opposed not only to the tax increase, but also to the continuing presence of the US Marine base on Okinawa.

The rump euro s weakened exchange rate would lead to renewed economic growth, job creation, and a stronger tax base in southern European countries.

The Direction Générale des Impôts (DGI), the tax authority, has continued to try to widen the scope of the tax collection base through various schemes in Government controlled areas in an effort to increase State revenues.

This evolution is positive because by giving decisions a better substantive base it contributes to better identifying priorities and allocating resources with a broader social consensus.

To that end, additional donors must be identified and a broader, stable, long term financing base established, including an allocation from the regular budget of the United Nations.

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So what else can eurozone governments do to raise revenue as their economies recover? Most economists favor finding ways to broaden the tax base for example, by eliminating special deductions and privileges in order to keep marginal tax rates low.

But groups such as Baader Meinhof in Germany and the Red Brigades in Italy were eliminated precisely because there were no objective conditions for establishing a broader support base.

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This base was called Base Marret.

The tax base must also be able to support the public investment required to revamp and develop the infrastructure necessary for economic growth and enhanced social equity.

Tax revenue can be raised without increasing marginal tax rates by limiting the tax subsidies that are built into the current tax code.

Finally, Abe s growth strategy demands a corporate tax reduction a powerful tool for increasing the tax base in a world in which countries are competing to attract multinational companies. Indeed, lower taxes are vital to increase foreign and domestic investment in Japan.

France s motivations are broader.

5. The Turks and Caicos Islands levies no income tax, capital gains tax or sales tax.

It either has log base, you know base 10, or base e, right?

All for One Tax and One Tax for All?