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

The top personal income tax rate (also levied on capital gains), the sales tax rate, the corporate tax rate, and the gas tax are all at or near the highest of any state.

But the center of attention will be the expiring Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003, which reduced marginal tax rates on income, dividends, and capital gains.

Creating a fairer and more efficient tax system, by eliminating the special treatment of capital gains and dividends, is also needed.

A recent study found that taxing capital gains and dividends as ordinary income, subject to a maximum 28 rate on long term capital gains (the pre 1997 rate), could finance a cut in the corporate tax rate from 35 to 26 .

He has declared capital gains of 120 000.

Taxes. Obama would raise the top marginal tax rates on wages, capital gains, dividends, interest, and estates, especially on higher income individuals and small businesses.

Thaksin s supposedly legal tax planning, which allowed him to pay zero capital gains tax on the billion dollar sale of his flagship telecom company, Shin Corporation, in 2006, offended the rising urban professional classes.

Thaksin s supposedly legal tax planning, which allowed him to pay zero capital gains tax on the billion dollar sale of his flagship telecom company, Shin Corporation, in 2006, offended the rising urban professional classes.

Likewise, the government s deficit might fall not because of austerity, but because the stock market s anticipation of economic growth fuels higher revenues from capital gains tax.

There are no income, estate or capital gains taxes.

The measures include tighter limits on home purchases by non locals in cities with excessive price gains, a reinforced 20 capital gains tax, mandatory 70 down payments, and a 30 benchmark interest rate premium for second mortgages.

The February 27 decline began with an 8.8 one day drop in the Shanghai Composite, following news that the Chinese government might tax capital gains more aggressively.

Capital tax differences among countries would induce capital to flow from the high tax to the low tax economies. Such tax induced distortions would lead to an inefficient regional allocation of investment and possible tax competition.

Obama would raise the top marginal tax rates on wages, capital gains, dividends, interest, and estates, especially on higher income individuals and small businesses. Yet he has never proposed comprehensive reform of either the personal or corporate income tax.

If the capital gains tax rate is 50 (like Germany) and the company sells the stock,the company has 600 which is 40 percent less than before it sold the stock.

Tax evasion and illegal export of capital are the two most common practices constituting capital flight.

Abolition of taxes on realized capital gains increased the sales of shares enormously.

He asked for and got cuts in capital gains, dividend, and income taxes.

Direct interventions, restrictions on short term capital inflows, capital gains taxes, and stabilizing prudential banking regulations will all have to be considered.

Property or capital gains taxes could help curb demand for housing as an investment vehicle.

Creating a fairer and more efficient tax system, by eliminating the special treatment of capital gains and dividends, is also needed. Why should those who work for a living be subject to higher tax rates than those who reap their livelihood from speculation (often at the expense of others)?

Similarly, others have suggested that any country which modifies its tax laws to attract foreign capital could be considered a tax haven.

At present, Bermudians pay a tax on any capital transferred out of the Territory.

Political interference in the stock market is not merely about taxes on capital gains, dividends, and income.

China could usefully explore shifting part of the burden from labor toward property, capital gains, and inheritance taxes.

This is bad news for reducing income inequality, as capital gains and high end wages may grow much faster.

Brazil has been aggressive in terms of capital restrictions, twice increasing its tax on financial inflows.

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.

Spanish banks speculated on a continuing increase in real estate prices, which would bring large capital gains to their customers.

Its chief attractions were convertibility of a wide range of foreign currencies and no taxes on income and capital gains.

The idea that tax cuts would lead to productivity gains and would pay for themselves (and fix the budget) has proved entirely illusory.

People have enjoyed such huge capital gains over the past decade that most feel like gamblers on a long winning streak.

Developing countries' alleged gains from capital market liberalization have been widely discussed (although recent studies raise some doubts about these benefits).

Speaking of special privileges, the extraordinary differential between the 15 tax rate that capitalists pay on carried interest, dividends, and capital gains, and the 35 top marginal rate on work, that ordinary Americans pay, is kind of hard to justify without a touch of deification.

Enterprises that interact with university based research laboratories have been offered venture capital, tax benefits and other incentives.

As a result, the ultimate revenue gains are likely to prove disappointing, as Sweden discovered when it attempted to tax financial transactions two decades ago.

Varlık Vergisi ( wealth tax or capital tax ) was a Turkish tax levied on the wealthy citizens of Turkey in 1942, with the stated aim of raising funds for the country's defense in case of an eventual entry into World War II.

Inflation remains contained, but, more to the point, China s government has an arsenal of other weapons (from taxes on capital inflows and capital gains taxes to a variety of monetary instruments) at its disposal.

For example, capital mobility increases opportunities for tax evasion, given that tax authorities capacity to monitor their citizens overseas incomes is limited, and some governments and financial institutions systematically conceal relevant information.

Efficiency gains

Efficiency gains

Efficiency gains

That is in addition to explicit tax hikes on income, capital gains, and dividends, the implicit ones on energy via cap and trade, etc. It appears that the Obama strategy is to stuff the beast (the mirror image of the tax cutting starve the beast philosophy attributed to some of President Ronald Reagan s advisers), i.e., to initiate massive spending and hide the true cost from citizens.

In some cases, US firms bought the banks, held on to them until Korea recovered, and then resold them, reaping billions in capital gains.