Taxation

A tax is a compulsory financial charge or some other type of levy imposed on a taxpayer (an individual or legal entity) by a governmental organization in order to fund government spending and various public expenditures. A failure to pay, along with evasion of or resistance to taxation, is punishable by law. Taxes consist of direct or indirect taxes and may be paid in money or as its labour equivalent. The first known taxation took place in Ancient Egypt around 3000–2800 BC. Most countries have a tax system in place to pay for public, common, or agreed national needs and …

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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 2024 English

The 2024 SDG Gender Index by Equal Measures 2030, a coalition of civil society and non-profit organisations, delivers a critical and sobering message on the state of gender equality with …

requires gender-responsive budgets, progressive taxation and strong investment in public services and requires gender-responsive budgets, progressive taxation, and strong investment in public services, as social infrastructure, including care Progressive taxation and investments in social protection, public


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 2024 English

This lexicon was published in January 2024 by Kuviraa India, an organization that engages adolescent girls and young women in civic and political discourse. This working document, slated to be …

country's financial policies, including budgeting, taxation and public expenditures. E Minister of Law and


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 2024 English

society. The report studies the dominance of big corporations and its impact on wage workers, climate, taxation and privatisation.The 71-page document is divided into four chapters: A gilded age of division (Chapter

undertaking a sustained and highly effective war on taxation. The statutory corporate income tax rate has more undertaking a sustained and highly effective war on taxation, enriching shareholders and depriving the public taxes on corporations and their owners Corporate taxation has in many ways collapsed, despite sharply rising tax cuts are tax cuts for the rich As corporate taxation has collapsed and corporate profits have soared corporations has occurred alongside very low taxation of the types of income corporations pay out to


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 November 2023 English

After the Britishers took control over present-day Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, it introduced various taxation laws to extract profits from the lands of the Bengal delta region. But the law was changed four


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 30 January 2023 English

The World Inequality Lab, a research organisation based in Paris, released this report on January 30, 2023. It was authored by Lucas Chancel and Philipp Bothe from the Paris School …

Figure F: New tax revenues from multinationals taxation: OECD proposal vs. climate risk Notes: Projected


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 16 January 2023 English

This report was published by Oxfam International, UK, on January 16, 2023. It was written by Martin-Brehm Christensen, Christian Hallum, Alex Maitland, Quentin Parrinello and Chiara Putaturo –researchers working with …

inequality. The report explores how, in recent history, taxation of the richest was far higher; how talk of taxing tested ways in which governments can raise such taxation. It shows us how taxing the rich can set us clearly wealthiest 22 2.1 The collapse of progressive taxation 22 2.2 How the rich avoid paying taxes – alias no sustainable future for us all without fair taxation. And while most of the world is backpedalling The report explores how, in recent history, taxation of the richest was far higher; how talk of taxing


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 15 January 2023 English

contribute almost two-thirds (64.3 per cent) of it. Recommendations of the paper include progressive taxation to reduce the stark income inequality in the country...

paying a lower percentage (15 per cent). This new taxation policy resulted in a total loss of INR 1.84 lakh THE RICHEST - THE INDIA STORY Why tax the rich? Taxation in itself can exacerbate inequalities if tax All-India level pays six times more on indirect taxation as a percentage of income compared to top 10 for the public good Revenues from progressive taxation has the capacity to fund the country’s health first year. Over the last two years, this new taxation policy resulted in a total loss of INR 1.84


LC: Library of Congress · 2023 English

"LL File No. 2023-022255." "June 2023." "Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Philippines, …

Entitlements.”28 In March 2023, the Australian Taxation Office, which administers the above-referenced Foreign Ownership of Australian Assets, Australian Taxation Office (last updated Apr. 19, 2023), https://perma under the Income Tax Act for each of the five taxation years preceding the year in which the purchase


LC: Library of Congress · 2023 English

"LL File No. 2023-022392." "August 2023." Includes bibliographical references. Description based on online resource, PDF version; title from cover (LOC, viewed Sept. 15, 2023).

France. In Sweden, there are provisions to delay taxation on real estate transfers. Similarly, in the United incentives identified include a reduced rate of taxation on investments of persons aged 60 years or older cooperation with treaties on tax evasion and double taxation on income are a common theme among the surveyed treaties identified in the surveys deal with double taxation and tax evasion. Mutual investment treaties are tax rate. In terms of shares, the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) explains that a CGT event occurs


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 7 November 2022 English

Oxfam International, UK, published this paper on November 7, 2022. It has been written by Alex Maitland, Max Lawson, Hilde Stroot, Alexandre Poidatz, Ashfaq Khalfan and Nafkote Dabi, researchers working …

stringent reporting requirements and imposing new taxation on wealth and investments in polluting industries should tackle this issue with data, regulation and taxation. They must systematically report on the emissions at the global level. Further, additional top-up taxation should be levied on wealth generated from polluting complemented with steeply progressive rates of taxation (see below). At present no state in the world greater general taxation of the richest, additional, steep rates of top-up taxation should be implemented


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