Tax 'expenditures' should be part of the budget debate

La Prensa San Diego;  February 29, 2008 ;     700+ words ......leaders to modify or eliminate some tax expenditures. The Legislature has already cut services...spending debate ignores a crucial issue: tax expenditures. These are various tax measures meant...item in the budget. Many critics call tax expenditures loopholes, while others argue ...

Government Performance and Accountability: Tax Expenditures Represent a...

General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony;  January 1, 2006 ;     470 words ......tax code. As described in statute, tax expenditures are reductions in tax liabilities...century. This report describes (1) how tax expenditures have changed over the past three decades...recommendations to improve scrutiny of tax expenditures. Whether gauged in numbers, revenues...

The Hidden Welfare State: Tax Expenditures and Social Policy in the United...

Business History Review;  April 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...The Hidden Welfare State: Tax Expenditures and Social Policy in the United...Americans from paying taxes. Tax expenditures were not limited to the wealthy...some liberals wondered why tax expenditures had been protected from these...

Brewers Tapping Opposition To Higher Excise Taxes; Other Affected...

The Washington Post;  June 19, 1987 ;     700+ words ......folks want to talk to me about their excise taxes, all they have to do is come in and...lobbying campaign to forestall increases in excise taxes. Already, before a single hearing has...four studies on the impact of higher excise taxes on poor Americans. And it has given...

Tax expenditures as foreign aid.

Yale Law Journal;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......generating foreign aid but the role of tax expenditures in subsidizing it. Tax expenditures are deviations from the normal tax structure...Stanley Surrey pioneered the theory of tax expenditures in the late 1960s, and the concept is...

Line-item veto is useless against tax expenditures Eliminating restrictive...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  November 15, 1996 ;     674 words ......programs in the federal government: tax expenditures. Most people call these tax loopholes...wrote the 1994 report point out that tax expenditures are, in effect, "funded" before the...bomber. Under our budget process, these tax expenditures must be funded as they are created...

Former Thai Prime Minister Says Automobile Excise Taxes Hurt...

Bangkok Post (Bangkok, Thailand) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  November 20, 2002 ;     325 words ......Treerapongpichit Nov. 20--Thailand's excise taxes on automobiles should be reduced over...Trade Organisation agreements. However, excise taxes on vehicles remained too high, he said...FTI's Automobile Industry Club, said excise taxes on almost all vehicle categories in...

[15] Tax Expenditures Statement released.

Australasian Business Intelligence;  January 14, 2007 ;     139 words ......Australian Treasury has released the 2006 Tax Expenditures Statement. The document provides information...system. This statement lists around 270 tax expenditures and estimates their value over an...10. The Treasury expects measured tax expenditures to fall to four per cent of ...

[96] Concessional tax treatment of super still No 1 on Tax Expenditures...

Australasian Business Intelligence;  January 23, 2006 ;     160 words ......Bulletin - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The 2005 Tax Expenditures Statement has been issued by Treasury...identified tax expenditure. Roughly 270 tax expenditures are detailed; the policies up to the...and calculates that total measured tax expenditures were worth about $A36.8 billion in...

Collectors pursuing property and excise taxes New methods help pull in...

The Boston Globe;  July 17, 1994 ;     700+ words ......bring in property and motor vehicle excise taxes, some of which have been overdue for...31,475 outstanding in motor vehicle excise taxes, tax collector Mary Crory said. Cutbacks...many towns to collect motor vehicle excise taxes. Thanks to a 1991 law that prevents...

[115] Treasury: 2007 Tax Expenditures Statement released.

Australasian Business Intelligence;  February 11, 2008 ;     157 words ......Australia's total measured tax expenditures are expected to be at around...This is according to the 2007 tax Expenditures Statement, issued by the Treasury on 25 January 208. Tax expenditures constitute the various concessions...

Smoke? Drive? Talk? You'll pay // Boost in excise taxes studied

Chicago Sun-Times;  June 25, 1987 ;     700+ words ......take a more serious look at boosting excise taxes. Yet many economists and tax policy...tinkering with present levels of federal excise taxes for the sake of political expediency...study indicated the average increase in excise taxes, as a percent of total income, would...

The Hidden Welfare State: Tax Expenditures and Social Policy in the United...

American Political Science Review;  June 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......state. He emphasizes the importance of tax expenditures. Specifically, Howard uses historical...information to trace the evolution of four tax expenditures: home mortgage interest, employer...significance of the attributes of tax expenditures as potent welfare-state policy tools...

COURT ORDERS PETRON TO PAY EXCISE TAXES

The Manila Times;  September 9, 2006 ;     411 words ......Internal Revenue million in pesos worth of excise taxes. In a decision on August 23, 2006, the...BIR some P580.236 million in unpaid excise taxes from 1995 to 1997, which includes surcharges...TCCs) used by Petron to pay for its excise taxes "did not produce the effect of payment...

The effect of Sunday sales bans and excise taxes on drinking and...

National Tax Journal;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......1994) and Kenkel (1996) argue that excise taxes on alcoholic beverages are too low to...2002, for example, all states levied excise taxes on beer and in 32 license states the...addition to being relatively low, many excise taxes have fallen when measured in real terms...