Government taxes

Society might wish to tax chemical and insurance companies to clean up past disposal sites and provide compensation, but we must recognize that taxes alter behavior. If a state taxes sales, people shop in other states if governments tax equities, people buy real estate if Congress and the courts tax liability-insurance contracts (and their supply and demand are elastic), companies stop writing them. 

If government taxes on drug sales were substantial, pure drugs could still be provided at prices well below current levels., Money from taxes on legalized drugs could be another plus for legalization. 

CO2 may be able to be sequestered in geological formations, such as active and depleted oil and gas reservoirs, coalbeds, and deep saline aquifers. Such formations are widespread and have the potential to sequester large amounts of CO2 (Herzog et al., 2000). A model project is underway in the North Sea off the coast of Norway. The Sleipner offshore oil and natural gas field contains a gas mixture of natural gas and CO2 (9%). Because the Norwegian government taxes emissions of CO2... 

Taxes A I 0 percent service charge and 7 percent government tax are added to hotel rates departure tax is 20 by air, 5 by sea. 

Write to state office at capital of individual state requesting the information desired. This request will be forwarded to the correct agency. Information is generally available on possible industrial sites, resources, labor supply, unemployment, wage scales, state and local government taxes, and legal codes. 

Any unpaid bills, government taxes, and dues to worlfiorce shall also be looked into. 

All import duties and government taxes shall be paid, and clearances from customs shall be obtained. There shall be no delay for procurement of any of the items due to legal formalities required for export/import. 

The employer has the responsibility of finding sufficient work for his employees, paying government taxes and meeting the requirements of the Health and Safety at Work Act described in Chapter 1. The rates of pay and conditions... 

Proof—The numerical value of this term is twice the percent alcohol (by volume) in the liquor. For example, 80 proof means that the product contains 40 percent alcohol. Both the government tax and the selling price are pegged to the alcoholic content of the product, Hence, the lower proof variety of a given brand costs less than one with a higher proof. 

Businesses often launch supply chain restructuring projects that typically do not incorporate the implications of government taxes. But this can mean that the effective costs increase and opportunities are missed, after a restructuring. Taxes have major implications for almost aU supply chain activities including business development, R D, product design, procurement, manufacturing, distribution, logistics, and services (Chakravarty 2005). 

A parallel calculation for Kenya could only be drawn from the most recent Kenyan National Health Accoimts (MMS and MPHS, nd). They show total health spending (THE) for 2009-10 as US 1.62 billion. The Kenyan National Pharmaceutical Policy (NPP) (MoMS and MPHS, 2010 53-54) estimates total pharmaceutical expenditure (TPE) at around 20% of THE, or US 324 million of that about 15-20% was public expenditure, or around US 64.8 million. Finally, the same document states (p. 53) that government spending was estimated in 2005-06 at 21.6% of public spending on medicines, the rest being donor funded. If that percentage were stable over time, it would imply a government tax-funded share of the Kenyan domestic medicines market in 2009-10 of under 5%. 

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