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  2. List of countries by tax rates - Wikipedia

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    Map of the world showing national-level sales tax / VAT rates as of October 2019. A comparison of tax rates by countries is difficult and somewhat subjective, as tax laws in most countries are extremely complex and the tax burden falls differently on different groups in each country and sub-national unit.

  3. History of taxation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Buenker, John D. "The ratification of the federal income tax amendment." Cato Journal. 1 (1981): 183-223. Buenker, John D. The Income Tax and the Progressive Era (Routledge, 2018) excerpt. Burg, David F. A World History of Tax Rebellions: An Encyclopedia of Tax Rebels, Revolts, and Riots from Antiquity to the Present (2003) excerpt and text search

  4. International taxation - Wikipedia

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    The foreign corporation will be subject to U.S. income tax on its effectively connected income, and will also be subject to the branch profits tax on any of its profits not reinvested in the U.S. [citation needed] Thus, many countries tax corporations under company tax rules and tax individual shareholders upon corporate distributions. Various ...

  5. Quizlet - Wikipedia

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    Quizlet's primary products include digital flash cards, matching games, practice electronic assessments, and live quizzes. In 2017, 1 in 2 high school students used Quizlet. [ 4 ] As of December 2021, Quizlet has over 500 million user-generated flashcard sets and more than 60 million active users.

  6. Progressive tax - Wikipedia

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    Pitt's new graduated (progressive) income tax began at a levy of 2 old pence in the pound (1 ⁄ 120 or 0.83%) on annual incomes over £60 and increased up to a maximum of 2 shillings (10%) on incomes of over £200. Pitt hoped that the new income tax would raise £10 million, but actual receipts for 1799 totalled just over £6 million. [18]

  7. Tax - Wikipedia

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    If individuals experience diminishing returns from income, then the optimum distribution of income for society involves a progressive income tax. Mirrlees optimal income tax is a detailed theoretical model of the optimum progressive income tax along these lines. Over the last years the validity of the theory of optimal taxation was discussed by ...

  8. World taxation system - Wikipedia

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    A world taxation system or global tax is a hypothetical system for the collection of taxes by a central international revenue service. The idea has garnered currency as a means of eliminating tax avoidance and tax competition ; it has also aroused the ire of nationalists as an infringement upon national sovereignty.

  9. Legal history of income tax in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Once again, a taxpayer challenged the legality of the income tax. In Pollock v. Farmers' Loan and Trust Company (1895), [2] Charles Pollock sued the corporation in which he owned stock, contending that the corporation should never have paid the income tax because the tax was unconstitutional. In this case, the tax was paid on income from land.