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  2. Financial transaction tax - Wikipedia

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    In January 1984, Sweden introduced a 0.5% tax on the purchase or sale of an equity security. Hence a round trip (purchase and sale) transaction resulted in a 1% tax. In July 1986, the rate was doubled, and in January 1989, a considerably lower tax of 0.002% on fixed-income securities was introduced for a security with a maturity of 90 days or less.

  3. Domestic policy of the Stephen Harper government - Wikipedia

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    On March 6, 2007, the government announced over $1.5 billion in funding in Ontario for improving the city of Toronto's transit system including the extension of a subway line to Vaughan. $586 million of the funding went for a new power grid from Ontario to Manitoba that would provide cleaner hydro energy. [124]

  4. Sales taxes in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The sale or lease of motor vehicles for use on the road incurs an additional 0.3% tax, rental of a car for less than 30 days has an additional state/local tax of 8.9%. [211] When renting a car for less than 30 days in Seattle , the total sales tax is 18.6%.

  5. Pakistan - Wikipedia

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    Pakistan, [e] officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, [f] is a country in South Asia. It is the fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, [g] having the second-largest Muslim population as of 2023. Islamabad is the nation's capital, while Karachi is its largest city and financial centre.

  6. Demographics of Ontario - Wikipedia

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    There is a striking difference between the Toronto CMA [citation needed] (5,862,850) and the rest of Ontario (7,379,310); in particular, in the Toronto CMA visible minorities account for 51.4% of the population (3,011,900), whereas in the rest of Ontario the percentage of visible minorities in the overall population is much lower, at 11.8% ...

  7. Toronto Pearson International Airport - Wikipedia

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    In the domestic section of the arrivals level, there are some retailers both before and after security checkpoints, [35] such as 7-Eleven (convenience goods), which was renovated and expanded in late 2022 [36] and remains the only "dry" 7-Eleven location in Ontario as Pearson Airport does not allow the bulk sale of alcoholic beverages outside ...

  8. Electricity sector in Canada - Wikipedia

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    In April 1999, Ontario Hydro was split into five successor companies: Ontario Power Generation (OPG), in charge of generation; Hydro One, a transmission and distribution utility; the Independent Market Operator, responsible for the operation of a deregulated wholesale electric market in the province; the Electrical Safety Authority and the ...

  9. British Pakistanis - Wikipedia

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    The Pakistan government's Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis estimates that 1.26 million Pakistanis eligible for ... 0 1: 0.15: 2001 [304] 2 0 0 0 2: 0.31: 2005 [305] 4 ...