The desperate cunning scheme to get Greeks to pay property taxes by bundling them with electricity bills didn’t last long. You guessed it, people stopped paying their electricity bills and now it looks like the power company – which had to be bailed out last month – has stopped even trying to collect the levy.…
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Amazon seals sales tax deal with Texas – Financial Times
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Boston GlobeAmazon seals sales tax deal with TexasFinancial TimesBy Barney Jopson in New York Amazon has struck an unexpected deal with Texas to start collecting sales tax from consumers at the start of July, in a further sign of its readiness to accep…
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The Problem With Flat-Tax Fever
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November 5, 2011
The Problem With Flat-Tax Fever
By ROBERT H. FRANK
CLOSE watchers of presidential politics weren’t surprised to see many of this year’s Republican hopefuls proposing to replace the nation’s progressive income tax with a flat tax…
