Our organization is not in support of this. This new excise tax will become one more factor in the housing costs in the San Juan Islands. And the people who will be hurt the most are those people who are trying to get their first house. It raises the bar for everyone.
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The impacts are huge, particularly on the cost of living. Right now, different parties have different proposals, including a proposed reduction in the excise tax on petrol sales.
It's really the result of cumulative public health efforts to educate the public about the dangers of tobacco and also due to the imposition of excise taxes and state tobacco-control programs.
We believe there is insufficient Customs cover in the South West - that's across the whole range of duties that Customs and Excise are responsible for. That includes drugs, tobacco and the new security responsibilities. We would like to see more cover in the South West.
for a one-year suspension of the 4.3 cents-per-gallon excise tax on aviation fuel as the House of Representatives considers ways to facilitate recovery and mitigate the economic impact of Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita.
I think it's probably to do with the fact that the industry itself has some enemies, kind of neo-prohibitionists. There's always someone trying to basically put us out of business or increase our excise taxes or whatever.
EXCISE, n.' A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but by wretches hired by those to whom the excise is paid.
The IT manufacturing industry is glad that anomalies of inverted excise tariff structure for the computer manufacturing industry have been addressed. It will also encourage manufacturing of high-end products such as notebooks and servers.
Local government represents the cornerstone of the United States, and we fully support the critical role that localities play in protecting consumer and citizen rights. However, with 78 car rental excise taxes in 37 states, and 45 more such taxes pending or under discussion, we must speak out on behalf of our customers. These arbitrary taxes unfairly single out our customers and potentially interfere with interstate commerce by hindering free trade in the nationwide car rental industry.
No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains To tax our labours and excise our brains.
Last November, we thought that 2004 was going to be the peak year for real estate excise tax, ... We were forecasting that the market would slow down in '05 and then more in '06. What we've seen so far is that 2005 has been, every single month, substantially stronger than in 2004.
When you say it's a federal excise tax, you know, most of the time, oh it's the federal excise tax. And that's just understood that it's a tax you pay. Where exactly those funds go is something that's a mystery to all of us.
Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones.
We have also explained that the government has submitted the new tax bill and customs and excise draft law to the House of Representatives to support law enforcement,
If there's an excise tax, what that means is over the cycle we're going to have less earnings than we would have had, and therefore our ability and our willingness to invest is going to diminish.
The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.