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  2. Indirect tax - Wikipedia

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    An indirect tax (such as a sales tax, per unit tax, value-added tax (VAT), excise tax, consumption tax, or tariff) is a tax that is levied upon goods and services before they reach the customer who ultimately pays the indirect tax as a part of market price of the good or service purchased. Alternatively, if the entity who pays taxes to the tax ...

  3. The Difference Between Direct and Indirect Taxes - AOL

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    The income tax is a good example of a direct tax. A worker earns income and is required to pay a portion of it directly to the government. Like many, but not all direct taxes, the income tax is ...

  4. Excise tax in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Excise tax in the United States is an indirect tax on listed items. Excise taxes can be and are made by federal, state, and local governments and are not uniform throughout the United States. Certain goods, such as gasoline, diesel fuel, alcohol, and tobacco products, are taxed by multiple governments simultaneously. [1]

  5. Value-added tax - Wikipedia

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    Value Added Tax (VAT) is an indirect tax levied on the value creation or addition. The concept of VAT in Nepal was introduced in FY 2049/50 but the act was developed in BS 2050. VAT was implemented in 1998 and is the major source of government revenue.

  6. Tax - Wikipedia

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    An economic definition, by Atkinson, states that "...direct taxes may be adjusted to the individual characteristics of the taxpayer, whereas indirect taxes are levied on transactions irrespective of the circumstances of buyer or seller." [30] According to this definition, for example, income tax is "direct", and sales tax is "indirect".

  7. List of taxes - Wikipedia

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    Direct tax is a tax paid by a person, as opposed to a tax levied on a business that the person indirectly pays. Double taxation is when a tax is paid twice on the same income or item. Indirect tax is a tax collected by an intermediary (such as a store) on behalf of the person who actually is required to pay (such as a customer)

  8. Excise - Wikipedia

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    For example, the city of Anchorage, Alaska charges a cigarette tax of $1.30 per pack, which is on top of the federal excise tax and the state excise tax. In 2011, the United States federal excise tax on gasoline was 18.4 cents per gallon (4.86 ¢/L) and 24.4 cents per gallon (6.45 ¢/L) for diesel fuel .

  9. 2008-03-26 Commodities are No Country for Old Men

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    fundamentally depart from traditional practice and policy, e.g. indirect intervention into the collapse of Bear Stearns (which sum have dubbed the end of global-free market capitalism) and unprecedented capital infusions and rate cuts. 1 As central bankers prove themselves ineffective,