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  2. Regional Transportation Authority (Illinois) - Wikipedia

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    The highlights of the 2008 amendments to the RTA Act include: The RTA sales tax was increased to 1.25% in Cook County, and 0.75% in the collar counties (from 1% and 0.25%, respectively), but one-third of the sales tax collected in the collar counties (i.e. 0.25%) is distributed directly to the counties [39] and the county boards may use that ...

  3. Stamp duty - Wikipedia

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    Stamp Duty Land Tax" (SDLT), a new transfer tax derived from stamp duty, was introduced for land and property transactions from 1 December 2003. SDLT is not a stamp duty, but a form of self-assessed transfer tax charged on "land transactions". On 24 March 2010, Chancellor Alistair Darling introduced two significant changes to UK Stamp Duty Land ...

  4. Property tax equalization - Wikipedia

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    Equalization is a step in property taxation to bring a uniformity to tax assessment levels across different geographical areas or classes of properties. Equalization is usually in the form of a uniform percentage of increase or decrease to each area or class of property.

  5. Ad valorem tax - Wikipedia

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    The Goods and Services Tax is a value-added tax of 10% on most goods and services sold in Australia. It was introduced by the Howard Government on 1 July 2000, replacing the previous federal wholesale sales tax system and designed to phase out the various state and territory taxes such as banking taxes, stamp duty and land value tax. While this ...

  6. Transfer tax - Wikipedia

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    Moore, 178 U.S. 41 (1900), confirmed that the estate tax was a tax on the transfer of property as a result of a death and not a tax on the property itself. The taxpayer argued that the estate tax was a direct tax and that, since it had not been apportioned among the states according to population, it was unconstitutional.

  7. Land and Buildings Transaction Tax - Wikipedia

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    By 2018, an estimated 90% of Scottish home buyers were paying a smaller amount or the same, compared with Stamp duty. [10] Generally, leases of residential property will be exempt from LBTT. For non-residential leases, Schedule 19 of the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (Scotland) Act will apply.

  8. Regional Transport Office - Wikipedia

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    The Regional Transport Office or District Transport Office or Regional Transport Authority (RTO/DTO/RTA) is an office administered by the State Governments constituted under Section 213 (1) of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 of India and is responsible for implementing the various provisions of this Act. It operates under the Transport Department ...

  9. Stamp duty in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Stamp duty land tax (SDLT) is a tax on land transactions in England and Northern Ireland. It was introduced by the Finance Act 2003. It largely replaced stamp duty with effect from 1 December 2003. SDLT is not a stamp duty, but a form of self-assessed transfer tax charged on "land transactions".