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Sales taxes are imposed only on taxable transfers of goods or services. The tax is computed as the tax rate times the taxable transaction value. Rates vary by state, and by locality within a state. [5] Not all types of transfers are taxable. The tax may be imposed on sales to consumers and to businesses.
September 13, 2024 at 5:12 AM. A Florida school board has spent more than $100,000 to keep a children's picture book about a same-sex penguin pair off its library shelves. The Escambia County ...
Major book publishers have sued the US state of Florida over a law that allows schools to ban certain books from their student libraries. The lawsuit, filed on Thursday by publishers including ...
The rate for GST, effective since 1 October 2010 as implemented by the National Party, is 15%. [73] This 15% tax is applied to the final price of the product or service being purchased and goods and services are advertised as GST inclusive. Reduced rate GST (9%) applies to hotel accommodation on a long-term basis (longer than 4 weeks).
A 2023 analysis by The Washington Post found that a majority of book challenges in over 100 school districts from the 2021–2022 school year were filed by just 11 people. [30] Based on a survey by PEN, about 10,000 books were banned from US schools by Republican-led censorship laws in the 2023/2024 academic year.
New College of Florida, a public liberal arts school in Sarasota, ... activists and alumni pick through discarded books from the school's Gender and Diversity Center on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024.
Federal income tax rates have been modified frequently. Tax rates were changed in 34 of the 97 years between 1913 and 2010. [156] The rate structure has been graduated since the 1913 act. Total tax revenue (not adjusted for inflation) for the U.S. federal government from 1980 to 2009 compared to the amount of revenue coming from individual ...
New College of Florida students, activists and alumni pick through discarded books from the school’s Gender and Diversity Center in Sarasota, Florida (via REUTERS)