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  2. Motoring taxation in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Since 2002 policy cues have been given using the income tax system to encourage the purchase of company and personal cars with low emissions. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] In March 2005, a graduated vehicle excise duty system, with tax bands based on CO 2 ratings, was introduced as an incentive to purchase vehicles with lower emission ratings.

  3. Value-added tax in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    VAT is an indirect tax because the tax is paid to the government by the seller (the business) rather than the person who ultimately bears the economic burden of the tax (the consumer). [4] Opponents of VAT claim it is a regressive tax because the poorest people spend a higher proportion of their disposable income on VAT than the richest people. [5]

  4. Missing trader fraud - Wikipedia

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    Trader C now sells the telephones to a German company, which may well be honest. No VAT is charged on intra-community trades, so the German company pays €1,500,000 free of VAT. So far the three conspirators have made altogether a legitimate profit of €500,000 on buying the mobile telephones for €1,000,000 and selling them for €1,500,000.

  5. 1994 United Kingdom budget - Wikipedia

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    In his budget of 2 July 1997, Chancellor Gordon Brown announced VAT on domestic fuel would be reduced to 5% from 1 September 1997. [6] A 1997 research paper prepared by the House of Commons Library indicated the 8% VAT rate raised £850m [v] in 1994–95, and £1.1bn [w] in 1995–96. [6]

  6. Purchase Tax - Wikipedia

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    The 33.33% rate was increased to 66% for cars costing over £1,000 in 1947 and this rate was extended to all cars from 1951. In 1953, it was reduced to 50%. [4] In connection with the accession of the UK to the European Economic Community, [5] the Purchase Tax was abolished on 2 April 1973 and replaced by the Value Added Tax (VAT), currently 20%.

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    A winter storm is expected to begin impacting the Central Plains by Saturday night, with heavy snow and significant icing potential spreading eastward to the Mid-Atlantic by early next week.

  8. Trump complains that US flags will be half-staff on his ...

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    President-elect Donald Trump complained on Friday that American flags would still be lowered to half-staff in honor of the late President Jimmy Carter during Trump's Jan. 20 inauguration.

  9. Value-added tax - Wikipedia

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    VAT = Valued Added Tax; BTW = Belasting op toegevoegde waarde South Korea 10% 0% (essential foodstuffs) VAT = bugagachise (Korean: 부가가치세; Hanja: 附加價値稅) Sri Lanka [155] 18% 0% VAT = Valued Added Tax has been in effect in Sri Lanka since 2001. On the 2001 budget, the rates have been revised to 12% and 0% from the previous 20% ...