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Digital goods are software programs, music, videos or other electronic files that users download exclusively from the Internet. [1] Some digital goods are free, others are available for a fee. The taxation of digital goods and/or services , sometimes referred to as digital tax and/or a digital services tax , is gaining popularity across the globe.
In 1996, three of the four Atlantic provinces—New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Nova Scotia—entered into an agreement with the Government of Canada to implement what was initially termed the "blended sales tax" (renamed to "harmonized sales tax") which would combine the 7% federal GST with the provincial sales taxes of those provinces; as part of this project, the PST portion ...
Texas allows two discounts for merchants, as incentives to prepay and timely file sales tax returns: a 0.5% discount if the sales tax return is timely filed and payments made, and an additional 1.25% discount for prepayment of taxes before filing.
Note that the taxes paid by both the manufacturer and the retailer to the government are 10% of the values added by their respective business practices (e.g. the value added by the manufacturer is $1.20 minus $1.00, thus the tax payable by the manufacturer is ($1.20 – $1.00) × 10% = $0.02).
The following table shows the tariff rate, in percentages, according to United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), [1] World Trade Organization, [2] and World Bank. [ 3 ] UNCTAD indicators are based on MFN (Most Favoured Nation) and effectively applied import tariff rates for major categories of non-agricultural and non-fuel ...
An excise (under definition B) has been defined as '"a tax upon manufacture, sale or for a business license or charter, as distinguished from a tax on real property, income or estates." [ 30 ] Both the federal and state governments levy excise taxes on goods such as alcohol, motor fuel, and tobacco products.
Tariffs have historically served a key role in the trade policy of the United States.Their purpose was to generate revenue for the federal government and to allow for import substitution industrialization (industrialization of a nation by replacing imports with domestic production) by acting as a protective barrier around infant industries. [1]
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 328 square miles (850 km 2), of which 323 square miles (840 km 2) is land and 5.1 square miles (13 km 2) (1.6%) is water. [ 10 ] The Wabash and Ohio rivers join in the northeastern part of the county.