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U.S. intensive chicken farming led to the 1961–1964 "Chicken War" with Europe. The Chicken Tax is a 25 percent tariff on light trucks (and originally on potato starch, dextrin, and brandy) imposed in 1964 by the United States under President Lyndon B. Johnson in response to tariffs placed by France and West Germany on importation of U.S. chicken. [1]
Tax and Customs Service (Polish: Służba Celno-Skarbowa) is the customs service of the Republic of Poland and is the uniformed and armed law enforcement agency component operating its own tactical units, within the National Revenue Administration (Krajowa Administracja Skarbowa; KAS) subordinate to the Polish Ministry of Finance. [1]
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During September 2011 WikiLeaks began auctioning items on eBay to raise funds. [270] Wikileaks started accepting bitcoin in 2011 as a currency which could not be blocked by financial institutions or a government. [271] [272] [273] In 2012, WikiLeaks raised $68,000 through the Wau Holland Foundation and had expenses more than $507,000. [269]
Murray Rothbard argued in The Ethics of Liberty in 1982 that taxation is theft and that tax resistance is therefore legitimate: "Just as no one is morally required to answer a robber truthfully when he asks if there are any valuables in one's house, so no one can be morally required to answer truthfully similar questions asked by the state, e.g ...
The tax rate was 30 percent of excess profits with the top corporate tax rate rising from 45% to 47%, a 70 percent ceiling for the combined corporation and excess profits taxes. [ 11 ] In 1991, some members of Congress sought unsuccessfully to pass an excess profits tax of 40 percent upon the larger oil companies as part of energy policy.
Now, this is perhaps the most complicated and long article in this list. However, you'll find many surprises once you read it. See also Operation Condor. John Zegrus: Turned up in Japan in 1959, claiming to be a war hero and a military recruiter for the UAR (and possibly also claimed to be from Africa). His true identity and motives are still a ...