Excise taxes

Settlers in the American backcountry often protested to express the grievances with the Federal Government and the regulations and policies they set in place. Taxes of goods and crops were the root for the Whiskey and Shay Rebellions. The Shay Rebellion raised awareness for the need of s a stronger central government. Referring to the Shay Rebellion, historian Leonard L. Richards quotes, "fundamentally altering the course of U.S. history." Farmers in Massachusetts in 1786 were fed up with the…

On March 3rd, 1791, the federal government, with George Washington as acting President, had passed an excise tax on whiskey. The farmers mostly grew the grains, however giving their location in the western counties of Pennsylvania, made grain shipments near impossible to the east. Traveling with shipments were difficult and very time consuming because the Allegheny Mountains separated the west from the east. Almost all farmers, from small to lager, kept their whiskey stills and continued to make…

Avoiding establishing legal precedent so as to deflect future ‘forays’ would be paramount; a gross excise tax upon ad revenue—one of Time Warner’s primary purposes for this whole endeavor, second only to the spread of their influence—would be imposed to abide censorship laws and discourage the business simultaneously. In addition to the tax, I would define…

Introduction Multistate taxation typically occurs when corporations do business activities in more than one state. Due to the activity in multiple states, the states need to incur the taxes towards that company. In order to understand multistate taxation, we must first understand the role of sales and use tax. After defining the purpose and background information of sales and use tax, it will set up a course to explain nexus and the relationship with multistate taxation. Corporations have to…

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with the balance of the losses carried over from prior years). The Trump campaign’s response said nothing about whether the candidate has ever paid income taxes. It only claimed that he “paid hundreds of millions of dollars in property taxes, sales and excise taxes, real estate taxes, city taxes, state taxes, employee taxes and federal taxes.” Leaked excerpts of Trump’s 1995 tax returns showed huge losses that the real estate mogul could have used to offset other income and zero out his income…

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a key cause of global warming and other environmental damage according to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). A green tax is an excise tax that could provide considerable environmental pollution relief by promoting environmentally sustainable practices via economic incentives. As part of President Obama’s administration’s Green initiative, a policy implementation of a green tax on carbon would greatly benefit the United States’ environment and economy…

favorable taxes for both, government and citizens. It gets even harder with economic environment becoming more and more complex. E-commerce is one of the biggest challenges for governments to tax transactions properly. Though, it was hard even more before e-commerce challenge. Governments of different countries should have made their tax policies according to unique nature of their homeland as well as to international trades of the country. In organizing their tax policies most controversial…

The Articles of Confederation were ratified in 1781 and contained many weakness that would be changed in The Constitution. One weakness of the The Articles of Confederation was that the States had too much power and there was not a powerful enough central government. Another issue The Constitution attempted to solve was that central government did not have enough power to tax. In both The Articles of Confederation and The Constitution, the States maintained some of the same powers. The…

Nazi Germany, back in the early 1900s, was believed to be a paragon society. Much like the United States today, it was believed by the German people to be the pinnacle of human achievement and togetherness. By use of charisma and powerful speaking, the Nazi regime rose to power after promising many things that ultimately they would never be able to deliver on. After assuming command, the man in power began to show his true colors, and by then it was too late. Too much dismay, there are too…