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A tax (also known as a "duty") is a financial charge or other levy imposed on an individual or a legal entity by a state or a functional equivalent of a state (e.g. tribes, secessionist movements or revolutionary movements). Taxes could also be imposed by a subnational entity.
Taxes may be part of a direct tax or indirect tax, and may be paid in money or as corvée labor. In modern, capitalist taxation systems, taxes are levied in money, but in-kind and corvée taxation are characteristic of traditional or pre-capitalist states and their functional equivalents.
Taxes are usually collected by a governmental agency such as the Internal Revenue Service in the United States. When taxes are not paid to a government's satisfaction, penalties such as fines, forfeiture, and imprisonment are carried out against the non-paying entity or individual. These penalties are also typically carried out by a governmental agency, such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the US. In most modern industrialized countries, when an individual fails to pay his government the taxes that that government demands of him, it will ultimately result in his imprisonment at the hands of the state.
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'King Canute' leaders think they can stop the rising seas with talk and taxation #g20
AmForty (T@ir) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:54:36 -0000
'King Canute' leaders think they can stop the rising seas with talk and taxation #g20
@ThinkPolitics re taxation - http://bit.ly/1UMJRJ - apologies for just sending a link but it sums it up better than I could!
schlumpf23 (colin kelleher) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:45:53 -0000
@ThinkPolitics re taxation - http://bit.ly/1UMJRJ - apologies for just sending a link but it sums it up better than I could!
FIXING global warming thru TAXES means control of a GLOBAL population thru Global TAXATION #ocra #tlot #tcot #hoax JohnLowney
armypatriot (teapartypatriot) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:41:39 -0000
FIXING global warming thru TAXES means control of a GLOBAL population thru Global TAXATION #ocra #tlot #tcot #hoax JohnLowney
@schlumpf23 that was considered, just concise is all. The point is, taxation is a necessity, the libertarian opinion is just not viable!
ThinkPolitics (ThinkPolitics) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:34:50 -0000
@schlumpf23 that was considered, just concise is all. The point is, taxation is a necessity, the libertarian opinion is just not viable!
@schlumpf23 Fair comment, we are all entitled to form our own opinions, the taxation question is one of fundamentals on which we disagree.
ThinkPolitics (ThinkPolitics) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:27:49 -0000
@schlumpf23 Fair comment, we are all entitled to form our own opinions, the taxation question is one of fundamentals on which we disagree.
"Sweden extending taxation into the virtual" http://bit.ly/1T7Si6 !
BonjoUBoss55 (Bonjo U. Boss) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:18:32 -0000
"Sweden extending taxation into the virtual" http://bit.ly/1T7Si6 !
A brief history of the Treasury - An official history of the Treasury.
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TodayÂ?s Treasury dates from around the Norman Conquest. Even before 1066, the Anglo-Saxon Treasury collected taxes (including the danegeld, first levied as a tribute to the Vikings to persuade them Â? sometimes unsuccessfully -to stay away) and controlled exp... ]
Dialogue Concerning the Exchequer - A late twelfth century essay concerning all that went on at the bi-yearly meetings of the medieval exchequer officials, and branches out into a description of all the sources of revenue of the English crown, and of the methods of collecting them. From the Medieval Sourcebook.
English Finance - Entry from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Brittanica. Courtesy of the LoveToKnow Corporation.
Taxation: A Brief history - The Inland Revenue's history of Income Tax.
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The English Revenue of Richard I - Article from the English Historical Review on the tax revenues received by Richard the Lionheart. Statistical data in included.
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The Lands and Revenues of Edward the Confessor - Article from the English Historical Review with statistical data on the royal revenues and landholdings of Edward the Confessor.
The National Archives: Taxation Records Before 1689 - This research guide to official records of medieval and early-modern taxation includes a history of lay and clerical taxes in England and Wales.
The Taxatio Database - A database containing the valuation, plus related details, of the English and Welsh parish churches and prebends listed in the ecclesiastical taxation assessment of 1291-2.
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