principles of taxation

We study the principles of taxation more fully in Chapter 16.

Most would find Adam Smith's canons or basic principles of taxation attractive.

Member of the Commission. - We can disagree on certain principles of taxation, which is always a rather sensitive matter.

The flat tax tends to founder politically because in the end, voters are more interested in what happens to their own taxes than they are in the principles of taxation.

Right-wing think tanks like the Heritage Foundation have blithely brushed aside the normal principles of taxation and their usual opposition to industrial policy - not to mention their usual solicitude for states' rights!

He published his Avis sur l'assiette et la repartition de la taille (1762-1770), and as president of the Société d'agriculture de Limoges offered prizes for essays on the principles of taxation.

Regarding the report itself, the Group of Independents for a Europe of Nations has voted in favour of the amendments spelling out the need to harmonise the basic principles of taxation with OECD members.

Madam President, as crucial as it is to insist on common principles of taxation in a single market, it is as vital, however, to adopt a clear position against the dominant tendency in the States of the European Union towards creeping tax increases.

By Petty's time, England was engaged in war with Holland, and in the first three chapters of 'Treatise of Taxes and Contributions', Petty sought to establish principles of taxation and public expenditure, to which the monarch could adhere, when deciding how to raise money for the war.