punitive taxes

"In 2012 the Government has got to tackle the punitive taxes on beer.

Raises above that will be penalized by extremely high punitive taxes.

Since most Americans are kept honest by withholding, "the middle class and the poor pay punitive taxes to make up the deficiency."

Under the economic reform plan, state enterprises must now pay punitive taxes if they raise their wages above certain ceilings.

This was not yet the country of people ground down by punitive taxes or the privations of war.

The report finds that punitive taxes create an economic environment where economic agents are not left with any incentive to produce.

Fulminating clerics, soldiers quartered in the village, punitive taxes imposed?

Soybean futures plunged sharply as Washington announced punitive taxes on European wine.

Even during last spring's spike in prices, no Democrat advocated price controls or punitive taxes on Big Oil.

This goal has been undermined in recent years by punitive taxes, perverse incentives in a corrupted welfare system and a lack of job creation.

The tobacco companies have walked out, saying it would be futile for them to negotiate further with lawmakers who are mostly interested in punitive taxes and penalties.

The A.K.P. has all but destroyed Turkey's fledgling wine industry with punitive taxes.

Recently, the Croats put their own punitive taxes on vacation homes owned by Serbs on the picturesque Adriatic coast.

With one exception, similar delays in the past have not resulted in negotiated settlements and the United States has gone ahead and collected the punitive taxes.

Taxes Often Become Permanent Once imposed, punitive taxes often become permanent.

The display manufacturers' group, to which OIS belongs, originally sought punitive taxes on a broad range of flat-panel displays.

One inexpensive way of doing this is to establish punitive taxes on vacant properties, which contribute to urban decay, and lower taxes on other property owners.

THE United States, moving a step closer to a transatlantic trade war, plans to announce punitive taxes on European imports as early as today.

The American threat included the possibility of gradually expanding the punitive taxes to cover $1 billion of European farm goods if an agreement is not reached quickly.

Punitive taxes - and the insidious rhetoric that is invariably used to justify them, and then to raise them again - would eat away at the working spirit.

The chances of the U.S. following the U.K. in imposing punitive taxes on bank bonuses appear to be slim to none.

Punitive taxes usually come with short grace periods before they are actually collected, but Washington trade lawyers could recall only one case that had been settled during a grace period.

It has rejected the use of punitive taxes to discourage proliferation of company cars, on the grounds that this would increase private ownership of older and less efficient vehicles.

Serbia is boycotting goods from Slovenia, the richest republic, and recently imposed punitive taxes on goods coming from both Croatia and Slovenia.

The development of checking accounts at U.S. banks was in order to avoid punitive taxes on state bank notes that were part of the National Banking Act.