They promise to spend the additional VAT receipts received from the higher than expected fuel prices on subsidising rural garages, promoting alternative fuels and lowering vehicle excise duty for fuel-efficient cars.
On the other hand, a purely revenue duty will not cause resources to be invested in industries producing the taxed goods or close substitutes for such goods, but it will divert resources toward the production of those goods and services upon which the additional government receipts are spent.
Under the plan, the government hopes to collect 800 million euros ($1.2 billion) in additional tax receipts this year by introducing a special tax that will amount to a 50 percent cut on the traditional Christmas bonus given to Portuguese workers, equivalent to one month of salary.
Gaining x dollars in additional tax receipts for the German nation or the populist gratification of punishing "rich tax evaders"–shouldn't be worth cutting a deal with crooks and actively supporting theft.
After the adjusting entry had been made, personnel in the GYMCL finance department discovered additional warehouse receipts that had not been included in the January 2006 count.
The report also suggested extra tax receipts generated by additional extraction could be used to offset initial financial support for carbon capture storage (CCS), and help it compete better with other low carbon power generation technologies.
The age- and therapy-adjusted odds ratio associating receipt of an additional mammogram compared with receipt of no mammogram was 0.77 (95% confidence interval [CI] 0.53-1.1).
