Sentence examples for chronic tax from inspiring English sources

They are driven by rising health care costs and chronic tax shortfalls.

Mr. Hallyday has been transformed into a national treasure, who, despite multiple divorces and chronic tax troubles, can seemingly do no wrong.

The county treasurer who arranged the tax sales, Wade Kapszukiewicz, said they were aimed at "out-of-town land speculators" and the most chronic tax delinquents, and were intended to avoid the elderly and disabled.

Despite a revenue shortfall caused by the economic contraction and chronic tax evasion, Athens achieved a giant fiscal adjustment of seven percentage points in the first year of its bailout.

The Greek government has told its eurozone creditors it has a novel way of tackling the country's chronic tax evasion culture – wiring students, tourists, and housewives for sound and video to spy on tax dodgers while posing as shoppers and customers.

He admitted that after winning power on a promise to end austerity, he had "spent more time negotiating than governing" and was critical of Greece's failings as a society, citing a history of clientelism, corruption and chronic tax evasion that had "run riot".

"The president's plan does nothing but damn us to becoming Greece," Graham said, failing to mention that Greece, a small island with limited natural resources and international clout and a chronic tax-evasion problem, is nothing like the United States.

Berry's type of touring style, traveling the "oldies" circuit in the 1970s (where he was often paid in cash by local promoters) added ammunition to the Internal Revenue Service's accusations that Berry was a chronic income tax evader.

They suffer from a chronic shortfall of tax revenues, which they partly fill by expropriating land from farmers and selling it to developers at a hefty markup.

But today, aging of the population and increased prevalence of chronic diseases is taxing health care systems thus demanding broader implementation and expansion of such models [ 5].

Georgia has historically suffered from a chronic failure to collect tax revenues; however, since 2004 the government has simplified the tax code, improved tax administration, increased tax enforcement, and cracked down on petty corruption, leading to higher revenues.