In earlier times, and again today, governments have utilized taxation for other than merely fiscal purposes.
Increases in the level of CO2 tax on fossil fuels have served mostly fiscal purposes with reduced CO2 emissions being only a side benefit.
The state forces the economy away from barter for its own fiscal purposes.Mr Goodhart used monetary history to test these competing theories.
A fucking accident?" He doesn't say a lot, old Crommers, but when he does there's no messing about, and the script is peppered with great lines for TC ("Do you want the king to huddle indoors like a sick girl? "That would be ideal for fiscal purposes").
And, Michel adds, there is a "consensus growing that information exchange for tax and fiscal purposes alone is something to be promoted". It's not just about fighting terrorism or money laundering anymore.
It would provide even more powerful market signals to encourage emissions reductions, serve broader fiscal purposes and thereby make for a better model for federal legislation.
But economic considerations did not influence Augustus' policies much (customs tariffs, for instance, were for fiscal, not protective, purposes), nor did he build harbour works at Ostia, Rome's port.
Linking data originally gathered for fiscal or regulatory purposes to describe environmental hazards, exposures, and health outcomes raises concerns about the validity of variables, indicators, and indices derived from them.
Each country would insure itself against a downward lurch in its economy by running a balanced budget or, in good times, a surplus.These fiscal rules had another purpose, which was often given greater emphasis: to prevent imprudent countries from imposing costs on others.
One of its provisions bans using its funds to transfer into the United States any Guantánamo detainee this fiscal year — even for the purpose of prosecution.
