The system introduced at that time was one of "objective" taxes that attempted to tax the "productive sources" of income i.e., land, buildings, and movable wealth.
"Right now, I guess, President Bush will get his two primary objectives, the tax cut and the education bill, and nothing else," said Senator Robert F. Bennett, Republican of Utah.
Combining environmental with employment objectives, ecological tax reform (ETR) envisages a double dividend.
He then listed his objectives including: tax credits to pay for college tuition of low to mid-level income Americans, covering insurance costs of small businesses for its sickest employees, and incentives for saving and buying automobiles with "good gas mileage".
Describing how this personal act of unlawfully purchasing tobacco can undermine global health objectives, reduce tax revenues that support education and social programs, contribute to the proliferation of organized crime, and weaken legitimate local economies will be effective only if the messages resonate with young adults.
"What's useful for entrepreneurs is to develop a business plan with goals and objectives, with taxes being a part of that," Mr. Markham said.
"You've got to ask," Pandey says, "what's the real objective of the tax?
"In the early phase, the objective of this tax is to change behaviour rather than to raise money," Ma said.
It requires action across Government - from ending Britain's uncritical support for the World Trade Organisation, to ensuring that environmental protection is a central objective of our tax system and at the heart of public spending decisions.
"Why take down the entire real estate industry with the ship when the objective was to tax a different industry?" James V. Camp, chairman of legislative affairs in California for a real estate trade group, told me this week.
"What I can tell you for certain is that our biggest tax objective in that next manifesto will be no tax on the minimum wage – we've got to incentivise people to get off benefits and to get back to work," he said.
