It consists of a kind of digressive drift, a cubist shattering of experience into shards of recollected fragments (Mr. Prieto calls his method "creating a pattern like a delicate construction of reeds"), and this imposes a taxing weight on the narrative pace.
Information presented includes classification, production, prices, trade, disappearance, tariff rates and excise taxes, weights and measures, saponification value, iodine number, melting point, titer, and fatty acids.
Pegging passenger vehicle taxes to weight, emission levels and fuel economy can be recommended on similar practical grounds.
Customers there are not distracted by the sound of cappuccino makers or by yet another self-help seminar on reducing either taxes or weight.
Since cigars are taxed by weight, the duty on a fat cigar is far higher than the 43% on a standard pack, according to the Tobacco Manufacturers Associationn.Even firms that hand-roll cigars are responding to these shifts.
Taxing by weight or THC avoids a much bigger problem: Cannabis prices will probably collapse.
When we weight tax rates, effective average corporate tax rates are comparable to other OECD countries, but effective marginal tax rates for investments in buildings and equipment are more than 2 percentage points higher for the U.S. than the average for the rest of the OECD countries.
Thanks in no small measure to the British government, which punched well above its weight, tax and transparency are firmly on the G8 radar.
Similarly, when we tax vehicles by weight, those who can get by most easily with a lighter vehicle will buy one.
A more nuanced, but perhaps more workable solution, would be to weight tax relief towards charities that work to alleviate poverty and suffering.
