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Florida's consumer confidence remains flat amid mixed economic news

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created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Florida's consumer confidence remained flat at 72 in October, a level more in line with economists? expectations than the initial increase that was recorded last month, according to a new University of Florida ...


Study separates russian flat tax myth and fact

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created Jun 17, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Proponents of a flat rate income tax often point to Russia's 2001 switch to a 13 percent flat tax as nothing short of an economic miracle.





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Top lawmaker wants mileage-based tax on vehicles

Technology / Energy

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (13) | comments 38

(AP) -- A House committee chairman said Tuesday that he wants Congress to enact a mileage-based tax on cars and trucks to pay for highway programs now rather than wait years to test the idea.


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Europe bids to tax personal fuel consumption

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (8) | comments 5

A Europe-wide tax on personal or household fuel consumption was proposed on Friday as EU finance ministers met to discuss who should pay what in the fight against global warming.


Briefs: Telecoms challenge Kentucky tax changes

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created Nov 22, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An overhaul of Kentucky's tax code has resulted in a legal challenge from major wireless phone companies.


'Unfunded liabilities' a financial myth, expert says

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created Apr 01, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

A growing chorus of complaints about the U.S. government’s “unfunded” debts may be unsettling, but no cause to become unnerved, a University of Illinois tax expert says.


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Mobile multimedia revenues tipped to dethrone text

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Multimedia services will surpass text messaging this year as the main source of mobile operators' non-voice revenue in the Asia-Pacific region, industry analyst IDC said Monday.


City dwellers bear disproportionate federal tax burden

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created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Live in an expensive city? Think you pay too much in federal taxes? If so, a study in the current issue of the Journal of Political Economy finds that you're exactly right.


Only tax increase can cure Illinois budget woes, study says

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created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Tax increases are the only solution to a widening budget crisis that a new study says has landed Illinois among the nation's most financially troubled states, a soon-to-be-released report by a team of University of Illinois ...


Study looks at effect of high foreclosure rates on local tax bases

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created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Foreclosed homes and unsustainable growth can wreck the tax base of local governments. That’s the warning being issued by Auburn University’s Center for Governmental Services following its study of newly ...


Texas wind farm plan creates controversy

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created Dec 13, 2005 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Controversy swirled in Sarita, Texas, during a public hearing about what would be the first large wind energy project along the Texas Gulf Coast.


Opposition grows to U.S. phone-tax hike

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created Dec 06, 2005 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A Washington group battling a proposed hike in the Universal Service Fund telephone tax says complaints from irate citizens are pouring into the capital.



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