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15 votes
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Iceland is crowdsourcing ideas from the population on budget savings to ensure taxpayer money is well spent
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United States: What personal (non-business) tax software/program do you use?
Tax time again! I like to get this done as soon as possible to get it out of the way. I have all my tax documents at the ready, but several changes happened in my life last year (moved states,...
Tax time again!
I like to get this done as soon as possible to get it out of the way. I have all my tax documents at the ready, but several changes happened in my life last year (moved states, sold home, bought home, etc.) and the tax software I've been using over the last several years apparently "doesn't support" several of the tax forms (or even simply some of the boxes on the forms) I have for this year.Trying to avoid the "Big Two" if possible.
12 votes -
More liquor stores in Oakland California are selling produce, thanks to Saba Grocers and City tax initiative (2021)
17 votes -
Closing asset loophole can raise $100 billion in taxes, US Treasury now says
10 votes -
“Solidarity is the only thing that can save us”: An interview with Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix
10 votes -
Sweden abolishes tax on plastic bags despite warnings usage could rise – centre-right coalition government says consumption already below EU target
10 votes -
The secret IRS files: Trove of never-before-seen records reveal how the wealthiest Americans avoid income tax
43 votes -
Norway sees electric cars outnumber petrol models – sovereign wealth fund cushion has made it possible for government to offer green incentives to motorists
11 votes -
The carbon tax is good for Canadians. Why axe it?
17 votes -
Dutch will spend $2.7 billion on improving infrastructure to keep ASML
7 votes -
Sweden has announced controversial plans to scrap its tax on airline tickets from 2025
6 votes -
What works: Groundbreaking evaluation of climate policy measures over two decades
22 votes -
Could Britain's soaring taxes push energy companies to Norway? Taxes on oil and gas profits have risen from 40% to about 78%, prompting several to think about pulling out.
7 votes -
California’s restaurant industry can keep its controversial service fees
34 votes -
Google to charge new fee on ads in response to Canada’s digital services tax
12 votes -
‘Morally, nobody’s against it’: Brazil’s radical plan to tax global super-rich to tackle climate crisis
61 votes -
Tech giants should be made subject to a global tax for their use of people's personal data, according to Norway's Finance Minister Trygve Slagsvold Vedum
30 votes -
Denmark will introduce a levy on farm emissions in what is set to be one of the world's first carbon taxes on agriculture
26 votes -
Iceland wants to switch up its tourism tax to protect nature – and fight overtourism
27 votes -
Spotify hikes fees, passing on its tax burden, after the French government introduced a levy to support the nation's music industry
21 votes -
Why 295,000 businesses are in this little building
12 votes -
Experimental real property tax basis-set rate based on usable area per person
Random thought. What if we taxed property based on the area per person of the property, as opposed to sale value? Edit and quick intro to those who mostly rent: most real property in the US,...
Random thought. What if we taxed property based on the area per person of the property, as opposed to sale value?
Edit and quick intro to those who mostly rent: most real property in the US, especially residential property, is taxed yearly based on some variation of something called "fair market value," usually assessed by a local tax assessor's office
I'm proposing that a property would be taxed for every square meter of space per person in the designated property unit. It can't be totally simplified, but should be fairly straightforward. There could also be progressive brackets. It might not make make sense to apply it strictly per person, but rather for a typical use. That is, we would assume "single family residential" properties to house 3.4 (totally made up number) people per house and property.
The goal of this is to find a fair, market-driven incentive to build density into urban cores.
A similar approach could be applied to commercial space (but probably not industrial).
It could be coupled with a sales tax (currently missing in most real property tax regimes, at least in the US) to capture runaway property valuations in certain jurisdictions.
Alternatively, we could drop the property value based tax rate (but not eliminate it), and then add a per person-area surcharge.
It's not meant to increase revenue, although it could certainly be used that way. It could also be use to decrease revenue, and maybe that would be a good way to sell it. But at the end of the day, developers and residents would both have an incentive to pursue as dense development as possible, even if there is not a density driving pressure of desirablity, which only exists in a few really cool urban cores.
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Bread, how did they make it? Part IV: Markets, merchants and the tax man
7 votes -
California junk fee ban could upend restaurant industry
39 votes -
Sweden has a global reputation for championing high taxes and social equality, but it has become a European hotspot for the super rich
19 votes -
New Jersey is motivating telecommuters to appeal their New York tax bills. Connecticut may be next.
13 votes -
Wait, does America suddenly have a record number of bees?
27 votes -
Norway unveiled plans to remove a loophole used by the Nordic nation's richest – government attempts to drag more tax revenue out of the fleeing billionaires
15 votes -
The second soul, Part I (on salt)
6 votes -
Abolishing inheritance tax sent Stockholm's startup ecosystem soaring – tax cut could revive Britain's flagging economy
9 votes -
Why we can’t build better cities (ft. Not Just Bikes)
13 votes -
Destroying movies for fun and profit
14 votes -
Will US companies hire fewer engineers due to Section 174?
20 votes -
Legislators in Kentucky and other fossil states charge EV drivers more than double in taxes than ICE drivers
41 votes -
California gas tax revenue will drop by $6 billion, threatening roads
27 votes -
British trader Sanjay Shah has landed in Denmark after being extradited from the United Arab Emirates over tax fraud charges worth £1.46bn
6 votes -
The US Supreme Court case seeking to shut down wealth taxes before they even exist, has potential to end existing tax worth hundreds of billions
33 votes -
The ‘Georgists’ are out there, and they want to tax your land
31 votes -
Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax land value
33 votes -
Please explain tax credits to me (US)
I feel like I have a basic understanding of tax credits, but nothing so far as would make the most sense in what I want to know: I'm looking into buying a new car, and it looks like I can get a...
I feel like I have a basic understanding of tax credits, but nothing so far as would make the most sense in what I want to know: I'm looking into buying a new car, and it looks like I can get a 7500 tax credit for the car I'm interested in buying. My understanding is that these credits are "non-refundable" meaning I don't actually get that money back, but how does it still work? I pay into the income tax (I know, I don't want to know the benefits of doing this vs not, it's just easier for me to pay more and get some back when the time comes), so I always get a refund. Would my refund be higher then because I get a credit on the taxes that I paid in? Or would it be the same and my tax liability would be reduced?
I need someone to explain this to me like I'm 5, please!
15 votes -
Broken zipper? France will pay to get it fixed
16 votes -
Ford 'pausing' construction of Marshall EV battery plant
20 votes -
Iceland is turning to taxes to reduce the impact exponential growth in tourism has on its pristine wilderness
7 votes -
Sweden's minority-run coalition announced on Wednesday it would be cutting funding for climate and environmental measures next year
10 votes -
Sweden's right-wing government says it will turn its back on plastic bag tax from November 2024
20 votes -
The IRS plans to crack down on 1,600 US millionaires to collect millions of dollars in back taxes
48 votes -
Poland cuts tax for first-time homebuyers and raises it for those buying multiple properties
29 votes -
How unused gift cards power Delaware's economy
7 votes -
Applying taxes to beef products could be one way to reduce CO2 emissions, says the Danish Government
26 votes