commodity tax
21ad valorem tax — noun a tax levied on the difference between a commodity s price before taxes and its cost of production • Syn: ↑VAT, ↑value added tax • Hypernyms: ↑excise, ↑excise tax * * * a tax levied according to the value of the property, merchandise, etc.,… …
22value-added tax — noun a tax levied on the difference between a commodity s price before taxes and its cost of production • Syn: ↑VAT, ↑ad valorem tax • Hypernyms: ↑excise, ↑excise tax * * * noun [noncount] : a tax that is added to products at each stage of their… …
23value–added tax — value–ad·ded tax n: a tax levied at each addition of value in the processing of a raw material, the performance of a service, or the production and distribution of a commodity with each payer except the consumer reimbursed from payment at the… …
24indirect tax — in′direct tax′ n. bus a tax levied on a commodity that is paid by the consumer as part of the market price • Etymology: 1795–1805 …
25single tax — noun a system of taxation in which a tax is levied on a single commodity (usually land) • Hypernyms: ↑tax, ↑taxation, ↑revenue enhancement …
26value-added tax — noun Date: 1935 an incremental excise that is levied on the value added at each stage of the processing of a raw material or the production and distribution of a commodity and that typically has the impact of a sales tax on the ultimate consumer …
27selective sales tax — A sales tax confined to a particular commodity or a limited number of commodities, such as taxes upon sales of intoxicating liquors, cigarettes, gasoline, and other petroleum products. 47 Am J1st Sales T § 1 …
28COUNCILS OF THE LANDS — COUNCILS OF THE LANDS, the central institutions of Jewish self government in Poland and Lithuania from the middle of the 16th century until 1764. The bodies in question were the Council of the Four Lands (Heb. וַעַד אַרְבַּע אֲךָצוֹת) or … …
29Decriminalization of non-medical cannabis in the United States — United States non medical cannabis decriminalization laws (as of January 2009) Note: Federal law bans all forms of cannabis and THC as a schedule I drug, as per the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 …
30Decriminalization of non-medical marijuana in the United States — [ ] ColoradoIn Colorado, Amendment 44 would have legalized possession of 28.45 grams or less by adults age 21 and older, but the amendment was rejected by 60 40 percent. [cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/pages/results/states/CO/I/04/|… …
