The Observer illustrated an interesting topic of taxation. New York Senator Charles Schumer has introduced a call for a new type of taxation. He proposed “a tax on customer service calls being outsourced to another county” (The Observer, 2015). While the tax sounds a bit odd at first, there is actually for rhyme to the senator’s reasoning. The senator’s goal is to ultimately keep more jobs on United States soil. Many jobs in the United States have been lost to cheaper labor overseas. This proposal aims to bringing someone of those jobs back to America by implementing a high taxation on customer service phone calls that are being answered outside of the United States. Schumer’s policy states, “the tax per outsourced call would be 25 cents for the company. In addition to informing the caller of this, companies would be required to release reports quarterly on total calls and the percent outsourced” (The Observer, 2015). This would be a hefty tax if implemented and would frustrate many companies. However, the senator’s goal is job creation. The purpose of this homework is to analyze this proposed taxation, propose two reasons for and two reasons again Senator Schumer’s policy, and to then expand on my opinion of this policy.
Supporting Reasoning
1. The first reason to support this proposal is because it is aimed at one thing; job creation. After The Great Recession, people have been doing everything possible in order to create more jobs for the unemployed workers of
The pool cost the petitioner over $19,000, and we cannot accept his contention that such amount was spent primarily for therapy for his leg in view of the limited need for such therapy and the alternatives which were then available.
About 5 trillion dollars were given up by American citizens in 2014, why, taxes, they are all around us from your groceries, your clothes, your community roads, libraries, and many many more American items. The amount of money devoted to taxes is crazy and it only can get worse if we do not end this issue of unfairness and inequality among citizens. Which is why more people are becoming independant on higher classes and causing tax standards to raise and drop for many citizens. When others argue it is fair and acceptable for different based tax percentages and incomes to be applied so that it is put in more for higher class and less for lower classes. However, tax fairness has been debated and changed over many years, do you think taxes
Proposal: We need a permanent, federal government subsidized job program where those who want to work should be able to work. It should be available for all citizens and legal residents of America, including felons, disabled people, and those above the poverty line. It should truly be nationwide and uniform in its implementation. Finally, it should be permanent, as there are many people who cannot find employment even though the Great Recession is over. Program funds not used in times of prosperity can be allocated for future employment use during economic decline.
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On the surface, it is a good plan because people who are not able to get good paying jobs will get them since the government is requesting that businesses make this
During the post-revolution era in 1781, the adoption of the United States Constitution granted the federal government the authority to raise taxes. Consequently, the Constitution bestowed in Congress the power to impose and collect taxes, imposts, duties, and exercises, pay national debts, cater for the costs of defense, as well as that of the general welfare of all Americans (Weaver, 2016). For example, Congress imposed excise taxes on tobacco, distilled liquor, snuff, carriages, refined sugar, auctioned property, and assorted legal documents in its bid to pay off the debts of the Revolutionary War. Similarly, the United States tax system did not change during the Civil War. Congress passed the Revenue Legislation in 1861 to restore earlier excise taxes and to levy a tax on personal incomes to meet the demands of the war. Therefore, the United States tax system has been persistent in that what is taxed is contingent on the social purpose.
Taxes are a required aid from individual incomes or business profits collected by the government that funds certain activities and services is provided by the government for the people. Taxes in the United States can be originated all the way back to the 1760s. The current tax system the country has is a progressive tax. A progressive tax is a taxation system where higher incomes get taxed at higher percentages than those with lower incomes. The tax system that has been proposed that the economy should switch to is a flat tax. A flat tax is a system where all income would have to pay the same percentage towards taxes regardless of how much money they make. This has been a major controversy because of the major impacts switching the
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The history of the United States tax system is something that each and every person should understand. There are two main reasons that the history of the tax system is important. The first reason is that the knowledge of the how the tax system worked will help the people who are a part of the tax system process to make educated decisions upon future taxes and things which would affect the taxes. The second reason is that knowing about the history of the United States tax system will help the people making tax decision to avoid crucial mistakes that have occurred in the past. Not only will the decision makers be able to learn from previous mistakes, but they will also be able to know what a likely
The United States taxation system has had a longstanding debate regarding whether or not the taxes implicated on American citizens are justified. In general, the rates that citizens must pay are both too high for the lower-classes to have to pay, and too low for the upper-classes to have to pay. Much of the money collected from taxation goes into causes of less importance or is not managed correctly by the U.S. government. Among all of the fifty states, there are several philosophies accepted by each, which leads to a fluctuation in tax rates. American citizens are unfairly taxed by the U.S. government; therefore, the tax system must undergo a tax reform.
Are you aware that taxes have been around since the Ancient Egyptian, Roman, and Mesopotamian times as early as 3000 B.C.? (“Taxes in the Ancient World” U. Penn Almanac). Taxes are a crucial part of society’s economic functions as a whole. Taxes help us generate money to help build new roads, provide us with protection through services such as law enforcement, and help improve public education institutions. In other words, taxes help the United States create value for its citizens. As we all are aware, no system is perfect and there are times when our economy isn’t doing so well and also times when it’s really booming. The main subjects of discussion are: tax morale, wealth distribution and taxes, tax loopholes, off shore tax evasion, and possible reformations. What this paper analyzes and discusses is current economic issues that involve taxes and possible reformations to correct them.
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I’ve summed up the introduction of Taxation to these slight words. Taxation is defined as a way that the government able to generate or collect revenue from the citizen of one’s nation through different sources. As what I’ve learned from Taxation course that there are two types of taxation, direct which are paid by the taxpayer directly to the government, and indirect which are collected by an intermediary (like a retail store) from the consumer. The intermediary who will file the tax return later and forward the amount of the money to the government with the return. This tax is applicable to organizations and individuals. In this reflection, I would like to highlight what I learned of business and individual taxation, the experience on working with a group for the project and what challenges I faced and how I was able to get past.