fixing some of the glaring irrationalities in the tax system would have as big an impact on medium-term growth prospects as anything else mr osborne is likely to announce in his budget.
even so, the idea of tackling obesity via the tax system has some serious flaws.
即便如此,通过税收系统来控制肥胖的想法还是存在一些严重的缺陷。
the budget surplus he inherited is now a deficit, the fiscal hole in america’s retiree programmes is bigger than ever, the tax system is an unstable, patched-up mess.
if you think the tax system is unfair, blame the people who created it, not the financiers who took advantage of it.
如果你认为税收体系是不公正的,责怪创造它的人吧,别责怪从中获利的金融家.
pensions are subsidised through the tax system to generate a lump sum that can be used to buy a retirement income to prevent the elderly from becoming a burden on taxpayers.
thanks to its reliance on income taxes, america—by some measures—has the most progressive tax system in the oecd.
由于对所得税的依赖,美国-通过一些措施-拥有oecd国家中最先进的税收系统。
when authorities tinker with the tax system to favour some forms of capital over another, the distortions they create usually come at a cost.
当局将税收体系去使一些形式的资本相对其他资本获利时,他们创造的扭曲一般会产生成本.
the mirrlees review has some useful ideas on how to square the circle: indeed, perhaps its biggest message is that thinking holistically about the tax system helps resolve some of these conflicts.