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Hey Congress, Why Don’t You…? Tax Bad Behaviors

31 August 2009

Donna Peeples writes:
I have seen a lot of articles in the paper about taxing sodas and foods that are bad for you. I say, “Why not?”
I used to be a smoker. At one point, I was up to two packs a day. When New Jersey raised their cigarette tax, I stopped because [...]

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Ask the taxgirl: Deductibility of Booze

3 June 2009

Taxpayer asks:
Thanks for taking the time to consider my question.
I travel extensively for my job. When I travel, I have an expense account for meals and hotels. My company recently moved to a “no alcohol” policy on expense accounts. We cannot put any alcohol on our expense accounts and we cannot apply [...]

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Nevada Prostitutes Support Sex Tax

9 April 2009

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Nevada legislators got an earful (and an eyeful) on Tuesday during a hearing about whether to tax prostitutes. The tax would be $5 per sex act and would raise more than $2 million per year for the state (I did the math on that one for you, it’s 400,000). [...]

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Sin Taxes Hit UK

13 March 2008

I’ve posted before about sin taxes – this notion of using tax as a means of controlling or modifying behavior.
In the UK, the Chancellor delivered the new budget this week. The budget included little in the way of new or increased taxes since the UK is in the throes of many of the same [...]

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