Do you like tattoo or body piercing? Since 2005, if you live in Arkansas – you have to be ready to pay 6-percent sales tax. This state applies the same tax to electrolysis. So, if you live in Arkansas and want to be seen a little bit different with a new tattoo or body attachments – try to do it in another state, so … Read more
Scientists found that the methane released by cows flatulence may bring up to 18% of greenhouse gasses in the Europe. So cow flatulence can be a key producer of methane and a leading cause of global warming. The slaughterhouses collect a lot of cows at one place and accumulate a large quantities of methane gas in one area. It caused to demand taxes on … Read more
The production of wild blueberries in the Maine is a subject to a 3/4 of a cent per pound tax. This tax is applied to every pound of wild blueberries sold, on top of regular taxes. People who grow, purchase, sell, store or works with them have to pay this tax because dealing with wild blueberries is one of the most important agricultural industries … Read more
European countries like to go after a Internet-based companies which are making a big revenue off their citizens and at the same time they are paying taxes. These taxes called as “Google taxes”, but they related to a different large Internet-based company. France likes to attempt to tax such a companies more than any other European country. Previously France considered a “culture tax” on … Read more
Canada has one of the top 10 world famous weird and fun taxes: in Canada, makers of children’s breakfast cereal are granted tax-exempt status if boxes with these cereals include free toys . This tax exemption is limited to toys that are not “beer, liquor, or wine.” It means that cereal packed with alcoholic “bonus toys”, get taxed normally in Canada.
Kansas taxes sales of payments for “any place providing amusement, entertainment or recreation services.” So there is a tax on hot air ballooning. Hot air balloons in Kansas, that are tethered to the ground and stay there have to be taxed, because physically their passengers don’t go anywhere. The use of tethered balloons taxed as entertainment. Hot air balloons that are piloted “some distance … Read more
New York City placed a special tax on prepared foods, so sliced bagels are taxed once as food and again as prepared food, thus creating a sliced bagel tax. Тhe vendors that sell bagels, which traditionally eaten by many New Yorkers, should levy tax. But not always. If you agree to have Breakfast with the whole bagel, not going to be taxed. But if … Read more
Tax on drugs (“the crack tax”) is the subject to illegal substances, including cocaine, marijuana and other drugs in Tennessee. Drug dealers are obliged to pay this tax anonymously at the state revenue office, where they receive a certificate proving payment of tax in case of arrest. If a drug dealer is arrested and there is no evidence of tax payment, the state may … Read more
The Government of Canada is switching to direct deposit payments. Direct deposit is a fast and convenient way for people to get their income tax refund & other credit,and benefit payments directly into their bank account without having to wait for a cheque. The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) would like to encourage taxpayers, both individuals and businesses, to enroll for direct deposit. The CRA … Read more
The Roman Emperor Augustus (63 BC–14 year A.D.) paid attention on the hobbies of the Romans to give expensive gifts to friends and the transfer of their property as inheritance to strangers. It forced him to impose a five percent tax on inheritance and gifts (The vicesima hereditatium – “twentieth of inheritance”). This time taxes usually went to military spending. But the inheritance and … Read more
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