Excise Tax

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• GOP Wants to Put Tanning Bed Tax Where the Sun Don’t Shine

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 729
  The 5% “Botax” on medical cosmetic procedures like lip-plumping injectibles was deflated on the Senate floor , replaced with a 10% fake bake shakedown that had GOP Senator turning all shades of red, and saying really stupid things about taxing sunblock and trips to the beach. In reality, a 10% surcharge on ...
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• IRS Announces 2010 Air Transportation Tax Rates

  
  Roni Deutch: The Tax Lady Blog — Authority: 436
  In a new press release yesterday, the IRS announced the 2010 inflation adjustments on excise taxes for that apply to the domestic segments of taxable air transportation and to the use of international air facilities. The Fiscal Year 2010 Federal Aviation Administration Extension Act, Part II, ...
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• Senate Passes Health Care Bill

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 634
        The Senate passed health care reform by a 60-39 margin shortly after 7:00 a.m. While passage of this bill shows the momentum continues toward health care reform, the Senate bill itself doesn’t live up to the kind of reform we need. The bill has many positive features, but it falls short in ...
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• An Exchange About the Excise Tax With Ezra Klein of the Washington Post

  
  http://www.ourfuture.org/blog — Authority: 654
  Ezra Klein has responded thoughtfully to my criticism of him.  I felt he should have mentioned the numerous studies which challenge the assumptions behind the excise tax, given his strong support for the tax. Im glad hes done that.  After all, the tax is expected to affect one in every five benefit plans (by 2013 ...
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• ObamaCares Longshoremen Rules: Cost-control and taxes for some, but not for others.

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  President Obama praised the Senate yesterday for clearing a 60-40 procedural vote on his health plan in the dead of night and "standing up to the special interests whove prevented reform for decades and who are furiously lobbying against it now." Theyre furiously lobbying all right—not against ObamaCare but for the ...
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• A Respected Actuary Says the Excise Tax Is Unfair, Wont Work

  
  http://www.ourfuture.org/blog — Authority: 654
  Nothing brings the readers a-runnin like the word "actuary" in a headline - especially at holiday time! Well, maybe not ... but this is important: An actuary with the respected Milliman firm has analyzed the excise tax and come to some striking conclusions. The tax may "sound reasonable," he says, but will have ...
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• Lucky That Longshoremen Get Tan Naturally

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 421
  …otherwise, Senator Reid’s “manager’s amendment” to the health care reform bill would be a “wash” for them. A snow-day CQ story by Richard Rubin exposed the sillier side of how a health care reform bill is made (emphasis added): The amendment also would replace a proposed 5 percent excise tax on ...
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• What Your Favorite Blogger May Not Be Telling You About Health Reform

  
  http://www.ourfuture.org/blog — Authority: 654
  The progressive  "journo/blogospere" is sharply split over the Senate health bill.  Some, like Jane Hamsher and Matt Taibbi , are saying "kill it."  Others, like Paul Krugman, Ezra Klein, and Jonathan Cohn, are saying "pass it" - as is.  Steve Benen says " its worth appreciating the vibrancy, energy, and ...
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• What Your Favorite Blogger May Not Be Telling You About Health Reform

  
  Night Light — Authority: 467
  The progressive  "journo/blogospere" is sharply split over the Senate health bill.  Some, like Jane Hamsher and Matt Taibbi , are saying "kill it."  Others, like Paul Krugman, Ezra Klein, and Jonathan Cohn, are saying "pass it" - as is.  Steve Benen says " its worth appreciating the vibrancy, energy, and ...
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• Clarus: CleanTech industry news

  
  Wellington Financial Blog - News, Views & Purviews — Authority: 127
  Having led the $50 million IPO syndicate for Wellington Financial Fund III portfolio co. Biox (see prior post “ Biox looks set to raise $50 million in IPO ” Nov 28-09), investment bank Clarus Securities is playing close attention to developments in the biodiesel world: Biodiesel Tax Credit Extension ...
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• Obamas Planned 400% Excise Rip Off Tax

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Obamas Planned 400% Excise Rip Off Tax Politics / US Politics Dec 21, 2009 - 05:09 AM By: Michael_S_Rozeff The Wall Street Journal brings more bad news. A headline reads "Lawmakers Weigh a Wall Street Tax." The first mention of this was in October. The proposal has not died as Congress seeks new ways to finance its ...
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• Revision gives nonprofit insurers tax breaks

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 463
  Among the changes Senate Democratic leaders made to the massive health care package unveiled Saturday was giving nonprofit health insurance companies a limited exemption from the excise tax levied on insurers, a revision pushed by Sen. Carl Levin, who is a major recipient of campaign contributions from mega-nonprofit ...
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• Bill nip-tuck: Botax out, Tantax in

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 463
  Want to look younger? Forget the tanning bed; get those Botox injections instead. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, under pressure from doctors, has inserted a little noticed provision in his "managers amendent" to the health care bill that kills the Botax and enacts a new Tantax. "The 5 percent excise tax on ...
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• The Senate Health Bill: The Price of Everything

  
  http://www.ourfuture.org/blog — Authority: 654
  Our new piece on the politics and policy of the Senates health reform deal is up at The Huffington Post, and it addresses the excise tax at several points: "if you take that new revenue, add the unfair tax on higher-cost benefit plans (studies demonstrate its unfairness), throw in the pay cut for doctors, and toss ...
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• Were Not Switzerland (expanded)

  
  http://www.ourfuture.org/blog — Authority: 654
  The pro-Senate health bill contingent keeps trotting out the example of Switzerland to buttress their arguments.  The comparison doesnt work, and the excise tax would make the differences even greater.  First or all, Switzerland is a wealthier country: OECD figures show that the median household income there in ...
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• Washington Post Analysis Strikes at the Excise Tax

  
  http://www.ourfuture.org/blog — Authority: 654
  Business columnist and Fortune Senior Editor Allan Sloan just wrote a piece in the Washington Post about the excise tax. Its smart, cogent, and well-written. (Translation: Wish Id written it.) By using the work of Henry J. Aaron, a highly respected health economist, Sloan shows that both Medicare and the ...
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• Is Truth the Next Casualty in the White House’s Push For the Senate Bill?

  
  The Sentinel Effect — Authority: 111
  Many of us admire the wealth of talent on display in the White House, so it’s disappointing when there’s a breakdown in the accuracy or completeness of information being put forward by members of this Administration. Take Jason Furman, the Deputy Director of the Administration’s National Economic Council. We ...
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• Is Truth the Next Casualty in the White Houses Push For the Senate Bill?

  
  Night Light — Authority: 467
  Many of us admire the wealth of talent on display in the WhiteHouse, so its disappointing when theres a breakdown in the accuracyor completeness of information being put forward by members of thisAdministration. Take Jason Furman, the Deputy Director of the AdministrationsNational Economic Council. We understand that ...
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• Government can earn Rs 50,000 crore by faster disposal of tax related cases pending in various tribunals and courts

  
  LEGAL & FINANCIAL UPDATES FROM TAX GURU — Authority: 159
  India Inc has informed the ministry of finance that the government can unlock a whopping Rs 50,000 crore in revenue if it fast-tracks cases related to direct and indirect taxes that are pending in various tribunals and courts. The Confederation of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website www.taxguru.in ...
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• AFL-CIO on LieberCare: “Inadequate,” Funded “Wrong Way”

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 729
  Richard Trumka The AFL-CIO issued a statement on LieberCare, and the labor federation isn’t happy. President Richard Trumka says the current bill is “inadequate,” is funded “the wrong way,” and stops short of outright opposing the whole package for now. But because it bends toward the insurance ...
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