Tag Archives: Taxe
Prices, Costs and Excise Duties: What’s What?
Inevitably, in any tax analysis, we would refer to prices and costs, salaries and production, prosperity etc. It is well known, although ultimately unjustified, the opinion that increasing indirect taxation, especially excise duties, will be reflected by prices and, further on, by inflationary escalations. This is the recent situation of the debate on the 7 eurocents that will be added to fuel excise
The Crisis and the State: from European Realities to Institutional Imperatives
Anchored, by definition, in the logic of budget balance, the Victorian fiscal morality became today, in contemporary democracy, worthy to be displayed in the museums of economic history. Nowadays, the Keynesian doctrine – in its original version or in its reloaded post-crisis version – established a true status quo of budgetary deficits and public debts. Overwhelmed by the
