What is the difference between a levy and a tax?
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In general, a tax does not expire and is for obtaining general funds where a levy expires after a period of time and is to fund a specific project or thing. For example, we pay real estate taxes in my county that fund the county goverment and have some levies to pay for school improvements
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No, it's not taxed differently, but what you need to ask your new employer is how they will calculate withholding.\n\nIf you're getting your commissions on an irregular schedule (i.e. not the same as your salary) then your employer's payroll dept. may try to treat them as one-time payments each time - which usually ends up with a different withholding than you probably want.
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The fact that you tried to make payment arrangements but were unable to keep will not make this any easier.  I can't speak specfically for AZ.  Unless you can prove that you do not owe the tax I doubt that the levy will be removed.  You need to go back and set up new payment arrangements that you can stick to.  I understand that other things come up that sometimes make it difficult.  BTY, if your employer is responsible for the mistake is it possible for him/her to help you out with this?  Explain to the state of AZ why you could not keep the prior arrangements - you need to be completely honest on this point.
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Excise tax is a luxury tax. Anything that would be considered to be a luxury item get excise taxed.\nExcise taxes usually have one of two purposes: to raise revenue or to discourage particular behaviour. Taxes such as those on sales of fuel, alcohol and tobacco are often justified on both grounds. Usually you don't even know your paying the tax because it is added into the price of the item.
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It is a state tax.  It differs from state to state.  There are no slabs but fixed amount depending on your professional income.
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As Americans, we all know about taxation without representation.  But what a lot of times we aren't taught is that it was common in the world at the time to levy taxes on colonies and not afford them representation in the government.  The taxes were used for other things, like defense of the colony.
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your question doesn't make sense.\n\nMaking millions is different than back taxes, which usually indicates owing money.
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The first answer may only refer to income tax(?) If you take into account indirect taxes such as purchase tax/VAT, duties such as on fuel etc. and other charges such as local authority rates the situation may be different. I think a better picture would be obtained by looking at the government's total tax revenue as a percentage of GNP.\nIn the end you pay your money and hope the government makes good use of it.
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First account of taxation is in the Bible.  I would venture a guess that taxes have lasted as long as rudimentary government (probably since the invention of agriculture or around there).\n\nUnless you have an agrarian-based society (or industrial or later) taxation makes no sense (hunter-gatherers wouldn't have any need for taxes).
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They getcha where they can. Both new and used or second hand items are taxable.\n\nPlaces I know where you might not pay tax is garage sales and e-Bay.
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taxes, taxes, taxes. A vote for the Dem's is a vote for taxes.
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I cannot tell you specifically what is different, but each state has different subtractions and additions to income. The tax laws for each state is different. And if you lived in NYC you pay city tax. In some counties their are different tax rates between school districts. In some states military are not taxed but in others they are. Below are the state links to look it up yourself.
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If you are asking about the tax rate it wil be determined by how the specific entity is structred. S-Corps and C-Corps are taxed at the lower personal rate while LLC's are taxed at the higher corporate rate.
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Local taxes tend to be property and sales taxes, along with licensing and filing fees for various things. State taxes are of the income and sales tax varieties, along with licensing, use taxes (such as for cars and boats, as well as gas and cigarettes), registrations, and filing fees. Federal taxes are primarily of the income tax variety, but also use taxes (for gas and cigarettes), excises for imports, and capital gains tax.
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A sales tax is levied on the consumer; usually the purchaser of the item for last time.  Sales taxes are paid by both individuals and businesses.  \n\nVATs are taxed at each level of commerce.  Purchasers, other than the final individual consumer, are generally able to claim a credit back for what they paid in calculating what they owe on their sales.  There is no such credit mechanism with a sales tax.\nVATs can be levied so that the burden falls solely on individuals and not businesses (Canada's GST for example)
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They are sort of the same, except for when it comes to taxes. Corporations pay taxes at the corporate level and the shareholders of the corporation are also taxed on their earnings per share. In a LLC, the corporation itself is not taxed but the shareholders in the LLC are taxed on their earnings. Also, most of the time LLC is a smaller group of shareholders than a corporation. I think that is it. Oh and also, just as a bonus...the words to the AC/DC song are Dirty Deeds Done Cheap...not Dirty deeds done with sheep.
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Bank charges are kept by the bank as their income.\n\nGovernment taxes and duties are those they pass on to the state/territory govt. These are usually the 'debit tax', which most (if not all) states and territories are getting rid of because they should be replaced by the GST funds they receive.