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A Critique Of the Excise Tax, From An Excise Tax Proponent
Ezra Klein: The excise tax, by contrast, does not have progressive rates -- it's just a flat 40 percent. If health benefits were treated as wages, then a middle-class worker with a $27,000 health-care plan would've paid much less in taxes than a Goldman Sachs trader with a $27,000 health-care plan...

New GAO Reports: Airport and Airway Trust Fund Excise Taxes, Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes
Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Fiscal Year 2008 Airport and Airway Trust Fund Excise Taxes, GAO-09-90R, November 03, 2008 Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures:...

Unions Do Their Job On Excise Tax
Some folks are up in arms because union leaders protected their membership in their negotiations on the health bill (David Dayen has some details...

Was The Excise Tax Worth It?
A lot of people who championed the excise tax are very upset that the House Dems will not pass the Senate health bill stand alone...

Can I Get Rid Of An Excise Tax If I File For Bankruptcy?
Excise taxes are discharged in bankruptcy if the underlying transaction, which led to the tax, was more than three years before you file your bankruptcy case...

The Tanning Salon Excise Tax
In case you didn?t get a chance to read the Manager?s Amendment to the Senate bill yourself, all the way to the end, the way that your senators surely will, here?s one item of possible interest: (b) EXCISE TAX ON INDOOR TANNING SERVICES...