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excise

1. a tax on goods, such as spirits, produced for the home market

2. a tax paid for a licence to carry out various trades, sports, etc.

3. Brit that section of the government service responsible for the collection of excise, now the Board of Customs and Excise

Excise

one of the forms of indirect taxation, primarily on objects of mass consumption (such as salt, sugar, and matches), and also on municipal, transportation, and other widely used services. Excise tax is included in the price of goods or as a tariff on services; thus, it is, in effect, shifted to the consumers, mainly workers. In prerevolutionary Russia, excise taxes, along with the spirits monopoly, produced 47.5 percent of the total income of the budget in 1904. Excise taxes are an important source of revenue for the state budgets of contemporary capitalist countries. In England and the USA, for example, from 1929 to 1958 excise taxes yielded between 14 and 30 percent of all tax receipts. In the USA, the total excise collections grew from $.5 to $12.4 billion per year over the period 1928–59. The excise tax on many goods is as high as half or even two-thirds of their price.

In the USSR the excise system was abolished by the tax reform of 1930; in other socialist countries it was abolished by the tax reforms of 1948–49.

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Byline: Clive McFarlane COLUMN: CLIVE MCFARLANE If you are the first family of a city reeling heavily from brutal economic blows, of a city whose residents are being beaten down by high taxes and fees, would you, even if it's purely symbolic, throw your excise tax dollars into the dwindling city treasury, or would you throw it into the treasury of a town in which you have a part-time residence.

Mr. Lukes' taxing explanation by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)

TALLINN -- The Confederation of Employers urged the Estonian government to carry out more extensive analyses on the impact an increase in the excise tax rates would have on the state budget and on the adoption of the euro, reports news agency LETA.

Tax burden excessive by The Baltic Times (Riga, Latvia)

Examining data after the state's 1983 and 2002 alcohol tax increases, researchers found that "increases in alcohol excise tax rates were associated with immediate and sustained reductions in alcohol-related disease mortality in Alaska.

Alcohol taxes reduce related deaths by The Nation's Health

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