The Tax Department's website, www.mof.gov.cy/tax, features a specialised
self-taxation tool, as well as a guide explaining how to fill out the return.
The picture that emerges is that both urban centers had started industrializing by the early 1900s, possessed dynamic entrepreneurial leadership and enjoyed responsive local governments built on the foundation of
self-taxation. The communal structure of these cities was that the Hindus and Sikhs owned most of the property and businesses, while the Muslims residents were principally landowners who lived in town, were artisans or unskilled workers.
This is
self-taxation, not an imposed tax, and it is clear, open and transparent.
This non-money economy seems to run on goodwill, which one might interpret as a sort of self-taxation; people volunteer and cooperate to work on the harvest or other joint projects.
Self-taxation is implicit in the annual economic-planning exercise, where the amount of work needed and the quota for the following year is decided.
We were at the beginnings of the European movement for
self-taxation, inspired in my case by knowing about Vinoba Bhave and his "Land-Gift Movement." But why, after almost fifty years always on at least the edges of the world of mission, do I have this unhappy feeling that money can carry not only the taint of its origins but also the taint of the intentions of its donors?
The Political Criteria: Self-Taxation, Healthy Finances, and clear Laws Oriented to Proportional Taxation
On the contrary, Rosmini proposes a wider participation of the latter in the establishment of the taxes they have to pay--following the principle of "self-taxation": Give me the contributions that are equally distributed over all properties within the nation and in proportion to what they yield.
His evidence is legal documents about municipalities subject to the lordship of the city of Segovia, one of the eighteen cities of Castile with privileges of
self-taxation and representation in parliament, the Cortes.
Responding to complaints that this would complicate matters for wage-earners and pensioners, she said the
self-taxation form contains only five fields.
Also passed was a government bill mandating
self-taxation by corporations and self-employed persons, as well as legislation specifying the deadline by which the IRD must complete tax returns to wage earners.
Friess's most striking observation was about the value of what he called "
self-taxation," as opposed to taxes levied by the state.
