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Excise

A tax imposed on the performance of an act, the engaging in an occupation, or the enjoyment of a privilege. A tax on the manufacture, sale, or use of goods or on the carrying on of an occupation or activity, or a tax on the transfer of property. In current usage the term has been extended to include various license fees and practically every internal revenue tax except the Income Tax (e.g., federal alcohol and tobacco excise taxes).

excise

n. a tax upon manufacture, sale, or for a business license or charter, as distinguished from a tax on real property, income or estates. Sometimes it is redundantly called an excise tax. (See: tax)

excise

noun assessment, capitation, charge, custom, demand, duty, exaction, exactment, fee, imposition, levy, liability, obligation, tariff, tax, taxation, toll
Associated concepts: direct tax, excise tax, fee, gift tax, license tax, privilege tax

excise

(Cut away), verb abscind, clip, cut, cut out, deduct, delete, detruncate, diminish, disjoin, dissever, eradicate, expunge, expurgate, extract, pare, pluck out, remove, separate, sever, subduct, subtract, take away, take out, tear out, thin, truncate, weed, withdraw

excise

(Levy a tax), verb appraise, assess, charge, charge duty, claim, collect, compel payment, demand, demand payment, demand toll, enforce payment, exact, force payment, impose a duty on, impost, lay a duty on, lay claim to, levy, levy an excise on, oblige, raise, require a tax, requisition, take, tax
Associated concepts: direct tax, franchise tax, gift tax, indiiect tax, privilege tax, succession tax

excise

originally taxes charged on the retail sale within the UK of commodities such as beer, wines and spirits. Nowadays, however, licences (e.g. permitting the use of a gun or dealing in game) are classified as excise. One of the most commonly prosecuted excise offences is contravention of the legislation which requires motorists to display a vehicle excise licence, known colloquially as a tax disc.

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Studies on regulating the tax treatment of excise tax have been prepared in line with international best practices and have been based on the results of data from the local market.

MoF Announces Amendment of the Cabinet Decision on Excise Goods, Excise Tax Rates and the Formula of Calculating the Excise Price, and Issues a Decision Regarding the Formula of Calculating the Excise Price of Tobacco Products

The FTA asserted that there is no threshold for excise tax, meaning that any business with activities involving excise goods is required to go ahead and register in the new system, calculate its tax amounts, and refer to the FTA website for information and manuals that outline the required procedures for producers and importers of excise goods, and for excise goods stored in designated zones.

FTA launches new electronic system for registration of excise goods

Two years ago, Dutetre signed into law the first package of the tax reform program which raised tobacco excise tax rate from P31.20 per pack in 2018 to P32.50 per pack between January to June 2018, P35 per pack from July 2018 to December 2019, P37.50 per pack in 2020 and 2021 and P40 per pack in 2022 and 2023 and a four percent annual indexation onwards.

Law signed hiking tobacco excise tax

They warned that with the current excise tax rate, an increase of 1.4 million smokers is projected in 2022.

Philippines : Angara: Tobacco Tax Hike Gives Gov't More Elbow Room to Plug Funding Gap for Universal Health Care

Nasr said diplomatic and consular bodies, as well as international organisations are exempted from excise tax, including excise goods carried by travelers coming to Qatar, provided that they are "not of commercial nature and are within the permissible limit and goods sold in duty free shops and goods that are intended for consumption on international air and maritime transport."

List of 'excise tax goods' not final, says GTA official

The Department of Energy expects bulk of the 8,600 service stations nationwide to implement the higher excise taxes between January 15 and February 1.

Gas prices going up by P1.40 a liter, 2nd in 2019

Oil companies were told by the Department of Energy on Wednesday not to immediately collect the second round of excise taxes on petroleum products of P2 per liter on January 1, 2019 since they still have stocks or inventories of 15 to 30 days.

Second oil tax deferred

"When raising excise tax rates, we carefully analyze the situation.

Azerbaijan increases excise rates on alcohol and cigarettes

The FTA also clarified that the retail price subject to tax, known as Excise Price, of each taxable item must be the highest of the following two prices: the local market price specified in the Excise Goods Price List (available on the FTA website) - or the designated retail sale price as calculated by the retailer as per the procedure specified in the Taxable Persons Guide for Excise Tax.

Tax authority clarifies price-setting mechanism for excise tax in UAE

The Excise Tax and VAT treaties constitute the common framework for the introduction of these taxes in the GCC which is expected to occur by 1st of January 2017 and 1st of January 2018, respectively.

PwC: GCC companies should take action now to prepare for VAT and Excise Tax

The PATH Act imposes a two-year moratorium on application of the medical device excise tax. This item discusses some frequently asked questions with respect to the medical device excise tax and the current state of the law.

Medical device excise tax: moratorium considerations and FAQs

Because a health insurer administering the tax cannot deduct the excise tax amount from its own taxable income, the full amount an insurer will expect to get from an employer for paying the tax may be about 60 percent bigger than the tax payment itself, Holloway warns in the analysis.