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A payment in lieu of taxes (usually abbreviated as PILOT, or sometimes as PILT [1]) is a payment made to compensate a government for some or all of the property tax revenue lost due to tax exempt ownership or use of real property .
Structure of the organised banking sector in India. Scheduled Banks in India refer to those banks which have been included in the Second Schedule of Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934. [1] Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in turn includes only those banks in this Schedule which satisfy all the criteria laid down vide section 42 (6) (a) of the said Act.
Bala, Sumerian for "exchange", [1] is the method by which the Ur III dynasty of Mesopotamia collected goods such as livestock, grain, labor and craft products from its provinces. Individuals of all rank were expected to contribute to this system. [2] These taxes were used to fund building projects within the kingdom such as the building of ...
Fixed deposit. A fixed deposit ( FD) is a tenured deposit account provided by banks or non-bank financial institutions which provides investors a higher rate of interest than a regular savings account, until the given maturity date. It may or may not require the creation of a separate account. The term fixed deposit is most commonly used in ...
Cappamore, Limerick, Ireland. [2] [1] Seamus Coffey is an Irish economist and media contributor with a focus on the performance of the Irish economy and Irish macroeconomic and fiscal policy. [4] He is a lecturer at University College Cork. He was chair of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (IFAC) from 2016 to 2020.
A poll tax, also called a per capita tax, or capitation tax, is a tax that levies a set amount per individual. It is an example of the concept of fixed tax. One of the earliest taxes mentioned in the Bible of a half-shekel per annum from each adult Jew (Ex. 30:11–16) was a form of the poll tax. Poll taxes are administratively cheap because ...
Total dissolved solids ( TDS) is a measure of the dissolved combined content of all inorganic and organic substances present in a liquid in molecular, ionized, or micro-granular ( colloidal sol) suspended form. TDS are often measured in parts per million (ppm). TDS in water can be measured using a digital meter.
In Keynesian economics, the transfer payments multiplier (or transfer payment multiplier) is the multiplier by which aggregate demand will increase when there is an increase in transfer payments (e.g., welfare spending, unemployment payments). [1] Transfer payments are not in the same theoretical category as government spending on goods and ...