SINCE TIME BEGAN : salus populi suprema est lex - the right of the people is the supreme law : IN TRUTH WE TRUST
"Tax" is defined(wkp) internationally as being : " A tax (from the Latin taxo; "rate") is a financial charge or other levy imposed upon a taxpayer (an individual or legal entity) by a state or the functional equivalent of a state such that failure to pay is punishable by law. Taxes are also imposed by many administrative divisions. Taxes consist of direct or indirect taxes and may be paid in money or as its labour equivalent. According to Black's Law Dictionary, a tax is a "pecuniary burden laid upon individuals or property owners to support the government [...] a payment exacted by legislative authority." It "is not a voluntary payment or donation, but an enforced contribution, exacted pursuant to legislative authority" and is "any contribution imposed by government [...] whether under the name of toll, tribute, tallage, gabel, impost, duty, custom, excise, subsidy, aid, supply, or other name."[1]"
The earliest record of taxation is noted in historical documents as being circa 6000 years ago : " in the form of clay tablets found in the ancient city-state of Lagash in modern day Iraq, just northwest of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers."
POPULATION CLOCK : DEBT CLOCKS : DOOMSDAY : CLIMATE CLOCK : POVERTY CLOCK
CORRUPTION WATCH UK : SIPRI : TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL : OATH : TWITTER ACCOUNTS : SIPRI : PRESS CONTACTS : CSSP BUSINESS : CENTRES : MEDIA CONTACTS : CANADA HOUSE OF COMMONS MEMBERS : CANADA SENATE MEMBERS :UNITED NATIONS MEMBER STATES : UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL : STATS CAN POPULATION CLOCK
UN : International Labor Organization : UN
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SINCE TIME BEGAN : salus populi suprema est lex - the right of the people is the supreme law : IN TRUTH WE TRUST
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