The prime sources of revenue were customs duties, maritime collections, income tax and corporate tax (see table 2).

Ain't gonna be nothing but tax-free, under-the-table, pure cash money.

Table 9 Taxes paid by rice importers during 2004 (United States dollars)

Globalization and size of government. The second type of regression equation is that for central government expenditures (see technical appendix, table A5) and tax revenue (table A6), each expressed as a share of GDP.

Similar proposals, such as the Tobin tax, a tax on pollution and a low-elasticity commodities tax, are on the table.

France and other European countries reported substantially greater trade than FDA, whereas China reported less (see table 4). Officials estimate that taxes were approximately a quarter of export value. However, interviews with senior officials confirm that FDA has received only one third of the assessed taxes (see table 5).

As shown in the following table, the tax changes between 1995 and 2001 for both married and single taxpayers still remain minimal, with increases or decreases at relevant income levels within a range of 1.85 and negative 0.75 per cent of gross salary.