Tuesday 8 November 2011

Stealth Tax

An indirect tax that government's try to implement as they think people will not notice them. They can be thought of as being 'secretly' implemented.

When the UK government introduced the Fiscal Policy Framework and the Code of Fiscal Stability (1998), one disadvantage was that it didn't stop the introduction of stealth taxes. For more on the Code of Fiscal Stability, look here

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