14:15 Jun 30, 2012
Purely from the grammatical construction, one can conclude that "benefit-tax" is a tax on some kind of benefit, from the rest of the text you could imply what kind of benefit it is. Just one example: there used to be a tax on the width of the font shop window. That would be a "benefit-tax", as having a wider front shop window is a “benefit” (i.e. an advantage) for the shop-keeper, as he his getting better exposure of his trade to potential clients.
This citation is about two taxes, one that would serve a "distributional" purpose ("preraspodele") as any tax is also a form of "redistribution" (by taxing some taxpayers (people or businesses) in a different ways from other, the tax system is in effect transferring money between taxpayers ) – income tax usually works in this fashion, the tax rate usually being progressive.
The other tax, the “property tax” is here meant to be a "benefit-tax" i.e. it’s supposed to make the home-owners ONLY pay for some advantage related to their property. For example, make them pay more if their property is deserved by better roads, or nearer to a railway station, or near a shopping centre etc.
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