Sales principles to help grow lab revenues--Part II.

Sales principles to help grow lab revenues-Part I.

Disparities Among Cities’ Sales Tax Revenues

Under what is known as the situs rule, a 1 percent locally levied sales tax is collected by the state but returned to the jurisdiction where the sale occurred. Thus, the situs rule gives cities an incentive to promote the location of retail businesses within their boundaries—an incentive that does not exist for residential or industrial development. Although sales taxes are a modest share of to...

Can a Sales Tax on Medical Services Help Fund State Coverage Expansions?

Executive Summary For states considering health coverage expansions, a health care sales tax (provider tax) is one revenue source that deserves consideration, for many reasons. First, state revenues often decline significantly when states experience an economic downturn, at the very time when demands for state-funded health programs increase. But revenues from provider taxes do not fall when th...

The Effects of Iran's Reallocating its Oil and Gas Sales Revenues to Developing its Upstream Affairs

Oil and Gas sector, with notable participation in national product and funding public expenditures, plays a seminal role in Iran's economy. Although there is a relative lag in providing proportionate supply, Iran stands at the highest rank of owning world's related proven reserves. Using a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model, this study was aimed to investigate the effects of the increas...

California Cities and the Local Sales Tax

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