Formulation of Taxation
The state cannot enact taxes except as enumerated in this
document.
The tax levied on a particular act or transaction must not vary within
the nation.
An extraction tax is levied on all physical raw materials - ores and
other minerals, fuels and timber, atmospheric extracts (raw gases such
as nitrogen, oxygen, argon, and helium), aquatic extracts (salt, fish,
seaweed), livestock and agricultural products, water, etc - each taxed
according to mass, at different thresholds (below which no taxation
is levied) and rates according to environmental impact of the product
and the process of extraction. The disposal of waste products -
the return of any resource, processed or not, to the environment - is
taxed according to environmental impact. Where it is not feasible to
account for consumption of a resource, the consuming agent (e.g.,
livestock) is taxed upon transfer of ownership of the agent.
Yet-untaxed goods leaving the country are taxed at the same rate as
though they were extracted and sold domestically. Taxation on
imported goods is described below in
§ On Subsidies, Aid, and International Tariffs.
The rate of taxation for a given product relative to those for other
products can be formulated only on the basis of environmental impact.
The production and disposal, of agricultural goods within a household,
including the combustion of timber, wherein no transfer of ownership
occurs, are exempt from taxation.
A given item or quantity of goods cannot be taxed more than once for
extraction, and if disposed, not more than once for disposal. this
represents a taxation cycle, and re-extraction is taxed at the usual
rate.
For each product or activity or portion thereof which has a localized
environmental impact, the state must specify in a detailed bulletin
the additional tax charge levied on a responsible party that fails to
satisfactorily reverse the impact, and must specify precise time
periods over which the cleanup must be performed, and precise criteria
for determining exactly of what a satisfactory cleanup consists. A
responsible party that completes the cleanup is exempt from the
additional tax.
The only type of environmental impact which does not lend itself to
the above, by dint of non-localizeability, is pollution of the
atmosphere. Primary among atmospheric polluters is the combustion of
fuels.
When the environmental impact of a product or activity can be
delineated into localizeable and non-localizeable components, the
processes of cleanup for the localizeable portion must be treated as
described above - particularly, a tax exemption for satisfactory
cleanup performance must be provided, in an amount proportional to
that portion of the environmental impact which is localizeable and has
been cleaned up.
Through advance agreement, a responsible party can arrange to assume
only a portion of the processes of cleanup, and receive a proportional
and agreed-to reduction in cleanup tax.
Additional cleanup tax money received as specified above must be
maintained in an account separate from all other state money, and must
be spent exclusively on cleanup activities.
Royalties paid for intellectual property protected by law are taxed at
a strictly uniform rate of up to 20%, as set by law.
For the purposes of this section, trademarks are not intellectual
property, and revenue from sales of products marketed under a
protected trademark, but not otherwise protected by
§ Protection for Intellectual Property and Dignity, are not candidates
for taxation.
In a given year, total resource tax revenue must equal total
intellectual property tax revenue within one percentage point, except
that if the maximum legal total resource tax revenue is less than half
the maximum legal total tax revenue, the total IP tax revenue can
exceed the total resource tax revenue provided the actual total
resource tax revenue is equal to the maximum legal total resource tax
revenue.
Any intellectual property protected by law, must be licensable and
available as an individual item in isolation. The entire license fee
charged for this item is taxable. If legally protected IP items are
incorporated into a larger item, then the taxable portion of the
larger item is the total of the license fees for the collection of
legally protected IP items incorporated.
Tax is paid to the state of the nation where the sale takes place.
Extraction tax cannot exceed 50% of the wholesale fair market value of
the item being taxed.
The sum total of general tax revenue (which excludes cleanup tax
money) can never exceed ten percent of the product of an average wage
and the total domestic human population.
State agencies must pay taxes on the same schedule as do private
individuals and incorporated entities. To be general, there are no
tax exemptions other than those enumerated in this section.
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