Its yearly taxes almost equal the $29,999 my parents paid for our house in 1952.

Reducing the huge and stubborn deficit comes first; deficit reduction plus "no new taxes" equals not-much-new-spending.

A tax on a negative externality is called a Pigovian tax, and should equal the marginal damage costs.

The proposed tax of 8.25 percent would equal the current sales tax in Los Angeles County.

The average tax per hectare equalled 3,08 RM (Reichsmark).

The tax equalled the difference between domestic and international oil prices, and the revenues were used to subsidize imports for eastern refiners.

The tax equals 15 percent of annual pension payouts that exceed about $112,500.

In Canada total tax and non-tax revenue for every level of government equals about 38.4% of GDP, compared to the U.S. rate of 28.2%.

State corporate business activity and related taxes equaled 5.2 percent of company profits in 2000, down from 9.6 percent in 1980, the Multistate Tax Commission said.

In 1995, that tax, which is adjusted annually for inflation, equaled 10 percent of a car's cost in excess of $32,000.