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  1. federalism. unitary state, a system of political organization in which most or all of the governing power resides in a centralized government, in contrast to a federal state. A brief treatment of the unitary state follows. For additional discussion, see Political system: Unitary nation-states; federation; confederation.

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      federalism, mode of political organization that unites...

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      A contrast between federation and confederation—words...

  2. Apr 8, 2010 · Worldwide unitary taxation came under assault in the 1980s and 1990s. In recent years, unitary combined reporting has seen a resurgence, as Vermont (2006), New York (2007), Michigan and Texas (2008), and Massachusetts, West Virginia, and Wisconsin (2009) have jumped on the bandwagon. Although "worldwide unitary combined reporting" was upheld ...

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    • Unitary States vs. Federations
    • Unitary States vs. Authoritarian States
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    Of the 193 member countries of the United Nations, 165 are unitary states. The United Kingdom and France are two well-recognized examples.

    The opposite of a unitary state is a federation. A federation is a constitutionally organized union or alliance of partially self-governing states or other regions under a central federal government. Unlike the largely powerless local governments in a unitary state, the states of a federation enjoy some degree of independence in their internal affa...

    Unitary states should not be confused with authoritarian states. In an authoritarian state, all governing and political power is vested in a single individual leader or small, elite group of individuals. The leader or leaders of an authoritarian state are not chosen by the people, nor are they constitutionally responsible to the people. Authoritari...

    The unitary state is the most common form of government in the world. This system of government has its benefits, but as with all schemes of dividing power between government and the people, it also has drawbacks.

  3. Jul 2, 2019 · Throwback and throwout rules are designed to allow states from which sales originate to tax the income from those sales in cases when the destination state, which would normally do so, lacks jurisdiction to levy tax on a given company (most commonly due to threshold requirements imposed by federal law), producing this “nowhere income.”.

  4. McColgan, 8 where the California Supreme Court held that a unitary business exists “[i]f the operation of the portion of the business done within the state is dependent upon or contributes to the operation of the business done without the state”; and Mobil Oil Corp. v. Commissioner of Taxes of Vermont, 9 where the U.S. Supreme Court ...

  5. Nov 21, 2019 · Unitary tax recognises that in reality, profits are maximised at the unit of the group as a whole. ‘Formulary apportionment’ is the name for the process that allocates those global profits as tax base between the different countries where the multinational has real economic activity (employment and final customer sales, say).

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  7. The history of taxation in the United States begins with the colonial protest against British taxation policy in the 1760s, leading to the American Revolution. The independent nation collected taxes on imports ("tariffs"), whiskey, and (for a while) on glass windows. States and localities collected poll taxes on voters and property taxes on ...

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