Each person bowed before the ruler, his gold went onto one hip, his silver went onto another hip, and in this way he paid his incometax for the year.
每个人在统治者面前鞠躬,把他的金子放在一边,银子放在另一边,这样他就交了当年的个人所得税。
2
To avoidtaxing the same income twice, most other countries give shareholders at leastsome credit for the tax that the company has already paid.
为了避免相同的一笔收入重复缴税,大部分其他国家至少信任股东应支付的所得税已经由公司缴纳过了。
3
Looking just at incometax, the share paid by the top 1% of earners in America rose from 28% in 1988 to 40% in 2006, in Britain it rose from 21% in 1999 to 28% this year.