Here in Canada, it's a much simpler system:

1. Federal Government: Give us your money.

2. Provincial Government: Give us your money.
Us: But we have none left.
Provincial Governement: We don't care. We want it anyway.

3. Municipal Government: See 2. Provincial Government above


>Hi Terry
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>>Buy petrol, on which you pay duty. the duty goes up and you still have to pay VAT on top of that - same for cigarettes and booze.
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>Ditto, tax the tax see #18 that is a range of taxes on the tax amounts