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Estimating and Alleviating the Goods and Services Tax Compliance Cost Burden Upon Small Business
Pope, Jeff - 2001
The burden of small business acting as an 'unpaid tax collector', particularly for the Goods and Services Tax (GST), is currently subject to much political debate in Australia. However, realistic proposals as how best to alleviate this burden are few and far between. This article reviews...
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Sales Tax Enforcement: An Empirical Analysis of Compliance Enforcement Methodologies and Pathologies
Christian, Philip C - 2010
Most research on tax evasion has focused on the income tax. Sales tax evasion has been largely ignored and dismissed as immaterial. This paper explored the differences between income tax and sales tax evasion and demonstrated that sales tax enforcement is deserving of and requires the use of...
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Contracts for dispatchable power
Kahn, E.P.; Stoft, S.; Marnay, C.; Berman, D. - 2008
Competitive bidding for electric power is maturing. Increasing numbers of utilities are soliciting proposals from …
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ELSA: an electric power supply analysis model for the Pacific Northwest. [Effects of developments]
Harrington, T.P.; Jacobsen, J.J. - 2008
(Electric Power Supply Analysis Model), one component of this overall program, is a simulation model of the electric supply … test their effect on the cost and availability of power. ELSA is divided into three major sectors: production, regulatory …
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A prefeasibility study of energy resource options in Hainan, China
Hill, L.J.; Russell, M.; Barron, W.F.; LaRocco, P.; Shen, Z. - 2008
This study identifies a strategy that (1) provides future energy services for Hainan in the least environmentally degrading way, (2) eliminates the need to build significant amounts of new fossil-fueled, electric generating capacity, saving capital to invest in other development projects, (3)...
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Electricity pricing as a demand-side management strategy: Western lessons for developing countries
Hill, L.J. - 2008
expansion to meet current and future electric power demand. …
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The role of analytical models: Issues and frontiers
Blair, P. - 2008
A number of modeling attempts to analyze the implications of increasing competition in the electric power industry … only modest mechanisms to facilitate increased bulk power transactions between utility systems. More fundamental changes in … market structure, such as the existence of independent power producers or wheeling transactions between customers and utility …
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Economics of geothermal electricity generation from hydrothermal resources
Bloomster, C.H.; Knutsen, C.A. - 2007
steam and binary power cycles are closely competitive; the binary cycle appears better when the brine temperature is below … reduction in power costs would be achieved by reducing well drilling costs, stimulating well flow rates, reducing powerplant …
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Community-Level Impacts Projection System (CLIPS). Final report
Monts, J.K.; Bareiss, E.R. - 2007
The Community-Level Impacts Projection System includes a set of techniques for providing detailed advance information required for rational planning. The computerized system generates reports which enable the user: to describe the energy development activity in terms of its employment demands...
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The changing structure of the international commercial nuclear power reactor industry
Forsberg, C.W.; Hill, L.J.; Reich, W.J.; Rowan, W.J. - 2008
The objective of this report is to provide an understanding of the international commercial nuclear power industry … evolving structure of the international nuclear power reactor industry implies different organizations making decisions within … the nuclear power industry, different outside constraints on those decisions, and different priorities than with the …
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