Excess profits tax
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title:
Excess profits tax
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An excess profits tax, EPT, is a tax on returns or profits which exceed risk-adjusted normal returns. The concept of excess profit is very similar to that of economic rent. Excess profit taxes are usually imposed on monopolist industries. Excess profits taxes have often, but not exclusively, been imposed during wartime or in response to an event which provides some with an extraordinary ability to earn windfall gains. Windfall taxes have often been proposed, and sometimes imposed, in order to di
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Tax on profits above what is normal
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_profits_tax
date created:
2005-03-19T07:27:51Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T05:38:58Z
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