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Canadian Chinese Immigrants, The Head Tax

required that all Chinese immigrants had to pay a "head tax," that is a tax that was imposed simply for entering the country. The ...

THE THROW-AWAY WORKER: USE (AND ABUSE) OF CHINESE IMMIGRANTS IN DEVELOPING CANADA'S RAILROADS - AN OUTLINE

the immigrants were considered expendable when it came to building the railroads. History of Canadas Railroads Much of th...

Ondaatje and Lee, Immigrant Experience

in the only way that is culturally significant, as he would link her present to that "golden chain of male to male" (Lee 31). As...

Internet Tax Resources

Code Collection Cornell University (2004). Retrieved on October 11, 2004 from http://assembler.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode2...

Canadian Women Immigrants and Health Care

process is made more difficult by cultural and linguistic barriers (Murty, 2002). These women frequently bear the brunt of fulfill...

Immigrant Experiences and Angel Island

Before actually describing the art and poetry that came out of detainees from Angel Island, a look at the locations history would ...

Historical Overview of Racism in California/1850 to World War II

its sweatshops while the lush farmlands of California had vast farming and cattle empires that depended on equally vast numbers of...

U.S. and Chinese Immigration Patterns

In 12 pages this paper discusses Chinese immigration patterns in America as described in Ethnicity and Entrepreneurship Immigrant...

Experiences of Chinese and Filipino Immigrants in the US

were sold for five dollars each to work in the fish canneries in Alaska, by a Visayan from the island of Leyre to an Ilocano from ...

The Fair Tax

used by the wealthy to shield themselves from paying a fair share of the national tax burden. The fair tax would,...

Business Tax Planning

taxes, such as shifting income, which would require the company to have more than one entity and by shifting deductions (King, 200...

Tax Reduction and Economic Systems

gains tax may be reduced with tools such as a 401k and IRAs, these are tax deferred tools, where tax is only payable when the fund...

Taxes and the Colonies

The British Parliament levied taxes on the Colonists but the colonists did not believe they were represented in the Parliament, th...

Tax Reform: Progressive, Flat or Sales Tax

system would benefit families, as the only exemption included in the system would be one based on the size of the family. For exam...

Recommendations to a City with a Budget Deficit

This assertion may be supported by the proportion of households that are except from tax due to low income levels, this has shown ...

American Immigration Paradoxes

will explore the ramifications of these paradoxes, focusing primarily on the experience of Puerto Rican immigrants. Silvia Pedra...

Will Simplification and Certainly in a Taxation System Lead to Equity; Consideration of Hong Kong

and as such it is likely to be viewed as one of the most equitable, however, it is also a complex system, and as such if this rela...

Australian Income Tax Case

This 8 page paper is written in two parts. The first part assesses how a firm will be assessed to determine whether or not it is a...

Implementing Taxation Effectively

To implement tax effectively it is important that relevant tax authorities are able to forecast the level of revenue that can be r...

Pennsylvania's Cigarette Taxes

They want this because of traffic congestion in cities in addition to the problem of pollution. Raising taxes on gas promotes car ...

Tax on Goods

new cars. The federal excise taxes include a "gas guzzler" tax that is "imposed on new cars that fail to meet federal fuel economy...

Rhinton Mistry's Tales from Firozsha Baag

himself during this period (Ross, 1999). He began writing soon after his arrival in Canada, and won the "Canadian Fiction Magazin...

3 Questions on International Tax Issues

magnet for US corporations as they do not have to physically move to the island to gain the advantages. Bermuda has much lower tax...

A Case Study on Australia's Capital Gains Tax

purchase of a property that would be a main residence this would be exempt form capital gains tax. In 1987 he gains a liquor licen...

Australian Tax Questions

In twelve pages this paper answers student posed Australian tax questions that include changes to the Capital Gains Tax, Goods and...

Canada and the Adaptation of Immigrant Children

peer groups( Samuel and Verma, 1992). As the extent of this list implies, immigrants and their children make up a population of pe...

Individual Federal Income Tax Return Preparation

In ten pages this paper concentrates on four specific components relating to an income tax return preparation with the first being...

Controversy Surrounding Proposals for a Flat Tax

This nine page paper explores the potential for a flat tax. The history of proposals for such a tax and the variation that exists...

Flat Tax Proposal Benefits

In six pages this paper assesses the value added tax's pros and cons in this flat tax proposal overview. Five sources are cited i...

Chinese Women's Roles in Bone by Fae Myenne Ng and The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares how women's roles in Chinese society and in immigrant families are depicted in the...