This 2014 Investorâs guide to tax reporting was prepared to help you understand the data on your Consolidated Form 1099 and related statements for reporting income from REMIC regular interests and other CDO investments on your federal income tax return.
Tariffâs increase the cost of imports, leading to a decline in consumer surplus. For example, UK consumers have lost out from EU wide tariffs on agricultural products. Many agricultural goods are more expensive because of the high tariffs placed to protect EU farmers. It is hard to think of any benefits from tariffâs for consumers. Maybe in the long run consumers benefit from the protection of domestic industries if these industries use the tariffs to improve. Domestic Producers, who produce the good, will benefit from the introduction of tarrifs.
In my article The Softwood Lumber Dispute we saw an example of a tariff placed on a foreign good. A tariff is simply a tax or duty placed on an imported good by a domestic government. Tariffs are usually levied as a percentage of the declared value of the good, similar to a sales tax. Unlike a sales tax, tariff rates are often different for every good and tariffs do not apply to domestically produced goods. The upcoming book Advanced International Trade: Theory and Evidence by Robert Feenstra gives three situations in which governments often impose tariffs: