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Why must we pay taxes? The answer is that the government needs money for many things, for example, to pay its soldiers, sailors and airmen, to build roads, bridges, offices, schools, or to buy goods from abroad. And only the people of the country can supply the money. One of the most important taxes is income tax which a person pays according to the amount of his income, whether he is a merchant, a doctor, a lawyer, a shopkeeper, or anything else. This is called a " direct " tax, because it is paid in money directly to the government. Another tax is paid on goods such as watches, jewelry, new clothes, tobacco, wine and so on, when they are brought into a country. such a tax is paid as part of the price of these goods if they are later sold in shops. We call it "indirect "tax, because it is paid indirectly through the shopkeeper.
我們?yōu)槭裁匆欢?？是因?yàn)檎枰@些錢(qián)做許多其他的事情，比如給軍人、海軍、空軍的費(fèi)用，修建公路、大橋、辦公室、學(xué)校的費(fèi)用，或者去引進(jìn)一些國(guó)外商品的費(fèi)用。這些錢(qián)，只有自己國(guó)家的公民們才能提供。其中最重要的一項(xiàng)稅收叫做工資稅，這個(gè)稅是根據(jù)每個(gè)人的工資多少來(lái)交付的，無(wú)論你是一個(gè)商人、一個(gè)醫(yī)生、一個(gè)律師、一個(gè)小店的店主，或者其他的什么職業(yè)。這種稅叫“直接稅”，因?yàn)樗且藻X(qián)的形式直接交給了政府。另一種稅是通過(guò)商品來(lái)交付的，例如手表、珠寶、新衣服、煙草、酒等等，當(dāng)他們被帶到一個(gè)國(guó)家，如果他們以商品的形式掛在店鋪里面銷(xiāo)售的話(huà)，這種稅就通過(guò)商品的形式交付了。我們稱(chēng)這種稅叫“間接稅”，因?yàn)樗怯傻曛鏖g接交付的。 ——譯文來(lái)自: 張小莉0609