An enacting formula is a short phrase that introduces the main provisions of a law enacted by some legislatures. Chamber of the Estates-General, the Dutch legislature. ...
Standard: "BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's [King's] most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-
Under the Parliament Acts: "BE IT ENACTED by The Queen's [King's] most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Commons in this present Parliament assembled, in accordance with the provisions of the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-"
Congress of the United States: "Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,"
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The simplest enactingformulae merely cite the legislature by which the law has been adopted, for example the formula used in Australia since 1990 is "The Parliament of Australia enacts".
Parliament of the Bahamas: "Enacted by the Parliament of The Bahamas."
Parliament of Tuvalu: "ENACTED by the Parliament of Tuvalu-"
By creating a situation in which apportionment formulas are not uniform among the states, multistate corporations can minimize their aggregate tax liability for all the states in which they do business by ensuring that the tax cuts they receive in some states are not offset by tax increases in other states.
Massachusetts enacted the sales-only formula in response to a threat by the Raytheon Company a major defense contractor and the states largest industrial employer to close plants in the state unless it were granted substantial tax relief.
The change from a property-payroll-sales formula to a sales-only formula substantially reduces the corporate tax burden of businesses that arguably are benefiting the most from public services in a state and unfairly shifts the tax burden to out-of-state businesses that benefit from state services to a lesser extent.
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