burden
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New assessments have shifted the burden from downtown commercial properties to individual homeowners, and other taxing entities have asked for more money.
"Lots of them do that, they don't burden the producers," he said.
From Barron's
Another familiar objection is framed as an accounting exercise: The effective tariff burden can be made lower than the headline rate if firms substitute products, re-source suppliers or alter configurations.
Organizing info in this vault can also be a way to relieve the digital-asset burden on family members after someone dies.
How quickly that would ease households’ financial burdens isn’t clear, however.
From Barron's
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