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In an attempt to impede on music and film piracy, the Dutch government will implement a tax on smartphones, laptops, and mp3 players (among other devices) as of January 1st, 2013. The tax will be based on the storage capacity of devices, allowing anything from empty CD-ROMs to set-top boxes to be taxed. A maximum fixed levy of five Euros will be placed on devices, some only with a fixed levy of one or two Euros. Thus, the producers and consumers of smaller, less expensive devices will feel the effect of these fixed levies more than those of laptop and smartphone producers for example, as the fixed levies will be a larger proportion of the price for cheaper products. The tax revenues will be distributed among the affected industries. 

The Australian government needed, as many other governments do, more revenue. They decide to implement a carbon and mining levy tax. The carbon tax forces firms to pay 23 australian dollars per tonne of carbon dioxide, shifting supply to the left, as carbon dioxide produced forces tax on the firms as well as encouraging them to leave less of a carbon footprint.The mining levy tax, puts a direct ad valorem tax on firms who gathering iron and coal. These taxes have allowed for worker's taxes to be decreased, therefore shifting the tax burden from workers to firms that are enviromentally harming.

MUMBAI Aug 21 (Reuters) - Indian sugar futures fell nearly 2 percent on Tuesday on slow demand and additional supply of non-levy sugar, though a likely rise in demand next month because of religious festivals have limited the downside. Because of a few slow days in the sugar market, India's profit on sugar has decreased which means that sugar prices should drop in the coming days as the demand law states. Although a contributing factor, next month's festival, has limited the downside. With the demand decreased, there was a shift in the demand chart but because of future events which will occur, sugar prices will come back up in the coming days which means that the left shift which occurred these couple of days will pump back to the right because if this contributing factor. Because of this occasion the prices on sugar most likely will increase because of the higher demand of sugar during the Ganesh festival.