11. President-elect Bush told reporters he talked about taxes with congressional leaders. 12. Gramm proposed a 16 percent flat tax with the deductions intact. 13. Narrowly defined, this is simply a tax with a single bracket. 14. He thought he could just raise taxes with little repercussion. 15. Nivola suggests offsetting a gas tax with payroll tax reductions. 16. The party also presented bills to replace the council tax with an income-based alternative, 17. Alan Keyes : Replace income tax with national sales tax. 18. Several Shanghai cigarette factories protested against these taxes with shutdowns. 19. They have also signed a bilateral agreement regulating customs and taxes with Serb-dominated Yugoslavia. 20. He relishes the battle that is inevitable over spending and taxes with the Legislature.