This restriction may lead to inequitable treatment compared with a business carrying out similar activities, but who was already VAT registered when the tax was incurred.

Even Republican state leaders who strongly support the repeal are perturbed by what they see as inequitable treatment.

Laws, apparently angered by what he saw as inequitable treatment, launched stinging attacks on Jones and the ABA's head, David Flint.

Their discomfort with the police is exacerbated by a language barrier that the police themselves say contributes to inequitable and sometimes dangerous treatment.

A.T.&T. and Philips immediately issued a statement complaining that they had received "inequitable treatment."

It was the moment when a choice had to be made about how to approach the exploitation and inequitable treatment meted out to Black subjects in Britain.

"There appears to be inequitable treatment," he said.

"This inequitable treatment of private versus public employers is difficult to justify," the analysis by Mr. Bress's office said.

The Social Fund needs to be used far more intensively as an instrument for remedying the inequitable treatment of women in the labour market.

Certainly, no good ethical case has been made to justify differential or inequitable treatment on such arbitrary grounds.