The tax got a brief boost in 1992-93 when hedge funds seemed to threaten the dream of European monetary union.
Obama could have proposed a tax credit that would boost the insurance subsidy for low-wage workers while cutting it for those at the top of the food chain.
It's no surprise, except to politicians, that such a boost in this tax has dampened consumer spending.
More so, a carbon tax could also help boost U.S. economic competitiveness if it were used to lower corporate tax rates, for instance.
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Most recently, I criticized the Paris-based bureaucracy for making the rather remarkable assertion that a value-added tax would boost growth and employment.
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Japan's government is adding modest corporate and investment tax breaks to a big boost in spending and a fresh dose of monetary easing from the Bank of Japan.
And the companies, wholesalers and retailers in many cases gave prices a boost beyond the tax increase, in part to make up for an expected drop in sales caused by the hike, some of them said.
Given the sheer number of British households that under the Labour government became eligible for tax credits, and given the rise in unemployment, this increase in benefits and tax credits represented a massive boost to households' spending power.
The executors argued the painting was merely a "plant" used to boost visitors and should be exempt from a tax levy.
That was quite a boost for a rookie tax blogger whose readership numbered in the scores.
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We invested in this company with a tax credit that allowed you to boost capacity and lower costs and hire hundreds of new workers.
And a study by consulting firm Oliver Wyman figures the tax will boost premium costs by as much as 3.7 percent a decade from now.
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However, if individual tax increases are accompanied by a lower corporate tax structure, there might be an unexpected boost in stock prices.
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Meanwhile, inflation in the private sector will boost tax takes by a third.
In 2008, the Bush Administration proposed, pushed, and signed the Economic Stimulus Act, a deficit-financed tax cut designed to boost the flagging economy.
Just a year ago, for example, Ohio voters rejected a 20% boost in the sales tax by an astonishing margin of 80% to 20%.
As such, Governor Brown wants to pursue the idea of increasing oil production there as a way to provide jobs, boost tax revenues and fuel the auto sector.
Prior attempts to use a payroll tax cut to encourage firms to boost employment suggest that many businesses will take the subsidy for hiring they would have done anyway.
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In his letter, Gaffney details the dual benefit to America and Americans of a tax reduction -- a necessary stimulus to the civilian economy and a concomitant boost for the Nation's defense.
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Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria said the government was now aiming to cut income tax in 2015 as a stimulus measure to boost the economy.
But to boost output and income, a tax cut must be the right type -- one that cuts taxes "at the margin" on the additional income associated with additional output (supply).
Yet another suggests a sharp rise in the flat rate of payroll tax that bosses pay for workers on DM610, thus discouraging hiring them (this from a party otherwise claiming to favour tax cuts to boost jobs).
The federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) also provides a crucial boost to low-income families.
So we had a real boost to the economy: Our sales tax was up, our lodging tax was up, which is great.
But it is proposing a cut in payroll taxes at the bottom, plus a new working tax credit, both of which should boost jobs.
We also passed a tax credit for products like energy-saving windows, and that led to a 55-percent boost in the sales at this firm.
Fiscal reform in the countryside, culminating in the abolition of a centuries-old agricultural tax in 2006, helped boost the central government's standing even as it drained the coffers of many local governments.
Gold makes no false promises to cure unemployment, direct credit to the unworthy, juice a slack economy, boost exports, deliver stealth tax hikes, erode unfunded liabilities, or all the other things that fiat currency advocates promise.
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They claim that it would boost growth and prosperity, giving everyone a tax cut.
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He calls for a massive boost in domestic demand, with income-tax cuts for the lowest paid.
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