But for middle-income parents already worried that private school is a financial stretch, losing even the deposit can be a serious blow.
Recent research shows that the mortgage interest deduction increases homeownership for higher-income households in some areas but not for other households.
C-corporations are clearly not for every high-income trader, but some many want to consider using one.
But demand for health care is income-elastic: as people get richer they spend proportionately more on it.
This could lower health insurance premiums overall but make it more difficult for lower-income individuals and those with pre-existing conditions to afford health insurance.
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But for those in the lower-income brackets, walking and using a well-established (albeit overloaded) mini-bus taxi system are the primary ways of getting around.
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On average, such a levy would raise the share of taxes paid for all but the highest-income households, who would pay far less than they do today.
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But it's tough for low-income families to qualify for these loans in the first place (they often require a co-signer), and the interest rate offered will depend in part on the average default rate of students at the school a child attends.
The IRS explicitly allows entertainers to deduct unusual outfits used for income-generating performances but frowns on deductions aimed solely at maintaining an image.
Columbia University is fourth on the Campus Grotto list of expensive colleges for the 2012-13 academic year, but most Ivy League schools often provide opportunities for families earning income under a certain threshold to attend for free through grants, and the benefit eliminates the need for student loans.
The trouble, she says, is that the federal government runs lots of other programmes for low-income people, such as schemes giving money for job-training, but each of these is set up to serve a specific set of clients under rigid rules.
That is because MLPs distribute not only cash income but also paper write-offs for their asset depreciation.
The city has had charter schools for years, but previously only low-income children or those in low-performing schools could enroll.
Consider establishing a one-person 401(k) for 2004--it's too late to open one for 2003, but depending on your age and income, a 401(k) may allow you to sock away more pretax dollars in 2004.
The plan is to make way for new mixed-income buildings, but the displaced residents are skeptical.
But either way, both the tax cuts for high-income households and the increase in the deficit would be enormous.
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This development generates economic benefits for many low-income families, but the growing commercialisation may at the same time constitute a threat to the many traditional expressions.
Both sides could finesse their tax squabble by keeping rates pretty much where they are, but somehow limiting the benefits of tax preferences for high-income households.
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The Senate Republican plan, which would extend the Bush-era income tax cuts for everyone, but would allow the 2009 credits and the temporary payroll tax cut to expire.
They are laughably attempting to make it for the next 30-years on nothing but miniscule bond income.
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But, she said uninsured, low-income patients must wait for a Medicaid disability ruling to come through, which takes around 90 days.
Mr Lawson cut punitive income-tax rates but is now best remembered for the boom that turned into slump in the early 1990s.
Bigger tax incentives for investment and a rebate for low-income earners seem likeliest, but there is no guarantee that either would boost spending anytime soon.
But he also said he supports tax cuts for middle- and lower-income workers.
But public housing residents say mixed-income developments provide too little housing for them and do not address their immediate housing needs post-Katrina.
The savings plan version has lots of names- stakeholder, or money-purchase, for instance, but what you get as a pension income depends on how well your plan does.
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The latter may have the marketing muscle of Fox juggernaut American Idol behind her, but the former wins when it comes to income--and, for that matter, award show acclaim (her latest win: album of the year at the 2010 Grammys).
Both sides agree on extending the lower rates for middle-income Americans, Democrats argue, but they say Republicans are preventing that from happening out of allegiance to a dogmatic opposition to any kind of tax increase on even the wealthiest Americans.
But ABA Retirement apparently paid federal income taxes for years on what was--and remains--a modest operation.
This theory explains some cross-country differences, but it would also predict increased support for redistribution as income inequality widens.
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