Then, high prices followed the government's policy of above-inflation tax rises, inherited from the Tories.
For the typical American wage earner, the inflation tax will more than offset the benefits of slightly lower income taxes.
The 10% above inflation tax rise for cider came into force at the end of last month after being announced by Chancellor Alistair Darling.
The Hall-Sargent calculations show that almost all of this inflation tax was borne by those who held bonds with a maturity of five years or more. (That is because investors in short-term bonds could more quickly demand higher interest rates to compensate for inflation.) The trick is harder to repeat today.
Back then the United States did not have inflation-immune tax structures (the more money you made every year, nominally, the higher a tax rate you were subject to), so inflation just led to higher tax bills and the decline of real income and thus unemployment.
Adjusted for inflation and tax changes, the rise was a miserable 0.3% and sales taxes may fall a little in fiscal 2002.
You can see that in this issue, where we tell of the struggle to preserve capital against the ravages of inflation, tax collectors and in-laws.
The child element of child tax credit and the disability elements of tax credit will be uprated in line with inflation, but other tax credit increases will be restricted.
Rampant inflation--tax brackets weren't indexed in those days--was slamming workers with massive unlegislated tax hikes by pushing them into higher tax brackets.
Hayworth: The basic staple of inflation is not tax relief, it is addiction to higher spending, and higher spending that eventually generates huge deficits.
Moreover, if you adjust the overall rise for inflation and legislated tax changes to get at underlying revenue growth, the picture is even grimmer.
It's true and important to note that many working households will see that gain offset, in reality, by the below inflation rise in tax credits.
We are now willing to buy safe bonds that pay above our expected rate of inflation (after tax) out to 7-10 year maturities rather than the 3-5 year target we have maintained for the past two years.
Thankfully, most of the federal income tax code has been indexed for inflation, thus preventing unlegislated tax increases.
He also indexed the tax brackets for all taxpayers to prevent inflation from pushing workers into higher tax brackets.
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Tax compliance increased and the inflation-adjusted revenues from the personal income tax rose more than 20 percent annually during the three years following the adoption of the flat-rate tax.
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The resulting inflation will bump up tax revenues, while reducing the value of spending, thus leaving enough money to service the debt.
J. tax accountant, the AMT has snared more and more taxpayers, in part because it's not indexed for inflation as the regular tax is.
He also indexed the tax brackets for all taxpayers to inflation, which prevented inflation from pushing middle class taxpayers into higher tax brackets (bracket creep).
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The U.S. in 1981--83 went from a high-inflation, high-tax economic basket case to a much stronger competitor, able once again to attract capital from locals and foreigners.
Inflation is a pernicious tax that has revealed itself over the last decade through record prices of commodities (think gasoline), reduced job opportunities thanks to investors going on strike, and the mother of all financial crises.
For instance, if interest rates are 10%, tax relief is 30% and inflation is 7%, the real after-tax interest rate is 0%.
High marginal tax rates with inflation worsening their effect through bracket creep did their part.
One can only hope that he owns some tax-exempt inflation-indexed bonds, just in case.
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These adjustments prevent inflation-induced increases in tax rates, an effect called bracket creep.
Inflation is the great hidden tax, especially when it hits essentials like food.
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These include increasing working age benefits by 5.2% in April and the child element of Child Tax Credit by inflation.
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Hanging the 1980 inflation rate on a 1964 tax act lacks proximity.
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Finally in the 1980s the Fed abandoned trying to cause inflation, and the income tax was indexed for increases in the price level.
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