Maximization of profits by producing where marginal revenue equals marginal costs.
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The value of the education, marketing, and training received through athletic scholarships exceeds the individual marginal revenue product for at least 90% of all student-athletes in Division I sports.
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This is usually said to be, a rule of thumb, about 20% of the sum collected or, in another formulation, perhaps 35% of the marginal revenue of the system.
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Due to a weak macroeconomic environment, a slowing PC market and restructuring efforts, the company expects a marginal decline in revenue across all divisions except the software division.
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The company also provided a detailed turnaround strategy and 2013 outlook where the company expects a marginal decline in revenue across all segments in 2013 except the software division.
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The fiscal cliff has DC policymakers scouring the four corners of the earth looking for ways to boost revenue without raising marginal tax rates.
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It anticipates a marginal increase in Q2 2013 revenue on account of seasonal factors and expects the macro environment to improve thereon as the industry accepts innovative form factors in ultrabooks, convertibles and detachables.
Yet each firm has sunk so much capital in plants that it is strongly tempted to use the capacity to build extra cars that fetch enough revenue to cover marginal costs in the short run, but not total costs in the long run.
Economists who specialize in these matters, including Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, and Peter Diamond, typically argue that a marginal rate around 70 percent maximizes revenue.
Given the consistency of tax receipts as a percentage of GDP, growth obviously supersedes marginal rates as the driver of tax revenue.
Broadening the personal income-tax base by closing loopholes will generate substantial additional revenue while minimizing increases in marginal rates that could stifle risk-taking and robust growth.
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Any realistic, practical plan to limit tax expenditure cuts to a high-income group would require a phase-in of the cuts or other accommodations, which would add to marginal tax rates, reduce the potential revenue gain, and make the resulting tax change more regressive.
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For example, some researchers find that the economy-wide cost of a carbon tax would be considerably lower if the revenue were used to reduce marginal tax rates on labor, capital, or personal income than if it were used to offset costs imposed on low-income households.
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So if raising marginal tax rates causes a decrease in tax revenue thanks to a combination of legal tax avoidance, illegal tax evasion, and voluntary emigration, so be it.
Certainly, raising an equivalent amount of tax revenue through means other than increases in marginal tax rates would likely have a smaller negative incentive effect.
Under pure competition, it is rational for carriers to generate incremental revenue by setting fares only slightly above their marginal cost.
The Tax Reform Act of 1986 basically cleaned out bloated tax benefits, like the Investment Tax Credit, as a way to generate enough revenue to allow for a significant lowering of marginal tax rates.
Bush increased actual tax revenue over that collected by President Bill Clinton by cutting marginal tax rates.
It is important not only to lower marginal tax rates, but to minimize government social engineering via the Internal Revenue Service.
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The red line represents the top marginal tax bracket while the blue line shows the total amount of Federal government revenue each year.
In any case, progress in averting the fiscal cliff will depend on one side acknowledging the need for more tax revenue and the other side acknowledging the negative incentive effects of higher marginal tax rates.
"This, and the fact that UK oil revenue is forecast to decline in any case, would make the budgetary impact marginal, " says the note.
The company should already be charging the most it can for that marginal phone call and a change in sunk costs might affect accounting profit but not that revenue maximising price charged.
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If one looks back to the early seventies when the marginal tax rate in India reached 98 percent, no one believes that the policy led to an increase in tax revenue.
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