Stock options as a recruiting tool don't get you far, since they're taxed more punitively abroad.

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That would only expose a country to punitively high borrowing costs, triggering a crisis that this plan is designed to avoid.

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But they also get a huge stick alongside it: punitively high fees.

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And in such an instance, it's important that parents do not react punitively or generalize in terms of their child being more aggressive.

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The implicit interest rate on 10-year loans to Italy (the yield on 10-year bonds) rose again above the 7% level which is regarded as punitively unaffordable.

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The reason that kind of shifting is worth mentioning here is because a similar thing occurs when dividends are taxed punitively while capital gains are not.

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The Waxman-Markey bill that passed the House on Friday by a 219-212 margin will punitively tax energy sources that contribute 90% of current U.S. electricity (or 71% if you want to leave out nuclear).

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In the final report of the UK's 2020 Tax Commission, published earlier this year by the TaxPayers' Alliance and Institute of Directors, we reviewed literature by academics the world over and looked at tax changes introduced in a number of different countries to demonstrate the folly of punitively high tax rates.

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Although the ADA is deferential to national governments when it comes to the details of implementing their antidumping laws, it does articulate certain minimum standards intended to limit the scope for abuse, such as reaching affirmative findings of dumping when no dumping has occurred or manufacturing punitively high antidumping duty rates, for example.

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