There is justified concern too that another payroll-tax boost could further delay the economic recovery that would help Social Security more than anything.
And he said the Budget had taken "difficult decisions in an honest and fair way and with the clear stamp of Liberal Democrat values running through it, " citing examples including the restoration of the pensions and earnings link and the tax boost for the low paid.
What economist Art Laffer said in the 1970s--which was proved true in the 1980s and 1990s--is that the best way to boost tax receipts is to first boost growth.
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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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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If you really wanted to use the capital gains tax to boost revenues, announce that the rate is going up to 20% in January 2012.
This has spurred talk of tax reform to boost economic growth and employment.
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Meanwhile, inflation in the private sector will boost tax takes by a third.
Sometimes known as supply-side economics, this is the simple notion that lower tax rates will boost work, saving, investment, and entrepreneurship.
Higher property prices boost tax revenues directly, through levies on capital gains or on transactions (such as stamp duty in Britain).
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So-called supply side reform, covering the labour market and tax cuts to boost enterprise was another key feature of Thatcherite economic policy.
While the tax hikes might boost sales in the short term, small business owners fear that they will lose sales in the long run.
Bush will use his speech in Independence to say his budget plans protect Medicare and Social Security and that his tax cut will boost economic growth.
Honeywell, a technology and manufacturing company, had intended to leave the state, but decided over the summer to stay after the governor offered to boost tax credits.
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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.
The course, called consumer finance, will look at topics ranging from using tax policy to boost the savings rate to how banks can deliver better products for low-income individuals.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin called on Wednesday for sweeping tax reforms to boost investment-led growth, while pledging to keep the rouble stable without imposing any capital controls.
Tax plans that boost federal receipts ensure large budget deficits as far as the eye can see, not to mention a federal government whose size will continue to astound.
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 push for relaxed growth limits comes as Washington is experiencing a revitalization of its downtown similar to what is happening in parts of Chicago and Boston, where rising demand for apartments and retail space has helped boost tax revenue.
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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And any initiative to boost the tax burden would lead to the same result.
Consumer spending fell by 0.6% in September as the boost from tax cuts faded.
Supply siders talk up tax cuts that ultimately boost revenues as though this is somehow a good thing.
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The tax got a brief boost in 1992-93 when hedge funds seemed to threaten the dream of European monetary union.
The only real boost for tax-cutters came in Massachusetts, where a proposal to cut state income taxes passed by a stonking 82%.
Deferring those tax payments has helped boost the companies' free cash flow.
In 2008, the Bush Administration proposed, pushed, and signed the Economic Stimulus Act, a deficit-financed tax cut designed to boost the flagging economy.
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