• 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).

    ECONOMIST: German jobs

  • Germany will delay tax change in favour of deficit control as demanded by the unfied constitution.

    FORBES: Our Globe Is Growing Good, Says IMF

  • Some on the Tory right also want a change of approach, though they favour tax cuts over an easing of the spending squeeze.

    ECONOMIST: The Tories

  • He confirmed that the Lib Dems were willing to abandon their support for a "mansion tax" in favour of higher council taxes on valuable properties.

    BBC: Nick Clegg 'proud' of ?600 tax cut

  • By returning to the tax regimes that favour married couples?

    ECONOMIST: I do, I can, I will

  • Even those in favour of tax competition seem to assume that tax havens take business (and hence taxable profits) away from onshore economies: that the amount of economic activity in the world is fixed and that a dollar booked in Guernsey is a dollar less for France.

    ECONOMIST: The less obvious uses of tax havens

  • In fact, we could take this very argument proposed and turn it around: to being in favour of the tax break.

    FORBES: Misunderstanding Tax Breaks, Dividends and Reinvestment

  • The row with the CBI came after Treasury minister Ed Balls claimed Mr Brown was lobbied by the CBI in favour of the tax changes in 1996.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | UK Politics | Brown defends pensions decision

  • Has the Treasury done enough to increase the tax payable by private equity partners on their carry and to increase the tax payable in general by private-equity partners and their backers who are not domiciled in the UK, so that tax system doesn't favour their kind of financing and investing techniques over others?

    BBC: The financial lessons of Southern Cross

  • But housing is also one of the areas where government handouts (especially tax relief on mortgage payments) favour wealthier Americans.

    ECONOMIST: How should America house its poor?

  • Earlier this month, Cornwall Council's cabinet voted in favour of a council tax rise of nearly 2% in its draft budget proposals.

    BBC: Cornwall councillors approve 'unfair' tax proposal

  • The charities that attract the wealthy, such as universities and opera houses, have more to gain from tax incentives than those the poor favour, such as churches.

    ECONOMIST: Why a new golden age of philanthropy may be dawning

  • Ms Smith said her party had ruled out up-front tuition fees and a pure graduate tax and instead declared themselves in favour of a deferred fees system facilitated through income contingent loans.

    BBC: Higher education debate

  • Dennis Hastert, speaker of the House of Representatives, says that income taxes should be scrapped in favour of a national sales tax.

    ECONOMIST: George Bush's tax agenda: Handing it back | The

  • The campaigner against ethanol subsidies (who had a better record on global warming than most Democrats) came out in favour of a petrol-tax holiday.

    ECONOMIST: The presidential election

  • Mr Cable, who repeated his weekend call for more capital spending and for pensioners' benefits to be taxed, said he might back a Labour motion in favour of a "mansion tax" when it is debated in the Commons on Tuesday.

    BBC: Budget 2013: Liam Fox urges spending freeze and tax cuts

  • The largest loopholes also favour the rich, making the tax system less progressive, and encourage rampant tax avoidance.

    ECONOMIST: America's fiscal deficit

  • Mr da Silva's team favour an industrial policy, with tax breaks, cheaper credit and government investment in research and development and in infrastructure.

    ECONOMIST: Brazil

  • It is a sad indictment of Republican short-sightedness that all discussion of creating the flatter, simpler tax system that the party is supposed to favour has given way to squabbling over a grab-bag of politically-appealing goodies.

    ECONOMIST: The truth about taxes

  • However, this is the original paper in the current round of arguments in favour of such a Tobin or FT Tax.

    FORBES: The Flash Crash Does Not Justify a Tobin Tax

  • Only nine Democrats supported the bill which went through the House on April 18th, and most of those Senators who backed the tax-cutting plan last year do not now favour its extension.

    ECONOMIST: Playing politics with tax | The

  • The property was not designated as his second home - but he had been living in a grace-and-favour flat before selling it and telling tax authorities it was his main residence, the Telegraph reported.

    BBC: 'Duck island' claim MP to retire

  • Ministers who for security or other reasons live in so-called 'grace and favour' homes will continue to pay council tax and tax on the benefit of living in this accommodation but will not receive this new allowance.

    BBC: In full: MP expenses reform plans

  • Others, including the House speaker, Dennis Hastert, are said to favour compromise with Mr Clinton on a more modest tax cut.

    ECONOMIST: So much to do, so little time

  • One piece of evidence in favour of this theory is the growing influence of tax-free retirement plans, which have made it possible for younger workers to channel their savings into mutual funds.

    ECONOMIST: Will investors run for cover?

  • In his statement, Sir David said he was "pleased" with the judgement of the first tier tax tribunal's judgement on Rangers, which ruled in favour of the club's use of Employee Benefit Trusts (EBTs).

    BBC: Sir David Murray

  • Those opposed to the latest round of tax-cut proposals complain that they are unfairly skewed in favour of the rich and are in any case unlikely to be effective in kick-starting a sluggish economy.

    ECONOMIST: Working on the sceptics | The

  • Unlike the second-tier Republican candidates, Messrs Forbes, Keyes and Bauer, who all favour some kind of radical shift towards a flat tax or national sales tax, the front-runners have few ideas for reforming the current tax system.

    ECONOMIST: Republican fiscal policies

  • And all the Alliance's would-be leaders favour an Albertan-style single-rate federal income tax (of 17%).

    ECONOMIST: Alberta��s advantage poses some questions for Canada

  • The plan replaces the current tax exemptions for employer-provided health insurance with a refundable tax credit, while Medicare benefits would ultimately be set aside in favour of a system of vouchers for private insurance.

    ECONOMIST: A Congressman with a brave vision

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