That's the combined effect of the new law's higher capital-gains rate and limitation on deductions, as well as a new tax this year to help pay for the new health-care law.
By and large, businesses welcomed this tidying up, even though they will pay more tax during a four-year transition to a new system of payment, under which big firms will pay tax quarterly on a current-year basis, rather than in arrears as now.
Obama, ladies and gentlemen, dear friends, it gives me great pleasure to come to Washington and pay a state visit to the United States at the beginning of the new year, at the invitation of President Obama.
Most voters also placed a high priority on his proposals to lengthen the school day or year, to pay better teachers more money and to require a new competency exam for teachers.
Another 6, 500 civil servants at the Department for Constitutional Affairs will vote over the next few weeks on a pay offer said by the union to be worth up to 2.8%, while 4, 500 workers in the Prison Service are expected to vote in the New Year on their pay offer, which union leaders say is worth 1%.
The government has been consulting on the possibility of simplified pay structures and new powers for shareholders - intended to restrain executive pay - that could be introduced next year.
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As investors start the New Year, they often pay more attention to what they are doing with their portfolios.
Thus a 24-year-old new to a pension plan should save 12% of their earnings - minus any contribution their employer makes - and a 40-year-old new to retirement savings should pay 20%.
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Not all will get it: the new pay-out is expected to go only to farmers with a three-year record of earnings.
Benn Steil, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, notes companies that list in New York, in aggregate, pay millions of dollars a year to meet U.S. legal and accounting rules and exchange fees.
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This benefit has been cut and capped, and from next year it will be rolled into a new universal credit, leaving tenants to pay their own rent along with grocery bills, clothing for children and so forth.
While a typical 60-year-old today might pay five to seven times more for health insurance than a 20-year-old, the new law limits that ratio to three times what a typical young person might pay, says Robert Zirkelbach, a spokesman for America's Health Insurance Plans, the industry's trade group.
Government bonds pay a fixed income each year, so the higher the price, the lower the yield to new buyers.
To determine the average amount consumers might pay to keep their new cars in operating condition, we used 2008 repair estimates calculated over a five-year period by Vincentric, an auto-industry data-analysis company.
Although Chancellor George Osborne increased the bank levy in last week's Autumn Statement, the unions say the public sector is bearing the brunt of measures to rebalance the public finances with workers facing a new 1% cap on pay rises after the current two-year pay freeze ends in the Spring.
If it can, Asian importers will pay as much as 90% more than a year ago when the new pricing system is first applied to the April through June quarter.
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is prepared to back a deal on stalled sick-pay legislation that would require New York City businesses with 20 or more employees to provide five paid sick days beginning next year, according to the lead sponsor of the bill.
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