Officials now say that dollar deposits will be converted to pesos, though probably indexed to inflation.
Unless the mortgage balance is indexed to inflation, the value of the lender's investment will erode.
Instituted in 1969 as a way of taxing the rich, the AMT wasn't indexed to inflation.
The AMT is now indexed to inflation, reducing the risk of suddenly higher taxes on those folks.
It also suggests that the Alternative Minimum Tax--which threatens to ensnare millions of middle-income households--be indexed to inflation.
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Entitlement and Social Security payments, which account for a substantial portion of the federal budget, are indexed to CPI.
This is true, and we can debate whether the annual increase should be indexed to GDP growth or something else.
The biggest problem is that some prices and wages are indexed to last year's inflation, a hangover from the past.
Although three-quarters of Brazil's public debt is in local currency, around a third of this is indexed to the dollar.
While minority shareholders could opt for all cash, Williams and his partner had to accept 30% in notes indexed to future profits.
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Also troubling is France, where the minimum wage is indexed to inflation.
First, for most countries the greatest long-term fiscal threat comes from unfunded retiree benefits, which by their nature are indexed to inflation.
But dollar savings will be converted at a rate of 1.4 pesos to the dollar, and will then be indexed to inflation.
But dollar savings are being converted at an exchange rate of 1.4 pesos to the dollar, and will then be indexed to inflation.
The solution is a "dual-index" mortgage, in which the principal balance is indexed to inflation, and payments are indexed to Mexico's government-decreed minimum wage.
Germany also wanted things like wages indexed to inflation, higher retirement ages and borrowing limits, something that would prove very hard to sell to voters.
And since a large slice of Brazilian debt is indexed to the dollar, it could also raise the percentage of debt as a share of GDP.
These have been pegged to the dollar and indexed to United States' inflation, even though prices have been falling in Argentina for the past five years.
Critics of the tax say it is flawed because it is not indexed to inflation, meaning that an increasing number of people will have to pay it.
Its holdings include funds indexed to the total U.S. stock market (about 72% of assets) and total U.S. bond market (about 10%), along with three international index funds.
He also wants modest increases in beneficiary contributions: co-payments are to be introduced for certain laboratory tests and deductibles for doctor visits are to be indexed to inflation.
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The eligibility thresholds, moreover, are indexed to grow over time.
Spain is so far the biggest contributor to wage inflation as salaries in its private and public sectors have become increasingly indexed to inflation over the last five years.
This threshold will be indexed to inflation going forward.
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It included stock in the airline, pay raises, job protections and work rules that three years later would have brought American pilots to a contract indexed to Delta, United and US Airways contracts.
First, many entitlement payments are indexed to inflation.
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Taxes on inherited estates will go up to 40% from 35%, but the exemption will be indexed to rise with inflation -- a provision the source said was added at the insistence of moderate Democrats.
In 1975 -- by no coincidence the first year that benefits were indexed to inflation -- Social Security's pension fund, whose formal title is Old-Age and Survivors Insurace (OASI), paid out more than it took in.
The virtue of this plan is that it would be similar to the treatment of COLAS In private industry: workers whose wages are indexed to inflation generally get raises equal to only a portion of the CPI increase.
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