In fact, I am virtually certain that current low tax rates are a disincentive to economic growth and risk taking.
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However, higher tax rates create a disincentive to work and invest.
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In this case, low tax rates are creating a disincentive to take on investment risk and is allowing my friend to play golf rather than return to the work force.
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Economists argue about the disincentive effects of higher tax rates. (Messrs Piketty and Saez, the economists who have transformed analysis of income concentration at the top, reckon, controversially, that the optimal top income-tax rate could be as high as 80%.) But no one doubts that there are trade-offs.
He spoke of lowering the corporate tax rate--now a challenging disincentive to U.S. companies.
The tax system allowed (and continues to allow) married couples to split their income for tax purposes, which acts as a strong disincentive to wives going out to work.
Indeed, the estate tax's high rate suggests that it could have big disincentive effects.
You should understand the disincentive effects of massive, welfare-delivered marginal tax-rates.
Chief Justice Roberts raised the popular argument that the government already assesses cigarette taxes as a financial disincentive to smoking, and he likened that to a tax incentive to purchase health insurance.
Chandler explains that China's Value Added Tax, the country's largest revenue raiser, creates a huge disincentive for investment in energy efficiency projects.
Businesses have a disincentive to employ these people because they have to pay a very large payroll tax.
" Or as Ms. Klobuchar put it, "The tax is a burden on medical device businesses but, most importantly, it is a disincentive for jobs.
Low earners would be given tax breaks to help them save, eventually reducing public spending on pensions and muting the disincentive effects of means tests.
It seems our elected officials realized this tax, which applied to gross sales, not profits, just might serve as a disincentive for medical device makers to innovate new devices.
Paul Johnson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) points out that such calculations should take account of the behavioural changes the tax causes: an IFS study claimed the new rate could diminish revenues, because it provides a disincentive to those close to the threshold to carry on earning and makes mobile high earners less likely to come to Britain.
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