It came as he defended his plans to cut spending and end child benefit for higher rate taxpayers.
Will, for example, a two-year trial demonstrate sufficient benefit when the rate of decline in patients might occur over a 10-year period?
But unless all of the costs fall on the top 5 percent who benefit from the rate cut, any reduction in tax expenditures must raise taxes on low- and middle-income households.
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With the passage of every year the value of that benefit falls by the rate of inflation.
Buffett would end up paying 28% on gains while middle-classers continued to benefit from a low rate.
When did you last hear of a health-insurance plan whose annual update was a benefit improvement but no rate increase?
In an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Osborne was asked how much he would benefit from the top rate change.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg had earlier told the BBC that the government would "look at how you administer the removal of child benefit from upper-rate earners".
What should give policymakers in the UK some pause for thought is that in Ireland and Spain, two economies which are locked into the euro and therefore don't have the benefit of an exchange rate which can adjust to their national economic conditions, there has been significant recovery in their respective current account deficits.
For 2013, for high-earners who are subject to the new 39.6% top federal income tax rate, the benefit is even greater.
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The check you will receive in the mail represents your benefit from the newest lowest rate which drops from 15 percent to 10 percent.
The fines against Barclays came after it admitted some of its trading desks purposely manipulated the rate for personal benefit during the height of the global financial crisis.
In January, Mr Cameron gave the first hint of a government rethink when he warned of the "cliff edge" some families might face with the removal of child benefit for all top-rate taxpayers.
Income tax is one possible target not least because far more of the benefit of a 10p tax rate would go to the better-off than to the poor, some of whom earn too little to pay tax.
While taxable accounts enjoy the benefit of a lower tax rate on capital gains, the annual tax pressure may severely handicap this category, compared to the others, when it comes to investments earmarked for future retirement income.
The overall AMT tax rate will be lower than your ordinary income tax rate, so why not hold off and get the benefit of the deduction when you're at a higher rate?
In Ms Bevacqua's day, INDEC artificially boosted the inflation rate, perhaps to benefit holders of inflation-linked bonds, she claims.
Big oil firms would indeed benefit from a lower corporate tax rate.
"The flat rate approach has the benefit of speed and simplicity but is rough justice for those who have lost considerably more, " he said.
In fact, because older adults with heart disease often are less able to exercise and have a higher disability rate, they may benefit the most from a cardiac rehabilitation program.
Are the Republican Presidential candidates genuinely concerned about small businesses or are they focused on big corporations who would undoubtedly benefit from a lower corporate tax rate and a repeal of the Dodd-Frank Act?
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We would observe the reduction in the death rate from accidents as a benefit.
Cost-benefit analysis (which puts a discount rate on the future, and measures in dollars and cents) is wicked.
But the single biggest cut will come from the controversial removal of child benefit from families with a higher-rate taxpayer from 2013.
This means that businesses in Denmark stand to benefit from the elimination of exchange-rate risk when dealing with their main trading partners.
The lower tax rate on dividends provides little benefit, economically speaking.
The impact on savers is always a partial offset to the benefit to borrowers of a low interest rate policy, but this combination has gone on too long.
The benefit from the reduction in their top rate from 39.6% or even 35% or 33% to 25% far outweighs any damage that can be done by eliminating deductions.
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But she warns that before you go this route, you should weigh the benefit of a 5% lower marginal rate (that is paying 55% instead of 60% while the estate is in surtax territory) against the value of deferring more of the taxes until the second spouse dies.
The jobless rate in Ireland , based on benefit claimants, jumped from 8.3% to 9.2% in January.
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