He calls it the 9-9-9 Plan, which consists of a brand-new retail sales tax layered on top of a new-and-improved business transactions corporate tax (a substitute for the current corporate income and payroll taxes), in turn layered on top of a new-and-improved comprehensive factor income tax (a replacement for the current mishmash of individual income and payroll taxes).
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The main factor is income, but other things are also important: health, freedom, unemployment, family life, climate, political stability and security, gender equality, and family and community life.
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Another important factor in income differences is education.
If you factor in endorsement income, Jordan alone might make the Tar Heels' lead insurmountable.
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So on the surface, it is still worth making the 401K contribution, and when you factor in state income tax rates, the advantage is clear.
Many factors affect exchange rates, but I learned that the most important factor was relative rates of income growth.
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Take a realistic look at your anticipated income, and factor in priorities that don't carry a price like the spouse and children you might want to have some day.
Capital gain rates are set to increase from 15% to ordinary income tax rates as high as 43.4% if you are in the top tax bracket and factor in the new Medicare tax on unearned income.
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In fact, television revenue is essentially the sole driving factor in conference value, while income from bowl games and basketball tournaments has been relegated to a rounding error.
And, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and other independent research have demonstrated that claims by illegal aliens have been a significant factor in the rise of Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) disbursements despite the fact that illegal aliens are ineligible for the tax benefits.
The second long-term factor was the shift in the distribution of income.
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Another factor to keep in mind is the level of income expected in order to qualify for a dream apartment.
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Running these two groups against some 250 variables, the credit union found that neither household income nor age was as significant a factor as it had earlier assumed.
Factor in the return to job cuts and stressed disposable income, and prospects for holiday spending this year are questionable.
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We like the combination of income with growth and it is an important factor in our stock selection process for the Global Resources Fund, as well as our other equity funds.
And, really, when you look at the lowest income, most of that is just simply a factor of age and marriage.
When businesses are planning to invest, a key factor is the expected path of macroeconomic variables like inflation and real income growth.
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Unscrupulous advisors prey on the elderly who, living off of a fixed income, are very sensitive to taxes as a meaningful factor over which they have no control.
The most important factor pushing reform is China's large and growing urban-rural income disparities.
Some businesses spend all the income and live the high life - this is a major contributory factor in relationship breakdown between the tenant and the business and is a recipe for disaster.
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Another factor to watch: a slow but steady shift away from equities into greater fixed income allocations.
Mr Katz says factor-based models suggest trade with poor countries explains only 5% of rising income inequality.
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When free-agent recruiters in Houston recruit players with promotional books that walk them through the dollars and sense of living in a no-income tax state, you know that it is a slam-dunk factor.
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The next most common factors is a drop in household income, which can be related to the death of a spouse or an independent factor. (Note: People who shift from owning to renting are generally economically less well-off than those who continue to own.) And the third factor: nursing home entry of a family member.
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Another factor lubricating the path to physician employment is generational: Doctors now in training appear willing to forsake income for a better quality of life and are less interested in the entrepreneurship required to run a private practice.
In some cases, tax rates are higher in other nations, but the main factor seems to be that the top tax rates in other nations are imposed at much lower levels of income.
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