The claim is that a preferential tax rate is a subsidy: renewables have preferential tax rates therefore they are receiving this subsidy.
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In the United States, however, mortgage debt is encouraged through a subsidy in our tax code that, in fact, provides the greatest subsidy to those with the largest mortgage and, typically, the highest incomes.
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Not acknowledged here is that this tax subsidy makes businesses marginally less caring about the price of insuring their employees, and this subsidy means individuals not on a company plan must suffer higher health costs driven up by this tax benefit.
Another high-profile captive is an extra-generous tax subsidy for employees who commute by mass transit.
The U.S. government already supports ethanol with a tax subsidy equivalent to 51 cents per gallon of ethanol.
The federal government already supports ethanol with a tax subsidy equivalent to 51 cents per gallon of ethanol.
The answer to this problem is to offer the same tax subsidy to all, regardless of how they obtain their insurance.
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Does anybody think that oil companies need a tax subsidy right now?
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Such is the madness caused by an on-again-off -again tax subsidy.
The problem is ultimately traceable back to the tax subsidy--the exclusion of the value of health coverage from taxable income for both payroll and income taxes.
Keep in mind that while studies often look at the consequences of eliminating the MID, most proposals would restructure, not repeal, the tax subsidy for home purchases.
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Like the killers in bad slasher movies, this tax subsidy wreaks havoc wherever it goes, appears to meet its demise in the last reel, yet returns to create more misery.
However, there is a contrary case to be made: It may be that with both interest rates and prices so low, this could be the ideal time to redesign the tax subsidy for home ownership.
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The subsidy provides an income tax credit of two cents per kilowatt hour for electricity produced by windmills.
Our current renewable energy subsidy path (including tax credits, grants, mandated purchases and government loan guarantees) has proved to be unsustainable for a variety of reasons.
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So in the macroeconomic sense, the destructive outcome of either a tax credit or subsidy is often the same.
Call me cynical, but I think the 4o1(k) and the tax-advantaged subsidy granted those who utilize it is quite safe indeed.
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Tax breaks and subsidy programmes can create a short-term boost, he says.
But Mr Cameron, who insisted that cutting the "spare room subsidy" was not a tax, said support for disabled people was not being cut.
And if that happens if, in effect, the IRS writes the checks instead of HHS a big chunk of the subsidy would morph into a tax cut.
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In most states, solar installations are driven by state renewable energy incentives that can be added to the federal 30% subsidy known as the investment tax credit.
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For this reason, the foreign tax credit has never been defined as a subsidy by any administration or Congress in any comprehensive study examining energy tax policy.
Indian politicians are addicted to a tax-and-subsidy regime of bewildering complexity, and deterred from tampering with it by a crowded electoral timetable.
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Would a Medicare subsidy program be run through the tax code?
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Thus, applying CVD duties and antidumping duties against imports from NME countries double counts the amount of the subsidy and results in a double tax on imports.
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But by increasing the value of the working families tax credit, a subsidy for low earners, the government will make it more attractive, especially for lone parents, to work instead of raising a family.
None of these taxes applies to renewables: thus renewables have a preferential tax treatment to fossil fuels and are subsidised because, recall, their whole case rests on the idea that a preferential tax rate is a subsidy.
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If we think of the highway subsidy as a sort of negative tax, which we should, then the explanation for the trend Cox spots is equally clear: people are driving more because they are paid more to do it.
First, the topic was the elimination of a subsidy, not the addition of a tax.
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