Thus, while we cannot say that tax-paid health spending is the sole factor responsible for the decline in freedom, it assuredly was an important contributor.
Many economists, for example, argue that the total exclusion from tax of employer-paid health insurance and the generous tax breaks for homeownership inflate demand and prices in those sectors.
Buffett then reiterated his call to raise the tax rate on capital gains, which would increase the income-tax rate paid by the wealthy.
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You hear what he says, you hear the argument he makes on behalf of middle-class Americans and where we need to take this country and, as a substantive policy argument, why we cannot embrace policy proposals that, in the kindest possible light -- according to the Tax Policy Center -- would, if implemented, result in massive tax breaks -- tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires paid for by middle-class families.
Since Nigel Lawson lowered the top tax rate from 60% to 40% in 1988, the share of total income-tax revenues paid by the top 5% of taxpayers has shot up.
Mr Brown has simplified some things for example, by aligning the national insurance and income-tax systems for the low-paid but has made others more complex.
Then, there is the 51-cent tax credit paid to blenders of the fuel and a 54-cent tariff on imported ethanol to keep cheaper foreign producers out of the market.
SNP's plans to put 1p on the basic income-tax rate paid by Scots, in effect annulling the tax cut promised by Mr Brown for next year.
As with Katrina, there is a back story for government's dysfunction: It's a long saga involving the fervent renunciation of the idea of financial regulation, bought-and-paid-for tax favors, confusion about how globalization affects money markets, a general ignorance about the modern financial world and a stunning lack of common sense.
According to its published accounts, the company made a pre-tax loss in 2010-11 and paid no dividends to shareholders.
By offering his own pint-sized, poll-tested and (ostensibly) paid-for tax credits for stay-at-home mothers, long-term care-givers and the like, Bill Clinton sounds both populist and responsible.
The self-assessment returns from January, when most income tax is paid by the better-off, have been eagerly awaited by the Treasury and government ministers as they provide the first evidence of the success, or failure, of the 50p rate.
Most of his income is from a disability policy and is tax-exempt because he paid for the policy out of his own pocket.
The tax-free earnings of paid-up life insurance give it a built-in advantage as its yields are closer to taxable bond returns.
His Roadmap would overhaul and simplify the tax code, but it would also eliminate itemized deductions and the tax exclusion for employer-paid health care plans.
The top 1% represented 13.3% of all pre-tax income and paid 38.7% of all Federal income taxes in 2009 (July 2012 CBO Report, Distribution of Household Income and Federal Taxes 2008 and 2009).
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No matter how much you wiped out your income with exotic tax perks like intangible drilling costs and other tax-shelter sounding items, you paid a smaller alternative tax rate on virtually everything with no deductions.
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Meanwhile, in France, women are toughing it out with free all-day childcare, per-child tax benefits and allowances, four-month paid maternity leaves and a state-paid personal trainer to get back in shape after childbirth.
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Since that would benefit only the half of French workers who have to pay income-tax, his equivalent bonbon for about 9m low-paid was to lower the rate at which they would have to pay two charges levied on all workers to help pay for health and unemployment insurance.
And he promises not to increase the share of income tax paid by low- and middle-income households.
Gift aid enables charities to reclaim the tax paid on one-off donations.
Ever since 1921, and most recently reconfirmed by legislation in 1976 and 1986, Congress specifically has chosen not to tax interest paid to non-resident foreigners.
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One way to reduce health insurance subsidies is to eliminate the tax-exemption for employer-paid health insurance premiums, while simultaneously lowering other taxes to hold revenue constant.
In his keynote speech, Mr Clegg also pledged to do more to reduce the tax burden for the lowest-paid, saying next week's Budget must have "fairness" at his heart.
Executives who cash in future deferrals early (except for a few specified reasons) will owe a hefty 20% tax penalty--twice that paid by folks taking early distributions from Individual Retirement Accounts or 401(k)s.
Stormont wants to reduce the tax - which is a levy paid on the profits of companies - to equal, or even below, the 12.5% rate of its island neighbour, the Republic of Ireland.
You can use money that you borrow in order to calculate the deduction but you cannot claim a deduction or credit based on expenses paid with tax-free scholarship, fellowship, grant, or education savings account funds such as a Coverdell education savings account, tax-free savings bond interest or employer-provided education assistance.
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