The near 100-year history of the tax code teaches this inviolable law of politics: The higher the tax rate, the more tax carve-outs there will be for yacht owners.
Auditors started charging much higher fees after the law was passed and for several years thereafter.
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That's the combined effect of the new law's higher capital-gains rate and limitation on deductions, as well as a new tax this year to help pay for the new health-care law.
He bends the law for a higher purpose.
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Grubert and Altshuler figure the rate on investment in a low-tax country would rise to a negative 4.4 percent under the per-country version, far higher than the negative 24 percent under current law.
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In the words of Hanan Ashrawi, the Palestinians' minister of higher education, the Iraqis may be outside the law, but the Israelis are above it.
The states are ceding many blocking powers, but in return for new ones from the federal level, particularly in higher education, the penal system and civil-service law.
The survey, which Congress ordered as part of the 2008 reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, asked respondents about 15 regulations stemming from the law that colleges had identified as being particularly onerous.
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Even if repeal seems impossible, some see a chance to reform the blasphemy law demanding a higher burden of evidence for accusations, for instance.
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But this, or some other more transparent and accountable method of selection, will have to be considered as the Law Lords' profile becomes higher.
The Law of Demand (the higher the price of anything, the less will be taken) predicts that employment will be adversely affected, especially for young and unskilled workers.
The possibility of higher premiums has become the latest focal point of the political tussle over the health law, which marks its third anniversary Saturday.
Under the law, women cannot be charged higher premiums than men of the same age.
Why the higher numbers of those actually affected by the law?
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And yes, there is the matter of the cost of treating the medically uninsurable being passed on to the rest of us via higher premium costs, but it is the opponents of our current health care reform law who are quick to point out that insuring everyone will not lower our premium costs.
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Under the law, women will no longer face higher insurance premiums because of their gender.
These rates would be about 1 percent higher under an Obama law than under the Bush code.
By agreeing to harbor Mary Walker, the minister became an outlaw and embraced a "higher law, " or God's law.
As the 2006 law continues to phase in, the higher blended corporate bond rate is causing significant reductions in lump-sum pension values.
Research by Andrew Karolyi, of Ohio State University (who advises the New York Stock Exchange), and others finds that when foreign companies list in America, more analysts start covering them, and the extra transparency and higher governance standards demanded by American law helps their share prices.
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The conservatives have consistently argued that the law will expose Germany to a flood of immigrants, and will lead to higher unemployment.
The Law of Demand always works: the higher the price of anything, the less that will be taken, and this includes labor.
In 2005, the government passed a controversial hydrocarbons law that imposed significantly higher royalties and required foreign firms then operating under risk-sharing contracts to surrender all production to the state energy company in exchange for a predetermined service fee.
But the new law disallows that oddball deduction entirely for the same higher income folks and for the same five years.
Adding to the pressure was a WSJ report that the Fed may push for higher capital requirements from banks than required by law.
The law was passed in order to extend the possibility of higher education to a working class which had been excluded from the elite classical education offered by the traditional system.
The core of activists who mobilised their revolutions have been joined by motley groups pursuing narrower agendas, ranging from higher wages to women's rights to the imposition of sharia law, and to demands that other demonstrators stop protesting.
"The society is concerned that there are real dangers in government's wish to write into law that it should have the power to directly fund higher education partnerships and collaborative activities in 'strategically appropriate' circumstances without reference to independent knowledge experts in Hefcw, " it says.
"Grossly disproportionate" force will still be against the law in England and Wales, but the bar will be higher than the current "proportionate" force test.
At the Conservative Party conference, Justice Secretary Chris Grayling said "grossly disproportionate" force would still be against the law in England and Wales, but the bar would be higher than the current "proportionate" force test.
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