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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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 answer to this problem is to offer the same tax subsidy to all, regardless of how they obtain their insurance.
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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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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.
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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So in the macroeconomic sense, the destructive outcome of either a tax credit or subsidy is often the same.
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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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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First, the topic was the elimination of a subsidy, not the addition of a tax.
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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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Governments have shown they can support consumption in specific areas, such as the cash-for-clunkers subsidy in cars or the homebuyers' tax credit.
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.
The subsidy provides an income tax credit of two cents per kilowatt hour for electricity produced by windmills.
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.
One idea being bandied about entails replacing the tax exclusion for interest on state and local bonds with a direct subsidy to the issuer of 15% for the interest paid on those bonds.
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Obama could have proposed a tax credit that would boost the insurance subsidy for low-wage workers while cutting it for those at the top of the food chain.
In 1960 only 15% of federal income tax returns had a zero tax liability, due mostly to low taxable income, a standard deduction, the personal exemption, the dependent exemption, and the Earned Income Tax Credit (a direct subsidy to people for being poor).
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Mr Varathan added that the government needed to reduce its subsidy burden, improve infrastructure, and simplify and streamline the tax regime.
The federal government already supports ethanol with a tax subsidy equivalent to 51 cents per gallon of ethanol.
Would a Medicare subsidy program be run through the tax code?
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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.
The 28-percent subsidy rate is approximately revenue neutral in comparison to the Federal revenue cost from traditional tax-exempt bonds.
The government wants to end what it calls the "spare room subsidy" for social tenants, but critics have dubbed the move a "bedroom tax".
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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But Mr Cameron, who insisted that cutting the "spare room subsidy" was not a tax, said support for disabled people was not being cut.
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.
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