He talked about it today, about the need to instill a little basic fairness in our tax code.
And marriage penalties live on in the basic tax structure because the higher brackets for joint filers are less than twice as wide as for single filers.
Look, say the pundits, at the net effect of his new lower income-tax band (starting next month), the cut in the basic rate of income tax from 23% to 22%, the changes to national insurance, the abolition of the married couples' tax allowance and the mortgage-interest allowance (all starting a year from now), the new child tax credit (from 2001), etc.
The manifesto confirms its ambitions on tax: for a lower 10p starting rate of income tax, for a cut from 8% to 5% in value-added tax on fuel, and for no increase in the 23p basic rate nor the 40p higher rate of income tax.
The government plans to try again, keeping the basic tenets of the tax in place.
Mr Salmond's big test will come in 2010, when he hopes to abolish council tax completely and replace it with a local income tax levied at a flat rate of 3p in each pound of basic-rate national income tax due.
And with Nationalist expectations that they would win far more seats than they did having been dashed, Mr Salmond is already having to deal with internal criticism of the campaign he ran, especially the decision to promise to raise the basic rate of income tax by 1p in the pound.
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Labour's manifesto - Ambitions for Britain - set out the party's goals until 2010 promising changes to public services but no rise in the basic or higher rates of income tax.
Mr Campbell, a former mayor of Vancouver, wants to stimulate the economy by cutting the province's basic rate of income tax to the lowest in Canada, easing regulation of business, and relaxing employment law.
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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.
The conference also urged the executive to support the Liberal Democrat policy to add a penny onto the basic rate of income tax, provide teaching facilities in Gaelic and other minority languages where there is demand, and ensure that class sizes are reduced across the whole age range of pupils.
The report points out that the vast majority (85%) of tax revenues already come from people in the top half of the distribution, but if the government wants to raise more from them, raising the basic rate of income tax for the first time in 40 years would be a decent place to start.
Simplifying names to something as basic as Tax-Deferred Until Retirement and Tax-Free In Retirement would help people understand how their savings would be treated in the future as well as the benefits of using more than one retirement account type.
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The Lib Dems, who want to lower the basic rate of income tax, said the plans would only result in a marginal saving for people on average incomes.
Distilling the various definitions offered by the parties and researched by this Court, we have concluded that there are several basic qualities a convent must contain in order to be eligible for a tax exemption: A convent consists of a community of people who live together, follow strict religious vows, and devote themselves full-time to religious work.
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And if they can manage, in one of their reports, to grasp the most basic point about tax incidence, the simple and classic economics of taxation, then the rest of us should be able to do the same.
She called for companies to publish a basic set of accounts for every country they operate in to make it easier for tax authorities to work out how much tax is owed.
PRD, in contrast, wants value-added tax removed from a range of basic goods and services, but increased on luxuries.
In 2008 Korea introduced an earned-income tax credit, a universal basic pension and an insurance scheme providing long-term care for the elderly.
And because folks in the middle class are more likely to spend their tax cut on basic necessities, that strengthens the economy as a whole.
Furthermore, the tax is considered to be disproportionate as funds could alternatively be raised by other means of budget attribution without affecting a basic freedom of the Treaty and, in any event, because the scope of the tax would be unrelated to the risks to be covered by the tax revenue raised.
Why not raise the income-tax threshold, in particular, rather than tinkering with the bands and basic rate?
Though his definition of harmful tax competition does not extend to basic rates of corporation tax, it would still target national tax breaks aimed at bringing in foreign investors.
Despite the considerable and, perhaps, justifiable hysteria surrounding the prospect of the expiring Bush-Era tax cuts, this year-end, at its most basic level, is fairly consistent with past years when we faced prospective increases or decreases in tax rates.
It was dubbed by some as a "rain tax, " but she says most Houstonians understand the need to invest in such basic public works.
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Subsidize lower-income people in some way, like refundable tax credits, to ensure people have money to buy good basic coverage, but then they'd have to add their own money if they wanted something more extravagant.
Notwithstanding this stated position, in FY 2009 the LDP allowed tax revenue to cover up to 50 percent of the cost of basic pensions.
The second is that in the economics of taxation is is a basic assumption (also a basic proof) that you want to tax capital incomes less than labour incomes.
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In the Budget last year, my Right Honourable Friend introduced just two rates of tax with the basic rate cut from 22 pence to 20 pence - the lowest rate for 75 years.
The tax relief will be a significant gain for AMT as it owns plenty of real estate in its basic business.
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