High uncertainty in credit markets has been caused by the Greek crisis, worries about the Italian and Spanish economies, and concerns about the effects of the debt agreement in the US. This is making it more difficult for smaller manufacturers with weaker balance sheets to acquire cost effective working capital to service orders on their books.
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Disclosure simply allows a proper understanding and control over the effective use of capital employed as executive compensation.
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The confidence of all users of financial statements in the transparency and integrity of financial reporting is critically important to the effective functioning of capital markets, efficient capital allocation, global financial stability and sound economic growth.
For example, the Dallas Business Journal reported that the top effective tax rate on capital gains will rise in 2013 from 15% to 25%.
Mr. Cameron's tactics don't appear to have been very effective: He burned political capital in return for nothing.
Will our successful entrepreneurs opt to leave the UK as a result of this effective 80% increase in capital gains tax?
The strategy is central to Sir John's plans to rein in street criminals in the capital while maintaining effective anti-terrorism policing.
In 2003, taxpayers faced a slew of changes, including new capital gains rates effective mid-year and a new lower rate on so-called qualified dividends.
Assume stocks return 7% a year, dividends continue to be taxed at 15% and the effective tax rate on accruing capital gains in a taxable account works out to 7.5%.
If job creation through crowdfunding is going to be effective, and credible, there needs to be data and tracking behind it, which will in turn help guide all those involved in creating access to capital towards more effective jobs creation.
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According to my ninth book, Capital Rising, co-authored with Srini Rangan, the EE consists of four key elements: transparent and efficient financial markets, reliable and effective corporate governance systems, human capital development systems, and clear and supportive intellectual property protection laws.
And yet--if only to insure against catastrophic global climate change that could irreversibly damage the world's human, natural and physical capital--an effective global agreement on mitigation must be achieved and put into force by the time the Kyoto Protocol's implementation period ends in 2012.
This amounts to a tax on capital inflows, and the effective tax rate becomes very high if the money remains in the country only briefly.
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In fact, I believe self-interested vigilance on the part of capital suppliers will be more effective in reducing bank failures than our regulators have been.
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With no need to pay dividends (state firms do not have to make any transfers to central government) and little shareholder pressure to ensure that their investment is cost-effective, Chinese firms went on a capital-spending binge, concentrated in industries such as aluminium, steel, car production and cement.
"The results suggest that this kind of pressure is effective and that U.S. capital markets are exceedingly important to a company's success in raising the large-scale amounts of capital required to sustain one of the largest energy companies in the world, " according to Adam Pener, senior analyst at the Washington, D.
Casey Institute's work in the emerging field of capital markets-related transparency and security, champions of effective action against the Khartoum government have begun to demand that access to the U.S. capital markets be denied to foreign firms that operate in Sudan's energy sector.
Effective risk management can help a carrier free up capital, as well.
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Irrespective of how effective these moves might be, many argue that capital-control measures cannot be part of a long-term solution to volatility.
Raising your personal income tax rate on dividend and capital gain income to 30 percent increases your effective tax rate to 45.3 percent.
The more efficient and effective approach is to allow profitable companies to return excess capital to their shareholders without subjecting those dividends to discriminatory tax treatment.
Examples around the world suggest that financial capital alone may not be sufficient to spur effective entrepreneurship among people who may lack business acumen, a vetted opportunity, and a network of advisers.
Again, tax codes that are effective revenue generators appeal to investors who might otherwise deploy their capital in more productive concepts.
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The real benefits of home ownership are any capital appreciation, plus the imputed rent, minus the effective cost of the mortgage and property taxes, other costs, and the return you could earn on your down payment elsewhere.
Some have tried capital controls instead but it is not clear such measures are effective.
Verizon should be able to handle 4G traffic in a more cost-effective way than 3G, which will eventually boost its returns on invested capital, said Chaplin.
Romney must exuberantly defend the lower capital gains tax rate of 15% as moral, just and effective.
Tax laws, specifically those which encourage leverage while discouraging the accumulation of equity capital on balance-sheets, are perhaps the greatest deterrent to its effective operation.
As simple logic tells us, private sector businesses that destroy capital in the way governments do are happily starved of funds so that more effective stewards can replace them as investment recipients.
Instead of taxes and redistribution, the reformed programs rely on modern capital, labor and insurance markets, highly productive savings and investment, and highly effective, pro-growth market incentives.
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