Simply put, an effective tax code from a revenue standpoint facilitates the very deficits that keep conservatives up at night.

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And it is interesting that, for him, the fundamental question is whether it is possible to have an effective single code of conduct for a universal bank like Barclays, when the motivations and instincts of investment banking traders and branch managers are so different.

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Tax reform will make the tax code more efficient, effective, and globally competitive.

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The 50% bonus depreciation provision was put in the tax code as a business gimme in the 2007 stimulus package, effective Jan. 1, 2008 through Dec. 31, 2012 (a repeat of a temporary break Congress used back in 2002).

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The hope of Barclays is that a single code of conduct for the entire bank can be written and procedures put in place to make it effective.

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