If Republicans choose to use these strategic gains to fight for spending cuts and future entitlement reforms in exchange for higher taxes, they will have fallen into the austerity trap that perpetuates the financial crisis in Europe and will have squandered their new-found position of strength.
In exchange for not paying taxes, REITs must fork over at least 90% of their net incomes to shareholders.
For instance, they prevented the GOP leadership from compromising with Obama on raising taxes in exchange for cutting entitlements and government outlays.
Rolling back the planned increases in the CAFE standards in exchange for higher gas taxes is a good policy trade conservatives should be willing to make.
In exchange for the payroll taxes that aren't paid out in benefits to current retirees in any given year, the trust funds got nonmarketable Treasury debt.
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In fact, you may get not a penny more back in exchange for all the taxes you paid to Social Security, grueling work week after grueling work week, year after year.
These folks, and their cousins at the IMF, routinely recommend policies that are too often destructive: floating exchange rates, devaluations, higher taxes.
So they are beginning to contemplate a compromise that would let taxes go up in exchange for Democratic concessions on GOP priorities.
It has been used to breach U.S. Treasury embargoes to places like Iran and Cuba, and by immigrants from Brazil and other countries with official exchange rates to evade currency controls and taxes.
Botswana also boasts lower corporate taxes, an absence of exchange controls, simpler labour laws and little of the violent crime that prompts South Africans to fit their cars with alarms, satellite tracking devices and even flame-throwers.
The idea is that in exchange for getting to defer or cut regular taxes you must make a partial payment now via the AMT.
At the same time it launched an amnesty program for employers to voluntarily reclassify workers in exchange for a reduced payment to cover back taxes.
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In exchange, citizens of Monaco do not have to pay income taxes.
They hope to persuade online sellers to sign up in exchange for guarantees that they won't be held liable for not collecting taxes on previous sales.
Properly structured, 1031-exchange securities can enable investors to shelter real-estate sales from capital-gains taxes, to obtain regular income and to bequeath the asset to their heirs in a tax-efficient manner.
Even as the state deficit persists, other big players such as the CME group, which operates the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Chicago Board of Options and Sears are threatening to leave unless their taxes are also lowered.
Special entrepreneurial plans reduce rate to 26% but apply only if stock is listed on a small stock exchange, such as Lyon's. 3 In January, capital-gains taxes for German companies to drop to zero. 4 Qualified business assets are subject to "taper relief, " and after holding for four years, the result is a 10% rate.
Under this provision, intended to ensure that taxes do not deter capable people from accepting government jobs, Mr Paulson is able to exchange his holdings in Goldman for various widely diversified investments.
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