Burma awaits an updated foreign investment code with stronger rights, protections and tax incentives.
Linux distributions, open source and proprietary software projects will benefit from Linaro's investment, with more stable code becoming widely available as a common base for innovation.
The legislation also modifies the tax code to encourage investment in new businesses, accelerates the commercialization of university research that can lead to new ventures, and seeks to improve the regulatory process.
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The Tax Code change that generated the massive investment of the Internet run of the 1990s was the removal of the passive loss deductions from the tax code.
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The right to harvest is a terrific gift from Congress, partly making up for the many ways that our tax code punishes savings and investment.
In overseas capital markets and increasingly on Wall Street, "Shariah advisors" are being hired at great cost to bless investment instruments as compliant with this religious code.
Cain wants to simplify and flatten the tax code, replacing taxes on income and investment with taxes on consumption?
In December officials from Britain's financial-services regulator went to New York to study America's bankruptcy code, which has special provisions for investment banks.
To his rescue came quirky Section 1031 of the tax code, under which the owner of investment property (a farm, an airplane, you name it) who swaps it for similar property does not recognize a taxable gain.
Since the mid-1990s Kellogg has used an obscure provision in the tax code to shield hundreds of millions of dollars of investment earnings from taxes.
To attract investment of foreign dollars into the U.S. economy, the Internal Revenue Code generally exempts these deposits from taxation and reporting requirements.
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The more progressive the tax code, the more economics has to compensate to provide the same return on investment.
By eliminating the preference afforded these two types of investment income, Bowles and Simpson believed they could retain the progressivity of the current tax code.
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By eliminating the dozens of carve-outs that make the current code so incomprehensible, we will renew incentives for entrepreneurial risk-taking and investment that creates jobs, inspires Americans to work hard and forms the foundation of a strong economy.
Pro-growth policies include reform of the tax code to make it simpler, more transparent and more conducive to long-term investment.
Every dollar a company pays to a foreign government will ultimately cost the U.S. treasury a dollar because the U.S. must provide a dollar-for-dollar credit for foreign taxes paid on foreign income, under both the U.S. tax code and bilateral U.S. treaties with most of our major trade and investment partners.
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In the long run, reform would also encourage foreign investment in Japan, steer firms towards the most profitable investments and lessen the influence of the tax code on companies.
Problem is that renting out real estate is penalized in the tax code under Section 469 passive activity rules and that put a major damper on this timely investment idea.
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.
The other promise I made during the campaign was to ensure that our tax code doesn't provide relief and a competitive advantage to companies that move jobs and investment outside of the United States relative to companies that are investing here in the United States.
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