Within a few months, the prospects for the legislation brightened and it became more likely that some form of the investment credit would be approved.
At the same time, deflation eats into the value of homes, increases the cost of investment credit for corporations, reduces profits and even wage packets.
Federal tax credit: The federal government offers a 30% investment tax credit on the cost of the system after rebates. (The credit is higher in Denver, for example, because there is no state or utility rebate.) To claim the full credit, your tax bill must be bigger than the credit.
The Flynns hired investment banker Credit Suisse First Boston to solicit bids for the license.
The investment tax credit is the marquee piece of legislation being pursued by the industry.
The federal government also offers a nice 30% investment tax credit for project developers.
The U.S. government has been generous, too, with a 30% investment tax credit for solar installations.
Solar is better off than wind but its 30% investment tax credit sunsets at the end of 2016.
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General Motors got some good news Friday: its first investment grade credit rating since going bankrupt in 2009.
Swiss investment bank Credit Suisse estimates that stadium work across Brazil is costing about 30% more than originally forecast.
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The EPS strategy would also expand the current investment tax credit to 30% of the total CHP system cost.
My question is in regards to the ITC and the PTC -- the investment tax credit and the production tax credit, renewable energy.
Generating yield substantially above 3% in the fixed-income world requires a foray into the lower levels of investment grade credit or junk bonds.
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One of the government incentives Mr. Reid supported for the renewable-energy industry was a 30% investment tax credit for companies in the solar-energy business.
The banks profit from investing in solar in two ways: They get tax advantages (the investment tax credit) as well as a single-digit rate of return.
In most states, solar installations are driven by state renewable energy incentives that can be added to the federal 30% subsidy known as the investment tax credit.
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On the table are an investment tax credit for solar power and production tax credits for solar, wind, geothermal and other renewables, set to expire at the end of the year.
In 1971, for example, the now-defunct Accounting Principles Board, in the interest of conservative financial reporting, stated that the investment tax credit should be amortized over the life of the asset for which it applies.
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The problem--at least for now--is that from taxes to spending to investment to credit, Obama is showing himself to be the very kind of Democrat that turned the electorate Republican in the past.
This time China's policymakers are stepping in to cool things down earlier than they did in the early 1990s, when inflation was far higher and investment and credit were growing even faster than today.
They're worried that if a simple investment tax credit, set to expire at the end of the year, isn't renewed, it could doom their industry just as it's starting to get off the ground.
The Tax Reform Act of 1986 basically cleaned out bloated tax benefits, like the Investment Tax Credit, as a way to generate enough revenue to allow for a significant lowering of marginal tax rates.
For fixed income investors who like this space due to higher yield investment grade credit, a word to the wise: a revamp of capital flows amid an economic slowdown may not be welcome by policymakers.
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Solar installations grew 37% in the U.S. last year and are likely to keep growing at a hefty clip, spurred by a combination of high fossil fuel prices and a 30% federal investment tax credit.
Federal loan guarantees, along with a investment tax credit and other incentives helped the U.S. solar power market more than double in 2010, with similar growth expected this year, according to analysts and solar power companies.
The built-in forces that drive the business cycle the sub-cycles of profits, inventories, investment and credit are still there in the numbers, masked though they may be by the unusual convergence of circumstances seen in the late 1990s.
For lots of good reasons, more corporations are turning to solar power installations: lower electricity bills, generous state rebates, the 30% federal investment tax credit and the overall "green" sheen that comes with putting solar panels on an otherwise unadorned corporate roof.
The law effectively eliminated the old 10% Investment Tax Credit (some of you may still remember those days) as well as the old longer term depreciation, with a new, more attractive shorter recovery period, referred to as the Modified Asset Cost Recovery System (MACRS).
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First Solar's management, the analyst added, was also one of the few who were willing to say that there was a less than 50% chance that the investment tax credit legislation, commonly referred to as ITC, will pass by the end of the year.
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