"It doesn't take the pressure off the government, " Seema Desai, India analyst for the risk-advisory firm Eurasia Group, said of IKEA's investment proposal.
AirAsia's investment proposal is the first by an overseas airline after India's government in September allowed foreign carriers to hold stakes of up to 49% in local airlines.
Some business leaders warned then that David Cameron's EU referendum proposal would hurt investment.
The Regulation of Undertakings and Development Law (RUDL) has been dropped after months of public consultation over fears the proposal would discourage investment in Jersey.
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How about the proposal to turn all investment advisers over to FINRA, the discredited brokerage industry self-regulatory organization?
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India's Foreign Investment Promotion Board had approved IKEA's proposal in January.
"The tax proposal would raise taxes on foreign investment into the U.S., thus discouraging such investment and the resulting job creation, " Paulson said in a letter to Rep. Jim McCrery, R-La.
It is true that Ken is no longer as red as he was in the 1980s. (Who is?) Some of his new ideas for London, such as a proposal to issue bonds to finance investment in the Tube, are perfectly sensible.
Paulson said Doggett's proposal would override existing tax treaties, disrupt investment in the United States and undermine Washington's ability to negotiate.
The proposal was approved at a meeting of the Foreign Investment Promotion Board, Economic Affairs Secretary Arvind Mayaram told reporters.
The meeting comes a few days before India's Foreign Investment Promotion Board, or FIPB, takes up the airline proposal for scrutiny.
Bills to raise tax revenues, relax limits on foreign investment in banks and to privatize power generation are languishing, although a proposal to open the retail industry to foreigners is ready for signing.
In an effort to sway debate now under way on the Farm Bill, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Thursday blasted a tax proposal put forward by Democrats, saying it could damage foreign investment in the U.S. and harm America's economic relations with its most important trading partners.
An interagency group known as the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) took a hard look at the proposal and, quite sensibly, rejected it on national security grounds.
Under their proposal even top bracket taxpayers would pay a maximum rate on this investment income of 20 percent in 2013 (plus an additional 3.8 percent under the tax provisions of the 2010 health law).
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Chief among these was a proposal for a hemisphere-wide free trade zone, which would boost investment in the Latin countries as well as expand trade along the lines of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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The die - as banks would see it - was cast when in June the chancellor rowed in behind the initial findings of the Independent Commission on Banking on its proposal to partially separate, or ring-fence, High St banking from investment or 'casino' banking.
On Jan. 21 the president proposed the "Volcker Rule, " named after former Fed chairman Paul Volcker, one of the biggest proponents of Glass-Steagall-type restrictions (although his current proposal--endorsed by the president--does not call for a separation of commercial and investment banking activities).
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