For the gap between Labour and Tory Britain widened on May 6th, thereby reducing the number of marginal seats.
If the tax rate on dividends goes up to the top marginal rate, the number of companies paying dividends will most surely go down with it.
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What this means is that the usual strategy of pouring resources into the small number of marginal seats that can swing an election one way or the other is of little use.
And this year, despite optimistic forecasts of a great flurry of wings, Scottish gamekeepers think that there has been only a marginal increase in the number of birds flying the gauntlet of the guns.
That our elections are decided by a small number of voters in marginal seats?
The study suggests that each reduction of one percentage point in the marginal tax rate could increase the number of new businesses by as much as 2%.
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The big gap between the headline and effective marginal tax rates reflects the large number of allowances given to firms for doing particular activities, such as research and development.
"Whilst there have been marginal improvements in performance and outlook for a number of businesses across the manufacturing and construction sectors, this is against a background of poor expectations at the end of summer 2012, " he said.
Hence a higher number of Internet users than we expect will have a marginal impact on the stock price.
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Tax reform must reduce the size and number of tax expenditures to reduce the budget deficit and lower marginal tax rates for individuals and corporations.
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That has a number of advantages for ministers, not least that there are few Labour marginal seats anywhere near.
The cloud market is growing at such a pace that the number of job postings is accelerating and yet the talent qualifying for these roles is marginal.
If the marginal groups in a city are not integrated into the city, you will have problems at a number of levels.
The model can determine the marginal value of hiring ten new drivers who live in central Illinois, say, based on the number of times that freight departs from the Midwest.
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The Tory party's strategy at the boundary review - as a party - was to reduce the number of safe Tory seats so their votes were more evenly spread among more, winnable marginal seats.
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