None of these taxes applies to renewables: thus renewables have a preferential tax treatment to fossil fuels and are subsidised because, recall, their whole case rests on the idea that a preferential tax rate is a subsidy.
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The claim is that a preferential tax rate is a subsidy: renewables have preferential tax rates therefore they are receiving this subsidy.
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The basic contention is that enjoying a preferential tax rate is equal to receiving a subsidy.
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And when a club is in administration it must pay in full its debts to its football creditors - a policy that is opposed by HMRC, which is no longer a preferential creditor and often has to settle for a greatly reduced offer.
In what is a two part deal, Diageo will, in the first instance, buy 10% in United Spirits through a preferential allotment and 19.3% from Mallya who will retain a 14.9% stake and the title of chairman.
The Fund is under withering pressure to ease standard lending criteria for Russia on a preferential basis.
Common to such movements, Marty says, is the notion that god has a preferential option for the poor.
Even if the government offers insurers a preferential deal on restructured debt, the whole industry has been knocked flat.
Currently, qualified dividends are taxed at a preferential 15% tax rate.
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According to the physicists, when a large black hole captures a smaller object like a medium-sized star the process causes gravitational radiation to be emitted in a preferential direction.
Some have prospered: in Rajasthan, the Meenas dominate a preferential-treatment scheme to allocate government jobs to tribal people, which has let them become part of India's elite civil services.
Many, but not all, preferred shares produce qualified dividend income that is taxed at a preferential rate of up to 20% versus the ordinary-income rate of as much as 39.6%.
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Shaken by One Nation's sudden revival, Queensland's ruling conservative coalition has urged its voters to give their second vote Australia has a preferential system to the Hanson party, not the opposition Labor Party.
Preferential treatment at a charity concert doesn't seem right.
If there is going to be a preferential rate for capital gains, people are going to try to structure as much of their income to take the form of capital gain as possible.
That may be because foreign policy is often about more immediate problems (Britain's William Hague has devoted much effort to securing a preferential trade deal for Pakistan to help it recover from its floods).
Then, probably the most damaging, was the revelation that Mr Mandelson had been given a preferential loan by millionaire paymaster general Geoffrey Robinson to allow him to buy an upmarket home he couldn't otherwise afford.
Since partners are by definition insiders of the bankrupt company they can be liable for preferential transfers before a bankruptcy as creditors try to recover whatever they can from the estate, said Christopher Ward with Delaware bankruptcy lawyers Polsinelli Shughart.
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Also Friday, McCain's team fired off an ad about Obama's relationship with Jim Johnson, the former Fannie Mae chairman who resigned as head of the Democrat's vice presidential vetting team after allegations that he had received preferential terms on a mortgage from Countrywide Financial.
Early Friday, McCain's team returned fire with a commercial about Obama's relationship with Jim Johnson, the former Fannie Mae chairman who resigned as head of the Democrat's vice presidential vetting team after allegations he had received preferential terms on a mortgage from Countrywide Financial.
Because the majority of income earned by a private equity fund is dividends and long-term capital gains both of which are currently subject to a preferential 15% tax rate these service partners can effectively convert what many believe should be ordinary compensation income taxed at 35% into investment income taxed at a mere 15%.
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In August, the executive awarded a contract to build three vessels for the executive to a Polish yard claiming that European competition laws prevented them from giving "preferential treatment" to a Scottish shipyard.
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People who are much wealthier can take advantage of tax loopholes, capital gains preferential tax rates and a larger mortgage deduction, so they end up paying only about 20% in taxes.
Half a dozen preferential trade deals sound highly ambitious.
More damaging is the fact that the devolved Scots now enjoy important perks, such as some paid-for medicines and (soon) free university education, that the English don't preferential treatment that violates a deep if illogical English expectation that government should treat everyone everywhere the same.
According to a recent paper by Francis and Vavrus in Geophysical Research Letters, the preferential warming of the Arctic, with a concomitant decline in late-summer sea ice, results in a more meandering jet stream, which is why Sandy shifted westward, rather than being shoved out to sea by the normally strong westerlies associated with the jet.
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But as a matter of simple arithmetic, if the banks don't lose and Greece gains, there must be an additional subsidy in there somewhere from eurozone governments, either in the "high-quality assets" provided as a back up or, possibly, the promise of preferential treatment for these new bonds in the event of a default.
Klout measures the influence of social-media users (and some firms give people with a high Klout score preferential treatment).
Mr Reid denied he was given favourable coverage in the Sun or News of the World as a result of providing preferential access to government information.
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