The basic contention is that enjoying a preferential tax rate is equal to receiving a subsidy.
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These options are also commonly known as statutory or qualified options, and they can receive preferential tax treatment in many cases.
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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When it did arrive, the preferential tax treatment made it all worthwhile.
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Thankfully, preferential tax treatment of dividend income has been largely preserved.
This system began as a result of wage caps during World War II, and then expanded when preferential tax treatment for employer plans was codified into law.
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In the near-term that will depend upon how willing and able world governments are to prop up panel manufacturers with preferential tax breaks and other subsidies to make them affordable.
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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.
Citi analyst Brian Chin doesn't anticipate that the tax cuts will completely disappear and that the potential is for an upside surprise in utility stocks when some kind of compromise to maintain preferential tax rates is struck.
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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Try to think of another industry where businesses can charge tens of thousands of dollars for their services, while at the same time receiving donations from happy old customers and receiving preferential tax treatment from Uncle Sam.
The special provisions under which this subsidy apparatus functions take a variety of forms, covering exclusions from income, exemptions, deductions, credits against tax, preferential rates of tax, and deferrals of tax.
In Virginia we just passed a law that gives veterans and senior citizens preferential property tax treatment.
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The Shanghai municipal government set new price guidelines on homes that qualify for preferential transaction tax treatment, widening a tax benefit for many home buyers in the city as developers struggle with falling sales there.
Currently, qualified dividends are taxed at a preferential 15% tax rate.
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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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That would slash deductions, credits, tax exclusions, and preferential rates by nearly 30 percent.
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This involves looking at all of the contracts related to joint operating agreements, areas of mutual interest, preferential rights to purchase assets, cash calls, tax partnerships, gas balancing agreements, and more.
And if you look at where the benefit of those tax expenditures go, the vast majority of special provisions and preferential rates are for those with the highest incomes.
Housing markets may be forever doomed to cyclicality for many reasons, but public policies that stimulate new construction or home purchases by tax and financing subsidies, reduction of qualifying incomes, buyer credits, mortgage backstopping, and preferential zoning and permitting, only intensify these cycles.
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