The third priority is to reform taxes, to make them a lot more efficient and somewhat fairer.
Brazilian officials say that before opening their markets further, they must reform taxes and cut the cost of credit.
Even then the two months between the election and the fiscal cliff would not be enough to reform taxes and entitlements.
He has tightened the budget, begun to loosen a sticky labour market, started to reform taxes, trimmed welfare, continued to privatise.
As I have written previously, it is not possible to reform taxes unless the reformers first agree on how much the new revenue code is supposed to collect.
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Legislation, for example, to reform taxes and mortgage policy.
But he has won praise for his prescriptions for Brazil's economy: low inflation and a hefty primary budget surplus for now and, in time, reform of taxes, labour laws and the money-losing pension system.
The Republican reformers, by contrast, promise reform without higher taxes, in part by confronting the unions.
But Mr. Ickert said he believes that comprehensive tax reform should reduce taxes and also address the time and complexity of filling out tax forms.
The recent health-care reform imposes new taxes as well as other possible fines and burdens, and the Obama administration is pressing for increases in at least some of our income-tax rates.
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Will Congress reform wealth transfer taxes before the sunset?
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Rather than campaign on a deep tax cut that would benefit high-earners, the Romney campaign might have instead championed a revenue-neutral tax reform that cut taxes dramatically on families with children while effectively raising them on childless high-earners.
But no such combination would promise real reform either of taxes or of anything else and Germany still needs to revamp its pension and health systems (despite recent tinkerings), to deregulate business and labour, and to sell off more state assets.
So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions, and tax relief for Americans, and trade we have got to see trade as opportunity, not as, uh, competitive, um, scary thing, but one in five jobs created in the trade sector today.
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The government has further plans, among them a tax reform replacing state sales taxes with a national value-added tax, and a second, more radical reform of pensions.
The Reagan tax reform essentially ended income taxes for the lower half of earners.
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Is that inconsistent with your political arguments that health care reform will not raise taxes on the middle class?
These may not just raise taxes but reform entitlements, notably Medicare and Medicaid, the federal health plans for the elderly and poor.
But pushing through a tax reform and collecting the taxes already owed are tasks that have proved too big for all previous post-Soviet governments.
He knows that no major reform of Medicare, taxes and the budget is not going to be bipartisan, and he knows that Democrats are going to demand higher taxes as part of the deal.
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While calling for reform of corporate income taxes, Bush said he does not support one provision in the House bill that allows businesses to seek refunds for payments of the alternative minimum tax back to 1986, when it was imposed during the Reagan administration.
Imagine today's Congress passing, by bipartisan majorities, legislation on two controversial issues: taxes and immigration reform.
You can probably tell from those numbers that the key elements of the speech did not involve taxes or tax reform.
Americans are prepared for both entitlement reform and perhaps even higher taxes.
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During his campaign he has spoken eloquently about the need to slash and simplify taxes and to reform workers' compensation and job-killing regulations.
Even if the government wins in the courts, it still needs to replace these costly, emergency taxes with lasting reform of public finance.
In place of the old taxes, the reform calls for a new consumption-based tax system, largely via expanding and slightly increasing the state sales tax.
Increasingly generous handouts and steeply progressive taxes make entitlement reform treacherous.
The state and federal tax code are so laced with tax credits and exemptions that any base-broadening, rate-cutting reform is bound to raise taxes on someone.
He also wants to reform the microeconomic structure of taxes.
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