The pension tax reliefs that were very generous in the past have had to be removed.
Some economists maintain that such reliefs are distorting and mean higher taxes for everyone else.
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Here, bas-reliefs of apsara dancers and pillars enlivened with Sanskrit inscriptions celebrating good deeds take on a rosy hue.
The Liberal Democrats also want to reduce the corporate-tax rate, paying for it by removing "complex reliefs".
In a rising market, it is all too easy to forget about tax reliefs, but they have now become vital.
The far wall features carved doors, this time tightly shut and flanked by deeply carved reliefs of a man and woman.
So even if the property you are letting out is still generating profit, ensure that you claim all available reliefs and deductions.
Find your way, though the police would rather you did not, to remote Abydos and its exquisite bas-reliefs honouring the god Osiris.
Unhappily, the two other stolen reliefs have yet to be found.
If it were combined with an assault on other tax reliefs, then it would simplify a tax system that is groaning with complexity.
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If he wants to, however, he could increase the personal-tax burden without breaching his pledges by freezing personal allowances and scrapping tax reliefs.
"We will reform the corporate tax system by simplifying reliefs and allowances, and tackling avoidance, in order to reduce headline rates, " said Mr Osborne.
"The government is committed to supporting these creative and dynamic sectors by introducing tax reliefs for these industries, " said Creative Industry Minister Ed Vaisey.
Eventually ministers advanced a better case: that no one should be able to opt out of paying tax altogether, as unlimited reliefs currently allow.
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Small, targeted tax reliefs may strike voters as a piffling response.
One suggestion which the Government may wish to consider is to extend the principle, already adopted for stakeholder pensions, of giving tax credits rather than just tax reliefs.
Instead, the VAT holiday would be paid for by interest charged on the deferred tax, and the national-insurance cut would be funded by ditching various reliefs and allowances.
"They said alright, you can take over your nightshift on Friday night and we'll alter the reliefs to go back onto their shifts on the Saturday morning, " he recalled.
Several buildings in Odessa are adorned with reliefs of two young girls with nooses round their necks: they hanged themselves, legend has it, after falling prey to white-slave traders.
One of the center squares contained a newly discovered pillar with the most intricate bas-reliefs to date: rows of sinuous-necked cranes and snakes packed efficiently together, like sardines in a can.
If pressed to mark the change exactly, Mr Stella dates it to the moment when a museum wall could no longer take the weight of one of his increasingly turbulent reliefs.
The first room of the exhibit discusses the parallels between the mythic and historical city of Uruk and displays some stunning terra cotta busts and reliefs depicting popular episodes from the epic.
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Arp was making sprightly geometric and free-form collages and reliefs, often composed by games of chance for example, shapes in colored paper dropped onto sheets of white paper and glued down more or less where they fell.
Gold leaf mosaics, bronze wall reliefs of Napoleon and elaborate wall and ceiling murals make this place feel like any other museum in the city, save for the fact that this is where you are sleeping.
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Self-assessment involves completing a tax return in order to tell the HMRC about income and capital gains - profits on the sale of certain assets - or to claim tax allowances or reliefs against your tax bill.
Though the labeling does not explain how the works are made, some reliefs appear to be molded, others incised, then painted by applying pigment directly onto the clay or on a base coat of lime or other material.
This archaeological site, the subject of The Sanctuary, by Elif Batuman in the New Yorker, consists of rings of monumental limestone pillars rivaling Stonehenge in size, carved with bas-reliefs of all sorts of threatening animals and dating from 9, 000 B.
The site comprises more than sixty multi-ton T-shaped limestone pillars, most of them engraved with bas-reliefs of dangerous animals: not the docile, edible bison and deer featured in Paleolithic cave paintings but ominous configurations of lions, foxes, boars, vultures, scorpions, spiders, and snakes.
Figural and symbolic reliefs are not high overhead as in the Parthenon or Chartres Cathedral, but at one's own level so that one is immersed in the visual experience most of the piers are little more than twice my height, and the figuration begins immediately above the socle (base).
The new body will initially conduct two reviews - the first looking at all 400 tax reliefs, allowances and exemptions in the system to see how they can be streamlined, and the second finding ways to simplify the tax system for small businesses, including finding a simpler alternative to the controversial IR35 code.
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