"Fifty-seven other scheme users cannot meet the tax demand, even if they were to sell all of their assets including their family home, " Mr Huitson's barrister claimed, drawing on a small survey of the scheme's users.
Among the sparks for the White House session was House Speaker Newt Gingrich's plan to temporarily take his party's sweeping tax cut demand off the table, putting his energy first into reaching a balanced budget agreement.
If demand for tax preferred qualifying dividends were to shift partly over to REITs as this tax advantage is removed, that increased demand should be a tail wind for REIT share values.
The recent outcome of the fiscal cliff deal drove higher tax rates for the top tax bracket from 35% to 39.6% but the silver lining is that higher tax rates will stimulate even more investor demand for tax exempt munis.
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Citizens must demand regulatory relief just as they demand tax relief.
The last time the housing market seemed to be in recovery mode was back in mid-2010, after the first-time homebuyer tax credit boosted demand for homes.
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Have we the courage and the will to face up to the immorality and discrimination of the progressive tax, and demand a return to traditional proportionate taxation?
As the very wealthy assume political power through the virtually unlimited campaign spending that the U.S. Supreme Court now allows, do they not also demand tax relief and legal protections?
Whenever budgets are tight, and politicians demand more tax money, it is always for teachers, firefighters, and police.
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But using a tax to reduce gasoline demand has never proven politically feasible in the United States.
The government spending that creates the demand for tax revenue soon draws resources away from more productive activities.
In return, however, Republicans will demand the tax cuts they are clamouring for.
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Though such heady returns are unlikely to continue this year, recent tax increases have bolstered demand, which in turn will help support the market.
"I would respectfully disagree that the American people are going to suddenly demand more tax hikes, " an aide to Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said.
The growth of the Chinese auto industry has been under pressure in recent month compared to last year when Beijing boosted demand with tax cuts and subsidies.
The Speaker has to know that for better or for worse the majority of Americans support the White House demand that tax rates be increased for the top 2 percent of Americans.
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Much of this decline is due to the high demand for tax free munis by individual investors in high tax states as well as generally, given the pending tax rate rises in 2011.
Airlines are exempt from emissions laws now and pay no fuel tax, and whereas demand for cars and electricity is predicted to grow only slowly, demand for flying is forecast to rise hugely over the coming decades.
To not support that, but then to demand protecting tax cuts for the wealthiest among us, and even extending them, is, to me, I would think an untenable position politically, even if it doesn't weigh on your conscience.
The report, written by the New Policy Institute (NPI) for the foundation, found 232 local authorities had devised schemes that would demand council tax from everyone regardless of income, while 58 will retain current levels of support for families.
Nick Robinson said Mr Cable's article had been approved by George Osborne's advisers and the business secretary was clear that he did not support Labour's broader call for the pace of deficit reduction to be slowed and for tax cuts to stimulate demand.
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"This is the week that they say there has to be some progress and I'm hopeful that we can make progress, but I have to say that it is imperative that Republicans get off this extraordinarily impractical and unsuppportable demand for tax breaks, " the South Dakota Democrat said.
Evernote is hiring as demand grows, tax breaks do not influence his decision about whether to hire.
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As wages go up, tax collections go up and demand for government services go down reducing the deficit.
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It said it was expecting an increase in demand ahead of tax increases which will double sales taxes to 10% by 2015.
Now his sequester demand is more tax increases and no spending cuts.
Demand-side tax cuts increase paychecks without encouraging more work and production.
Republican leaders oppose new tax hikes or revenue and demand substantial overhauls of entitlement programs, setting up another in the litany of congressional impasses of recent years.
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