Those sincere sentiments aside, there is unfortunately always a brass-tax business element to these stories.
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What about a tax credit or a cap on deductions an idea that is getting new attention as an element of tax reform.
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This meant, he said, that when the extra money to freeze council tax ended, "you're still losing that permanent element of a tax base".
We have never made the case that this element of tax reform would by itself solve our deficit and debt challenges.
The GOP refuses to consider any additional revenues as part of a fiscal deal or as an element of tax reform.
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It came as Ron Hogg announced a proposed 2% increase in the policing element of council tax bills.
Gloucestershire's crime commissioner wants to increase the policing element of council tax by 2% in his first budget.
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Dorset's police and crime commissioner (PCC) wants to increase the policing element of council tax by seven pence a week.
These include increasing working age benefits by 5.2% in April and the child element of Child Tax Credit by inflation.
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The child element of child tax credit and the disability elements of tax credit will be uprated in line with inflation, but other tax credit increases will be restricted.
On Friday, the commissioner's proposal to increase the policing element of council tax in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight by 3.4% was approved by Hampshire Police and Crime Panel.
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But the Labour council leader Phil Davies said the authority's element of the council tax will be raised by 1.6%.
If this tax issue is fixed, maybe some element of trust will be restored.
And so the question is, is there a way of achieving simplification, but still having some element of progressivity and some element of fairness in the tax system?
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Yet, they share a common element both arrangements are tax deductible.
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FSCs tend to be the richer ones, so the programme adds a regressive element to the otherwise flat corporate income tax.
And it in many ways just reiterates or reinforces why we have to get this payroll tax cut passed and why Congress really should pass every element of the American Jobs Act, because unemployment remains a significant problem that we need to tackle together.
And clearly, unemployment insurance is very much an element of the same kind of proposal the payroll tax cut extension and expansion is, and that it goes directly to assisting Americans make ends meet, and it has extremely positive impacts on the economy, on economic growth and job creation.
One important element of that legislation was that the personal marginal income tax rate structure would return to its 2000 level on January 1, 2011.
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"With regard to fairness perhaps the most important element is to ensure that we provide the bulk of tax relief to working families, " said Senate minority leader Tom Daschle.
An employee who exercises a non-statutory option must report the bargain element of the transaction as earned income that is subject to withholding tax.
Although qualifying ISO dispositions can be reported as long-term capital gains on the 1040, the bargain element at exercise is also a preference item for the Alternative Minimum Tax.
It is a key element of various forms of consumption taxes such as the National Retail Sales Tax (including the wildly misnamed FAIR tax).
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