She was going to divorce him and use his tax exposure to leverage a better financial settlement for herself in the divorce, and possibly report Ron to the IRS Criminal Investigation Division.
Here's another tax reason not to work with your spouse: When divorcing couples have worked together in a business, it is not uncommon for one spouse to use the other spouse's alleged tax fraud to leverage a better divorce settlement.
Reform of the tax code provides more leverage for increased growth than any other policy action.
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Public employee unions have a lucrative racket: They essentially leverage the tax dollars they receive in dues from the salaries and benefits of their members to lobby for more tax dollars to secure even fatter pensions and pay.
That adjusts for companies that have different ratios of leverage, different tax rates, all those things.
So I would urge you to think about leverage, where a dollar of fiscal spending -- and this is spending money, primarily, or targeted tax relief -- can leverage a lot of private money.
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Cornell University economists Richard Burkhauser, Sean Lyons, and Kosali Simon (Indiana University) wrote for the Employment Policies Institute on another method by which employers and employees can leverage health insurance tax credits to their advantage.
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Now, with all the fees, not many a film pays off at 2-to-1, but the deal could still make sense if the investor used a lot of leverage to goose the tax effect.
Tax laws, specifically those which encourage leverage while discouraging the accumulation of equity capital on balance-sheets, are perhaps the greatest deterrent to its effective operation.
In fact, many of the cardinal sins of financial excess seem to be part-and-parcel of the ETF business these days: extreme leverage, market manipulation and tax bills that can blindside unsuspecting investors, to name a few.
Some examples of Recovery Act programs that leverage other investment funds are tax credits for advanced energy manufacturing, loan guarantees for small businesses, and interest subsidies for state and local borrowing to finance essential infrastructure projects.
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Companies are taxed heavily for making investments with equity, yet the tax code actually pays companies to invest using leverage.
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Trade on CFTC-sanctioned foreign OTC platforms respecting CFTC rules on LIFO and perhaps 10:1 leverage or take their chances in offshore tax havens.
The question is, with most of the GOP already deeply invested in using the debt ceiling as leverage to force a spending reduction without ridding our tax code of perverse elements of corporate welfare, can they still be brought back from the brink?
Another problem with the Hollywood tax credit programs is the potential for state legislators, bureaucrats, and lobbyists to leverage their crony connections to profit at taxpayer expense.
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This would have given the Republicans in the House tremendous leverage to bargain for real pro-growth provisions as part of the tax cut package that the American people would have demanded.
"We often advise our funds, especially those with swaps or high leverage, to organize as an offshore vehicle for U.S. investors because of the tax advantages, " he says.
Senate Democrats believe the White House had far more leverage at the end of 2012, when Republicans were eager to avoid across-the-board tax increases under what was called the fiscal cliff.
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