In recent months, revelations from European authorities about the tax
avoidance strategies used by Google, Starbucks and Amazon have all stirred public anger and spurred several European governments, as well as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a Paris - based research organization for the world's richest countries, to discuss measures to close the loopholes.
Not exact matches
Danny Alexander, the chief secretary to the Treasury,
used the phrase in a speech promising a crackdown, not just on illegal tax evasion, but also on the
use of legal tax
avoidance strategies.
David Aaronovitch, a «dragon», was unsure whether this was aimed at people breaking the law or those
using legitimate tax
avoidance strategies.
While I'm not surprised they are going to make sure they can implement the best tax
avoidance strategies before going into the realm of retail, I would think that Amazon has plenty of ordinary business expenses that they can
use to deduct their taxable income.
One
strategy could be this:
use NATO to blockade these places, and tell them to end their tax -
avoidance - facilitation policies, or else.
The most common risk management
strategy used by individuals is called risk
avoidance, also know as the «hope and pray» approach.
I think part of why the government is so eager to crank minimum wage isn't only socialist ideology and desire to buy votes, it also pushes more Canadian wages into a taxable range, or even higher tax brackets, and low - income earners are unlikely to
use tax -
avoidance strategies (which means guaranteed additional income for the government.)
High perches are
used as part of
avoidance strategy and cats will gravitate towards high places when threatened.
Unfortunately, the company's policies are underwritten by Red Sands Insurance, which did not have any ethical policies for investments and received Ethical Consumer's worst ratings for both likely
use of tax
avoidance strategies and environmental reporting.
The company also scores Ethical Consumer's worst ratings for likely
use of tax
avoidance strategies, environmental reporting and supply chain management.
The other four of the Big Six received our worst rating for likely
use of tax
avoidance strategies, as did ENGIE.
She pointed to the enormous public costs associated with a lack of access to justice and suggested more efforts be made to calculate those costs and
use that information as a tool to convince governments to increase their investments in access to justice as a cost -
avoidance strategy.
The most common risk management
strategy used by individuals is called risk
avoidance, also know as the «hope and pray» approach.
BSA patients
used potentially maladaptive coping
strategies more frequently than BW patients at baseline (hopelessness / helplessness p = 0.005, fatalism p = 0.0005,
avoidance p = 0.005; the CIDQ denial statement «I do not really believe I have cancer» p = 0.0005).
Participants will be encouraged to consider how their reactions interplay with the core task of reducing
avoidance and
use of anger to gain interpersonal distance in clients who have
used violence as a protective
strategy.
In addition, it turned out that the most -
used strategy (task utility self - persuasion) is centered on the task while most of the least -
used strategies focused on the emotion (s) felt (i.e. emotion expression, negative self - talk, dysfunctional
avoidance).
Negative beliefs about the uncontrollability of depressed mood and anxiety were associated with higher
use of rumination and emotional
avoidance, and with a limited access to ER
strategies.
If this isn't enough evidence to convince you to adopt the open confrontation
strategy and avoid the
avoidance / withdrawal
strategy in your own breakups, consider this: people who had been dumped via open confrontation were less angry with their partners, whereas people who had been dumped
using avoidance / withdrawal were angrier with their ex-partners.
Conclusion: men and women infertile who
use disproportionally maladaptive coping
strategies such as escape /
avoidance are predisposed to anxiety and depression symptoms.
In addition, experiencing depressive symptoms is often associated with the
use of less effective and adaptive emotion regulation
strategies such as
avoidance, rumination and suppression (see for a review Aldao et al. 2010).
Our last research question examined the relationship between mindfulness and individuals» propensity to avoid conflict through the
use of either
avoidance or separation
strategies.
Our last research question examined whether mindfulness would positively or negatively predict individuals»
use of
avoidance or separation
strategies during conflict management.
The scale measures six
strategies discussed above: Compromise, Domination,
Avoidance, Separation, Submission, and Interactional Reactivity (a partner responding with aggressiveness and / or volatility toward the other)
using a 1 (disagree) to 5 (agree) scale.
This may in part explain why no significant findings emerged for the
use of separation or
avoidance strategies.
This consists in motivational reflection focused on the task and, as such, deals with unpleasant emotions in a «colder» way than the least
used strategies (i.e. emotion expression, negative self - talk, dysfunctional
avoidance and brief attentional relaxation).
Therefore, we hypothesized that experiential
avoidance would be associated with the
use of ER
strategies in individuals that have negative beliefs about emotions.
The central role of
avoidance in the development of regulatory
strategies is stated also in Borkovec» model (Borkovec et al., 2004), according to which worry is a regulatory
strategy used by individuals that tend to avoid intense emotions.
Such results were reported by Sivberg, who found that parents of children with autism
used more
strategies that included
avoidance and distancing, while the subject from the control group
used more problem focused
strategies (6).
The authors also found that,
using a global emotional and motivational scaffolding scale, mothers demonstrated improved co-regulation (i.e. higher ratings of global motivational and emotional scaffolding, higher frequency of more adaptive
strategies such as redirection of attention) over the course of the intervention, and that this was also associated with improvements in toddler emotion regulation (i.e. less expressed negativity and
avoidance).
In response to the open - ended question about gambling - related coping
strategies, the responses were coded under four major themes reflecting
strategies the participants
used to cope with family member's problem gambling: (1) financial control including taking over the finances; (2) supportive engagement including talking, rationalising, giving advice; (3) help - seeking including support for the gambler to attend counselling; and (4)
avoidance and denial such as keeping away from the gambler and doing their own thing.
Folkman and Lazarus (1985) demonstrated that people generally increase their
use of distraction /
avoidance coping
strategies in a low control situation.
Risk factors identified were trait neuroticism, self - criticism, vulnerability to depression,
use of
avoidance or escapist coping
strategies, situation appraisals involving helplessness and marital dissatisfaction.
Such persons try to minimize or avoid difficulties related to attachment experiences [42], becoming less sensitive to signs of rejection, being less comfortable getting close to others, and
using avoidance strategies to regulate attachment stress [17; 39], as shown by poorer memory of attachment related events [46 — 47] and less neural activation in the dACC and anterior insula [40].
The fact that three of the longitudinal studies that controlled for pre-existing distress levels reported
avoidance or escapist
strategy use to predict depression (Hynes et al., 1992) and other measures of distress (Litt et al., 1992; Terry and Hynes 1998) suggests reasonable confidence in this relationship.
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