Sentences with phrase «by stealth taxes»

It's our dependency on fossil fuels which is driving energy bill prices up, aided along the way by the stealth taxes that have been applied to energy bills by successive governments (but by no government more than this one).

They are hit hardest by stealth taxes, the marriage penalty, interest rate rises and long hospital waiting lists.

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When inflation rears its ugly head, acting as a stealth tax by draining your purchasing power over time, there are some asset allocation portfolio models you can use to guard against its wealth destruction.

Transparency is the key to driving taxes down by exposing stealth taxes and leaving more money in the pockets of taxpayers, where it belongs.

And since much of the tax rises have been by stealth, the poorest are picking up a lot of the tab.

The national newspapers and twitter were riled up by the suggestion that there might be a stealth tax inserted into the Budget's pension plan, the sensitively titled «Granny Tax&raqutax inserted into the Budget's pension plan, the sensitively titled «Granny Tax&raquTax»:

He attacked the process by which the bill was considered — «a stealth attack on democracy» — and said the tax cut for New Yorkers making between $ 20,000 and $ 200,000 is barely a few dollars a week.

Eric Pickles, communities shadow secretary, said: «I fear that the Trojan Horse of the Lee Valley authority could be used as cover for yet another stealth rise in council tax by Labour.

I am pleased that this proposed agreement realizes long - held Senate Republican priorities like cutting the corporate franchise tax for manufacturers, reducing the job - killing MTA payroll tax for small businesses, eliminating New York's stealth tax by indexing tax brackets and deductions, and building our reserves, along with providing additional flood relief to support job growth in devastated communities.

The New Labour way is to redistribute by stealth, and Blair and Brown have been good at it, without recourse to noticeably more progressive taxes on income.

Labour MP for Gateshead, Ian Mearns, has criticised Eric Pickles» accusation that English councils who raise a «stealth tax» by 1.99 % in a bid to avoid the Government's 2 % referendum threshold are «democracy dodgers».

Whereas in the UK, the coalition just announced a # 1,000,000,000 stealth tax on high energy using businesses, forcing them to pay by the tonne of CO2.

Inflation is a stealth tax on fictitious gains created by reducing the purchasing power of the currency.