Sentences with phrase «favour of tax»

One may ask whether national legislation, by which a national court is effectively prohibited to judge in certain long - lasting VAT disputes in favour of the tax authorities, complies with the Member State's obligation to collect VAT.

These were my reasons when commenting in favour of the tax system discussed on this blog quite some time ago.

The Treasury appears to be moving in favour of a tax on balance sheets rather than profits or bonuses — a view accepted by Mr Cable.

The Conservative cabinet minister Ken Clarke tells Stephen Sackur he is not in favour of tax cuts in the present economic climate.

At a fringe meeting at the Conservative conference in Bournemouth, two thirds of delegates also voted in favour of tax cuts.

Support remains rock solid with almost nine in 10 in favour of a tax funded, comprehensive service free at the point of use.

«One important policy question on which most economists appear to agree, however, is that there is very little to be said in favour of taxing corporations.1 Many would agree, for example, that the title of a recent paper — «The Corporate Income Tax and How to Get Rid of It» (Vickrey, 1991)-- adequately conveys the main message of the extensive economic literature on this subject.

Surveys have revealed than the majority of Australians would be in favour of taxing junk food if the money was spent on tackling childhood obesity.

Not exact matches

Residents of British Columbia recently voted 55 % in favour of scrapping the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST), introduced in July 2010.

Only 23 CEOs, or 20 %, were in favour of a carbon tax in the current poll.

He has made himself a highly visible nuisance to Liberal leadership, particularly by voting in favour of a Conservative motion in the House to extend consultations on the small - business tax reforms, and they kicked him off a couple of House committees as punishment.

A CNN poll in August found 63 % of Americans favoured higher taxes on businesses and rich citizens.

The EC said on Monday: «The Commission considers at this stage that the treatment endorsed in the two tax rulings may have resulted in tax benefits in favour of Inter IKEA Systems, which are not available to other companies subject to the same national taxation rules in the Netherlands.»

A key principle of good tax design is neutrality — the tax system should not favour one form of organizing economic activity over another.

One of the points Neils Veldhuis made was that he would also favour an increase in payroll taxes, ie CPP and EI.

Your student status will also have significant tax implications in your favour, as tuition fees greatly reduce the true cost of the EMBA program.

The proposals from the presidential campaign, reiterated last week by President - elect Donald Trump's choice for Treasury secretary, will massively favour the top 1 per cent of income earners, threaten an explosive rise in federal debt, complicate the tax code and do little if anything to spur growth.

Those surveyed indicated strongly that they favoured investing the surplus in areas of high priority, instead of putting the money away in the province's Heritage Fund, or providing refunds for every Albertan through tax rebates.

Despite the foreign buyer taxes imposed in the popular provinces of Ontario and British Columbia, Canada ranked as the fourth-most favoured investment destinations for Chinese buyers on Juwai.com in 2017.

By contrast to the so called middle - class tax cut which favours the more affluent, the CCB will have a positive impact upon the lamentably high rate of child poverty in Canada (which stood at 16.5 % in 2013), and will promote greater income equality among families with children.

The new Canada Child Benefit (CCB) unveiled in the 2016 federal Budget has been widely supported by progressives and anti poverty activists who have long favoured the expansion of income tested child tax credits.

The proceeds of the new top income tax rate will be recycled entirely into a proposed so - called middle class tax cut which in fact heavily favours the top 10 % and weill not even cover the cost of the middle class tax cut.

Unfortunately, during Christy Clark's tenure the government began to include tax credits to favoured groups, such as the B.C. film industry, when reporting the offsetting tax cuts in the carbon tax box of the annual Budget.

In the realm of domestic policy, it is also necessary to notice that Reagan reduces taxes in favour of the rich, raises the rate of interest and crushes the unique serious strike the one of the air controllers that mars his term of office.

A spokesman for the Robin Hood Tax campaign, an NGO campaigning for more stringent taxation of finance, says the announcement today of continued bonuses at RBS shows the government favours bankers over the people

Grounding the legitimacy of European institutions and policies in the citizens» interests would have far - ranging consequences, since it would require, among other things, a thorough democratization of European decision - making processes, different macro-economic policies that favour growth and employment, and taxes on high and capital income.

How can an MP vote in favour of a bedroom tax without actually knowing what he or she voted for?

However, in our view, this is not an ideal example as we favour Basic Income based on tax reform which would represent distribution of wealth from the very rich to the other members of the society, which is not the case with Alaska.)

And even more were in favour of increasing funding for the NHS by # 2.5 billion, partially through increased taxes on tobacco companies.

Initially, large majorities favoured the Home Mortgage Interest Deduction, a tax break for mortgage costs, but when some participants were given information about the unequal distribution of HMID benefits, opinion in this group became strongly opposed.

He has turned the debate on an iconic right of centre policy (inheritance tax), stymied plans for a 2007 election, prised open important new debates on tax complexity and green taxation and even managed to win the favours of the Prime Minister's erstwhile mistress, Miss Prudence.

After coming out in support of the graduate tax during his leadership campaign, Mr Miliband's favoured policy was instantly destabilised by outspoken comments from his shadow chancellor saying he still supported tuition fees, which he originally helped to bring in while in government.

The LD tax policy is revenue neutral overall, designed to rebalance the system in favour of the lowest paid, which is what it does.

Conservative and UKIP voters are in favour of abolishing inheritance tax and tend to support a reduction in the top tax rate; SNP, Green, Labour and interestingly Liberal Democrat voters take the opposite viewpoint.

Accordingly, they decisively favour a description of Plan A: «borrowing more will make matters worse... we have to bring the debt and the deficit under control even if it has some painful effects for the economy in the short term» over Plan B: «the government's spending cuts and tax rises are hurting the economy.

Governor of Abia Okezie Ikpeazu got a relief today as the Court of Appeal in Abuja ruled in his favour setting aside an earlier decision of a Federal High Court which found him guilty of filing false tax returns.

The Conservatives» commitment to a progressive tax system makes it «blindingly obvious» that the party is in favour of redistribution, David Cameron has said.

The RDA model of taking businesses money in taxes and then giving it back to a small number of favoured firms is fundamentally wasteful and distorting.

Labour should emphasise tax justice, a living wage, secure jobs, a resolution to the housing crisis, and shifting the economy from one rigged in favour of those at the top in favour of working people.

Guido Fawkes was amongst the first to suggest that this might be the most plausible outcome — the social and economic liberalism in both parties (the Cameroons and Orange Bookers) could be made to match (with some limits on Lib Dem tax policy recommendations), so the difficulties would be Europe (where they are utterly divergent), and Cameron's reluctance to negotiate on Trident renewal, criminal justice and sentencing, and electoral reform (the Tories are squarely in favour of First Past The Post).

Letters: It's comforting to believe that the country is in favour of universal welfare and high taxes.

This was actually a highly popular policy, and I suspect similar numbers would be in favour of attempts to clamp down on tax avoidance.

I also favour higher taxation of high value properties as long as all of the revenues are used to cut more economically harmful taxes.

The Macron and El - Khomri laws from the present government, that he inspired, give an idea of his future policies, as do his recent pronouncements in favour of reducing the current wealth taxes without committing to an increase in inheritance taxes.

Meanwhile, Ed Milliband has called for Labour to end its caution over tax, telling the Independent newspaper that the balance between public spending cuts and tax increases for the rich should be shifted in favour of public services.

You're not in favour of opportunity if you're going to put business taxes up.

Labour sources suggest that Malhotra's aim was to expose Tory «hypocrisy» - by highlighting how Osborne's favoured hardworking families are exactly the people who will suffer as a result of his # 4.5 bn cuts to tax credits.

He assured that «the tax, borrow and spend approach of the Mahama administration» will be abandoned, in favour of policies geared towards the reduction in the cost of doing business to help small - scale enterprises flourish and to make the Ghanaian economy become globally competitive.

Former Lib Dem Treasury spokesman, Stephen Williams, said: «You don't build a fairer society by using the tax system to favour one type of family over another.»

Mr Willetts and business secretary Vince Cable now appear favouring a graduate tax which could double the cost of going to university, the NUS fears.