Sentences with phrase «low marginal»

Many practice areas have low marginal costs — once you've drawn up a prospectus for one client, you're 70 % of the way to drawing one up for the next one.

And it may only have begun: recall the NYT review of Free that noted: it can be extremely hard to survive in a business with high fixed costs, low marginal costs and relatively easy entry.

What this all comes down to is this: if your main source of value is your ability to craft a legal document — if you rely heavily on products with a very low marginal cost — you could be in serious trouble.

The same «low marginal cost» economics that permit TurboTax to be offered at relatively low prices apply here too.

Once legal knowledge is digitized and integrated with intelligent systems, they expect it to be applied repeatedly to many people's problems with very low marginal costs.

As Mike has reported before, these sudden drops in electricity prices offer renewables an advantage because solar and wind have very low marginal costs in terms of on - going generation of energy.

«Add all those up,» said van Welie, «and you see very low marginal cost and very low prices.»

In recent years, expanded supply of low cost natural gas, increased energy efficiency, growing market penetration of renewable electricity sources, and substantial reserve margins have contributed to low prices reflecting low marginal costs in wholesale energy and capacity markets.

On September 14, 2017, academics, policy makers, representatives of Independent System Operators / Regional Transmission Organizations and other stakeholders engaged in a discussion of the future of electricity markets over the next two decades, with an emphasis on the potential for high penetrations of zero and low marginal cost generation, and various options for organizing wholesale electricity transactions in the face of rapid technological change.

This paper explores four paradigms for the future of the electricity sector in a low marginal cost world, including traditional cost of service, energy - only power markets, energy plus capacity payment mechanisms, and new relationships between providers and consumers on an energy platform.

However, in certain situations the tax rate applied to the capital gain may be higher than the rate of tax saving because of initial deductions such as for investors who have a low marginal tax rate while they make deductions but a high marginal rate in the year the capital gain is realised.

If a technology aids one person to serve many at low marginal costs, it will aid inequality, unless the technology is broadly shared and used.

A 25 year old with a low marginal tax rate and little wealth should probably not have his entire investment portfolio invested in municipal bonds, even if it reduces his taxes.

Until then, the misguided plans of the Fed will continue to do little, as businesses look at the low marginal efficiency of capital, and shrink their operations.

For example, author / advisor Larry Swedroe has often written that he has a «low marginal utility of wealth» (marginal utility being the additional happiness you would get from more of the item in question), meaning that he has little to gain from a high - risk portfolio.

Those with lower incomes benefit more from a Roth IRA since they're already able to pay a low marginal tax rate and won't be taxed on their IRA money in the future, either.

That's where the scaling and low marginal cost come in.

If you are in a low marginal tax rate, consider using a TFSA rather than an RRSP if you believe you will ultimately be in a higher tax bracket.

It is perceived as a very scalable business because corporate clients can be added easily with a low marginal cost.

One advantage we have at the moment is that acceptable production values are low and most ebooks are simply facsimiles of p - books, cheaply produced at a low marginal cost.

We've always said that the ideal efficient economy is one in which you sell at low marginal costs — but neither Karl Marx nor pioneering economist Adam Smith anticipated that these would fall to zero or near zero.

«People who are in work on low marginal incomes are paying quite significant sums in tax to help people who are in really difficult circumstances through the benefit system,» said the Work and Pensions Secretary, «and we all applaud that, that's what we should do.

The study reports a consensus that low marginal tax rates increase incentives to bring more income under taxation.

In addition, supply - side effects from lower marginal rates will be small because statutory rate cuts are small (or in some cases nonexistent).»

Clinton's husband presided over a bipartisan tax cut in 1997 that lowered the marginal rate for the middle class, and raised the capital gains tax.

In other words, Alberta now has the lowest marginal tax rate for high - income earners in North America — even lower than U.S. states with no state income tax at all.

«To provide a greater reward for those who make the sacrifices needed to move ahead, the President's tax cut plan will substantially lower the marginal tax rate for low - income parents,» Bush's team explained at the time.

Lower marginal rates won't create opportunity in impoverished rural towns, but universal access to broadband would.

At the high end, the tax loss is estimated at $ 1.7 - billion, which assumes 50 per cent of the salary income was not earned for real work performed, and the family member had a 15 - per - cent - lower marginal tax rate than the company owner.

TRA86 (Tax Reform Act of 1986): Revenue - neutral legislation passed in 1986 that simplified the tax code, lowered marginal tax rates, and closed corporate loopholes.

To the extent that the Republicans are the party of ever lower marginal tax rates on high earners and ever lower wages for everybody else, they deserve to be marginalized.

ENDS Notes for editors In 2018/19, an employee earning between # 43,430 and # 46,350 per year will pay a marginal rate of tax of 53 % (income tax and national insurance) compared with a lower marginal rate of 43 % for an employee earning between # 46,351 and # 100,000.

The effect will be to increase taxes on some residents, although other provisions of the tax bill — like lowering marginal rates — could offset that.

Plants with the lowest marginal cost — that is, those that can produce additional electricity most cheaply — are selected first by the market.

As opposed to traditional pencil - and - paper assessments, the online portal delivers assessments with greater ease and lower marginal costs.

In short, the argument that ebook versions of a novel should cost way less than paperback novels due to a lower marginal cost of production simply doesn't match the actual numbers.

Clearly the expectation that ebooks should cost a lot less than paper copies of the books because of lower marginal costs of production doesn't match the reality that marginal cost of production really IS marginal even for paper books.

Individuals who make the lowest amount of income are placed into the lowest marginal tax rate bracket, while higher earning individuals are placed into higher marginal rate tax brackets.

Under previous tax law, a 0 % long - term capital gains tax rate applied to individuals in the two lowest marginal tax brackets, a 15 % rate applied to the next four, and a 20 % capital gains tax rate applied to the top tax bracket.

One of the common misconceptions of RRSPs is that you have to be in a lower marginal tax bracket in retirement than when you made the contribution.

In reality they will probably be in a lower marginal tax bracket which means they save even more tax.

The income earned below that level is taxed at the lower marginal rate — the higher marginal tax rate does not get applied all the way back to the first dollar of income earned.

If you make a RRSP contribution, you will receive a tax return of 38 % of this amount (unless you make a big contribution and you hit a lower marginal tax rate).

A: If you are expecting two rather large capital gains on both properties I would recommend spacing the transactions out over two years in order to lower your marginal tax rate.

When you finally withdraw the money, you'll have to pay tax, but for most Canadians they'll end up paying less tax because their income in retirement is less than during their working years, putting them in a lower marginal tax bracket.

The spouse with the higher income contributes to them and when the spouse with the lower income withdraws the money, it's taxed at a lower marginal rate.

Second, by putting the money into a Roth IRA at the very beginning of your working life you have paid income tax on it at what should be the lowest marginal rate you are ever likely to see.

You have probably heard about some of the major changes that take effect beginning in 2018 — a big cut to the corporate tax rate, lower marginal rates across the board, and a larger standard deduction.

In other words, the clients will have actually destroyed long - term wealth by trying to dodge higher future tax burdens, not realizing that those future tax burdens could come with lower marginal rates.

Advisers need to help retirees with a «drawdown strategy,» he said and suggested they urge them to «fill up lower marginal tax brackets such as a Roth plan or a 401 (k) before their brokerage accounts.