Sentences with phrase «passed temporary increases»

For years, Congress has passed temporary increases to the exemption amount — often at the last minute — to mitigate the impact of the AMT.

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The immigration bill the Democrats nearly passed dramatically increased the number of temporary status residents and pliable labor immigrants, while cutting family based immigration.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- In an almost annual ritual, Congress has passed a last - minute package of temporary tax breaks, sparing millions of businesses and individuals from unwanted tax increases just weeks before start of filing season.

The wife who feels her femininity severely threatened or feels herself a failure because of her husband's temporary impotence, thus increases the tension and aggravates what might otherwise be a quickly passing phenomenon.

De Blasio has proposed changes including ending «vacancy decontrol,» which allows an apartment to become market - rate after the rent passes $ 2,500, and making rent increases from renovation costs temporary instead of permanent.

A temporary tax package passed in 2009 combined a sales tax increase with a surcharge on high - income taxpayers and profitable corporations to raise $ 1.3 billion.

Congress also passed temporary tax credits for homebuyers that increased housing demand and eased the fall of house prices in 2009 and 2010.