«We need to put a price on carbon to accelerate these market trends,» Gore told the Chicago Tribune, referring to
a proposed federal cap - and - trade system that would penalize companies that exceeded their carbon - emission limits.
Not exact matches
On more than one occasion, President Barack Obama has
proposed capping the tax benefit, on the grounds that too much of the $ 30 billion or so a year in foregone
federal taxes ends up in wealthy investors» pockets.
The governor
proposes some ridiculous, unworkable, flawed schemes to convert
federal taxes into state taxes, make school taxes into charitable contributions and otherwise get around the $ 10,000
cap on the SALT deduction.
Employers will also be given the option to shift to a payroll tax, a measure
proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo as a workaround to the new
federal cap on state and local tax deductions.
Cuomo last week
proposed replacing the state's personal income tax with a payroll tax as a response to the
federal tax law
capping state and local tax deductions at $ 10,000.
Republican Rep. John Faso released a letter Wednesday sent to the tax policy office at the U.S. Department of Treasury that seeks to clarify whether Gov. Andrew Cuomo's
proposed workarounds for a $ 10,000
cap on state and local tax deductions are legal under
federal law.
Cuomo has
proposed far more sweeping changes to the state's tax code that he says are needed to soften the blow of the new
federal tax law, which will raise the
federal taxes of many New Yorkers by
capping a deduction for state and local taxes at $ 10,000.
Cuomo's
proposed changes come after
federal tax law
capped state and local income tax deductions.
If the president or Congress wanted to
cap a
federal tax credit at $ 20 billion — the amount Trump
proposed using to support school choice during his campaign — the Florida program also shows how such a
cap could be implemented.
It probably won't be long before the
Federal Reserve reaches a decision concerning a
proposed cap on interchange fees.
The 2010 Budget
proposes investing $ 150 billion over 10 years from
cap - and - trade revenues in clean energy technologies because the Administration believes that a sustained commitment on that scale is needed not only to make the multi-year
federal investments needed to bring new technologies to commercialization but also to send a signal to private companies that the
federal government is investing for the long term.
A
federal carbon
cap has not been
proposed since The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, which passed the House but not the Senate.
Simpson, a former Republican senator from Wyoming, and Bowles, a White House chief of staff under President Clinton,
proposed addressing the
federal government's shortfall by — among other things — converting the mortgage interest deduction to a 12 percent nonrefundable tax credit,
capping the mortgage amount at $ 500,000, and eliminating credits for second residences and home equity.
The warning, expressed during NAR's
Federal Taxation Committee Wednesday, may come as a surprise to many members, because Camp hasn't directly
proposed significant changes to the mortgage interest deduction itself, aside from halving the
cap to $ 500,000.