Sentences with phrase «tax efficiency becomes»

But once the time comes to start tapping into your nest egg, tax efficiency becomes far more complicated, experts say.

Not exact matches

Your turn, geothermal (p. 100 and p. 6, 19 — 21 of the budget's tax measures document): Ottawa provides a pair of tax breaks to businesses that invest in clean energy and efficiency, and it's become a budget tradition for the Finance Minister to add technologies to the list each year.

Deciding what assets to place in which account becomes important when you have multiple accounts and want to maximize your tax efficiency.

However, if some (or many) of these efforts have some smoke - and - mirror aspect to them, or if they become the seemingly easy «solution du jour» and allow us to think that we can avoid larger solutions (fuel efficiency standards; carbon tax, or firm carbon cap combined with a robust and regulated carbon credit trading mechanism; substantial investments in new energy technologies; energy conservation; etc.), their net impact can be more damaging than beneficial.

Reduce dependency on (imported) fossil fuels (balance of payments, reliance on potentially unfriendly or unstable nations as suppliers, high cost at the pump, all problems as seen from US viewpoint): — encourage nuclear power generation (cut red tape)-- encourage energy savings and improved efficiency projects (tax breaks)-- encourage basic research into new (non fossil fuel) resources (subsidies)-- encourage imports from friendly neighbor, Canada (Keystone pipeline)-- encourage local oil and gas exploration («drill, baby, drill»)-- encourage «clean coal» projects (tax incentives)-- set goal to become energy independent within ten years

If you try to link it to the issue of AGW in order to reduce consumption of oil and thereby reduce emission of CO2 it becomes an issue of the «efficiency of the proposed tax system»; both in terms of collection of revenues and in achieving the stated goal of reducing emissions of CO2.

A carbon tax would allow energy efficiencies to become cost effective faster, a carbon tax would cause the utilities to use less carbon fuels in the electrical grid and a carbon tax would promote fuel switching faster.

Further, the LCFS is less efficient than a carbon tax, but when combined with a price ceiling, the policy approaches the efficiency of a carbon tax as the LCFS policy become more stringent.

Again, for the power of leverage and the tax free nature of death benefits of life insurance, there are several ways a life insurance policy becomes a solution to long term efficiency needs.