Sentences with phrase «tax policy approach»

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The unpredictability of the Trump administration in the U.S. may further encourage the Canadian government to take a more measured approach to tax policy.

The U.S. has taken a number of policy approaches aimed at increasing the country's innovation output, from boosting STEM education programs to offering tax incentives on R&D research.

Such approaches could be designed to be revenue - neutral over the business cycle; they also could avoid past debates over fiscal stimulus by separating decisions on countercyclical policy from longer - run decisions about the appropriate role of the government and tax system.

We should all hope the Trump administration follows Reagan's approach on both tax policy principles and a commitment to bipartisan negotiation.

Dynamic analysis: An approach to calculating how a tax proposal would affect the economy in the short and long run by determining the policy's macroeconomic effects.

Regardless of the approach taken, I agree with Blackman and Stark in that the ability of a state to capture federal tax dollars via creative state tax credit initiatives is almost certainly bad tax policy when viewed from the national perspective.

The creators of the SAFT model argue that the SAFT approach is very beneficial for alleviating many securities, investor protection, consumer protection, money transmitter, and tax law and policy concerns.

It has permitted the worthy goals of reducing taxes and limiting growth in the size of government to crowd from the domestic policy agenda the creative reflection that will obviously be needed to formulate a new, non-welfare-oriented approach to this problem.

question by Sinsinawa Dominican Sister Erica Jordan, who not - so - subtly suggested that Ryan's approach to healthcare reform, tax reform, and welfare reform was in conflict with the Church's social teaching, the very Catholic Speaker replied that he completely agreed with Sister Erica that God is «always on the side of the poor and dispossessed»; the real question was, how do public officials, who are not God, create public policies that empower the poor and dispossessed to be not - poor and not - dispossessed?

Media Statement 22 June, 2016 Soft drink tax an ineffective solution to obesity in Australia Responding to the announcement from the Australian Greens leader Richard Di Natale regarding a policy proposal for the introduction of a tax on soft drinks, Australian Beverages Council CEO, Geoff Parker said; «We are disappointed by the extremely simplistic approach -LSB-...]

Responding to research from the Consumers Health Forum, the Heart Foundation, the Obesity Policy Coalition and the Public Health Association of Australia, the Council's CEO Geoff Parker said better education around diet and lifestyle, not taxes, is a far better and more commonsense approach for a healthier country.

That «coalition» approach is underpinned by the 97 - 01 policy agenda of new deal on jobs and windfall tax, minimum wage, devolution and FoI, public services, social chapter and pro-EU, feminisation of the PLP through shortlists, alongside macroecon stability, aversion to tax rises spoke to a party coalition; the post-01 agenda was arguably rather narrower, with new labour seeming to be about a particular method of public service reform.

Establish clear guiding principles and priorities for tax policy Early statement in a new Parliament to spell out priorities for and approach to tax system 3.

Arthur Laffer, member of Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board from 1981 - 89 and powerful advocate of supply - side economics, constructed the «Laffer Curve» to support the trickle - down approach of the Reagan (and Bush) tax cuts.

Lord Ashcroft's findings suggest that I may have over-estimated support for classic Conservative approaches to tax, schools and families policy - but that a tough immigration policy isn't in itself a problem.

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.

«Strong, conservative fiscal policies of cutting spending and limiting our debt have created a strong financial foundation that allows us to invest in our community and grow our tax base,» said Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr. «The three national credit agencies have once again confirmed our conservative approach by maintaining our stellar credit ratings.»

The Prime Minister is pleased to have political cover for keeping the 50p top rate of tax, abandoning the «prison works» approach to crime, avoiding a return to grammar schools and retaining the ring - fence on aid — all policies that infuriate the rightwingers.

Rep. Elise StefanikElise Marie StefanikYoung GOP lawmakers push for fresh approach GOP lawmakers back discharge petition to force immigration votes House Republicans reserve millions in early air time MORE (R - N.Y.) is calling on Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittHillicon Valley: Facebook, Google struggle to block terrorist content Cambridge Analytica declares bankruptcy in US Company exposed phone location data Apple starts paying back taxes to Ireland Overnight Energy: Pruitt taps man behind «lock her up» chant for EPA office Watchdog to review EPA email policies Three Republicans join climate caucus Six steps Pruitt must take on his legal defense fund to avoid another scandal MORE to resign.

Market - based policies such as cap - and - trade programs and carbon taxes offer the most cost - effective approach, and I strongly support such policies.

It is disappointing to see how quickly many U.S. policy makers have settled on the cap - and - trade approach without permitting a proper debate to occur on the use of taxes.

«Our approach is a different way to think about cigarette taxes,» says senior author Matthew M. Davis, M.D., M.A.P.P., professor of Pediatrics at U-M's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital and who is with U-M's schools of public health and public policy and the U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovpolicy and the U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy and InnovPolicy and Innovation.

From wide - ranging open public school enrollment policies, 6 to magnet and charter schools, 7 to a flourishing scholarship tax - credit program that brings private schools into the parents» mix of options, 8 Arizona is eliminating the «one - size - fits - all» approach to public education that currently dominates America's public education system.

Even with permanent life insurance, the problem with the approach of cancelling one policy and starting a new one with a different life insurance company may cause the owner of the policy to pay penalties and taxes that would otherwise have been avoided.

In markets where every policy, every tax and every decision has multiple targets, a more thoughtful approach is probably a better approach.

Prior to this new policy, fingerprint data was not recorded, as there was no standardized national approach for the fingerprinting of those charged with tax evasion.»

This policy change is to ensure that CRA has a standardized national approach for the fingerprinting of those charged with tax evasion.

I'm glad to see Wei and Monson forging ahead on climate and energy analysis and action despite the deep dysfunction in Washington, which shows signs of hobbling any approach, whether focused on traditional tools like tax policies and pollution regulation or a direct push on energy innovation.

[Andy Revkin — Mr. Gore is sticking with his preference for taxing sources of emissions and limiting costs for citizens that bears no resemblance to «cap and trade» bills like those that have faltered in Congress of late and shares some of the architecture, if not details, of the «cap and dividend» approach of Peter Barnes and a similar proposal from James Hansen, the NASA climate scientist who has moved far into the policy realm lately.]

Despite the potential cost - effectiveness of market - based policy instruments, such as pollution taxes and tradable permits, conventional approaches — including design and uniform performance standards — have been the mainstay of U.S. environmental policy since before the first Earth Day in 1970.

Vehicle fuel economy report identifies regulations and tax policy priority pathways to reducing consumption Varied approaches around the world have led to uneven technology deployment, limiting global gains 19 May 2016

But in this case, given the risk - management challenges we face and the policy alternatives under consideration, it is our judgment that a carbon tax is a preferred course of public policy action versus cap and trade approaches.»

The platform (p. 65) touts the 2005 Project Green as «an integrated approach to sustainable development that uses the full range of policy instruments — market mechanisms, tax measures, and incentives for businesses and consumers.»

• Flexible approaches to motivate achieving CO2 emission limits that may vary by economic sector, and could include, depending on the sector, market - based incentives; governmental loan guarantees; investment tax credits; performance standards; tax reform; incentives for technology research, development and deployment; and other appropriate policy tools.

There is some real interest in this approach, mainly from academics, and there is also what I would characterize as «strategic interest,» principally from those who recognize that once the focus is on carbon taxes rather than other instruments, political debates will inevitably result in less ambitious targets or, in fact, no policy at all.

Is there research to suggest that policies similar to your fee - bate and R&D approach would be as efficient or more efficient than a carbon tax with the revenue reducing other distortionary taxes?

Captdallas — I've consistently said I oppose a «Federal» Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard (an example of Liberal top / down, command / control, one - size - fits - all policy approaches like carbon taxes and cap and trade which I also have been clear I oppose).

A radically different approach is to use harmonized prices, fees, or taxes as a method of coordinating policies among countries.

Foreign policy experts say the Keystone could have been used to forge a grand, cross-border bargain to jointly address climate change — a bargaining chip toward agreements on carbon taxes, cap - and - trade regimes, or other comprehensive approaches.

RFF experts Arthur G. Fraas and Nathan Richardson examined the questions associated with implementing a carbon tax versus regulating emissions under the Clean Air Act, looking at issues including scope, cost - effectiveness, ability to generate revenue, and the impact on international climate negotiations for either policy approach — finding that «there's no easy answer to whether regulation or a carbon price is the better instrument.»

Cap and trade, once a cornerstone national energy policy among Democrats and moderate Republicans, has become a target of conservatives, who call it cap and tax and say it's emblematic of the Obama administration's «big government» approach.

This is a structural, political and policy problem for the Gillard government as it approaches Carbon Tax Day, July 1 - and one that it appears powerless to address.

This speech in fact serves as a preview of an upcoming report by my colleagues and I that takes this three pillar approach to analyze the clean energy policies of Germany, Spain and China, and makes the case that these countries are taking a comprehensive approach towards developing their clean energy industries, whereas all the United States has is a series of patchy and heterogeneous state action (e.g. state renewable energy standards) or federal action that is limited in duration (e.g. short - term renewable energy tax credits, or one - time green stimulus spending).

Just days before the election of Donald Trump as president, ExxonMobil reiterated its claim to support a revenue neutral carbon tax as the «best option» for achieving its preferred policy approach to addressing climate change.

The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) budget blueprint takes a similar approach to CAP, using carbon pricing to meet the Waxman - Markey targets with «half of the revenue from proposed carbon pricing earmarked for energy rebates and tax credits for low - and moderate - income populations» to «fully offset the higher cost of energy for the lowest 60 % of earners.»

Perhaps a better approach would be to look for synergies between near and long term measures, e.g. land use policies that put people out of harm's way and lower transport energy intensity, or recycling carbon tax revenue into disease prevention.

As far as I know, Pigovian taxes are still a topic in first year college economic courses, covered as part of «market failures» and economic policy approaches, etc..

It is interesting to me that the remediation approaches currently being considered for climate change can be classified into two categories: 1) Geoengineering — approaches ranging from fertilizing the oceans to detonation of many nukes 2) Econo - engineering (a term I just coined)-- which looks at policy / fiscal changes ranging from cap and trade, carbon taxes, etc. to forcing everybody to live like the Amish.

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.

Americans for Affordable Products (AAP) will run a national campaign to engage consumers and show lawmakers that pursuing tax policy that will result in higher costs for their customers on everyday items including food, gas and clothing is the wrong approach.