Sentences with phrase «tax policy debate»

Aside from being an interesting tax policy debate (if you like that kind of thing), the controversy around the mortgage interest tax deduction could have big practical implications.

This is a good strong step towards a better deficit reduction and tax policy debate in general and a clearer policy choice going before the electorate at the next election.

What this means is that there is important political slippage between the tax policy debate in Washington and the way it is heard by many Americans.

The problem is that for too long, corporations have entirely dominated tax policy debates, according to Dan Bucks, former director of revenue Montana, who advocates for corporate tax accountability measures.

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I predict that as debates on tax policy unfold there will be many serious Republican economists who endorse parts of the Trump plan.

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.

With Hillary Clinton's tax proposals to encourage longer - term investing, the debate over whether American business is too fixated on the short term has moved from the dimly lit offices of earnest policy wonks into the klieg lights of U.S. primary season.

Canada's coming national price on carbon adds further fuel to the debate, as some will be looking for Canadian industries affected by the carbon price to get protections, maybe even in the form of a carbon tax applied at the border on goods coming from places in the U.S. where there is no such policy.

«That's why the public policy debate in the U.S. has moved away from taxes and bans and onto real solutions.»

That's why the public policy debate has largely moved on from taxes and bans.

Ms Loane said her mandate would include establishing a platform for Australia to develop a retirement outcomes policy, ensuring financial services had a «voice of influence» in the debate on tax and federation white papers, and building the right regulatory architecture so Australia could develop a significant presence in Asia.

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Our next piece took a look at this week's Hollyrood election debate and and suggested that the SNP's income tax policies show that the New Labour project lives on in Scotland.

Former Governor Eliot Spitzer was part of a 6 person panel debating tax policy last night in Syracuse University.

The five Republican candidates for governor met Thursday for one of the last televised debates before the primary, clashing over tax policy, immigration...

Against the backdrop of a parliamentary debate on the «bedroom tax,» David Cameron announced this week that his policy of downsizing the state isn't going to stop when the economic crisis is over.

In the major debates of the past two or three years, the Orange Book tendency has whittled away at broadly centre - left policies on, for example, public spending, income - tax rates and the role of local government in education.

A recent research project by Kayte Lawton and myself for the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), funded by the Nuffield Foundation, attempts to inform debate by providing a critical assessment of the options for reforming wealth taxes in the UK.

Key policy - makers and high profile journalists will be joining the CIOT and the Institute for Fiscal Studies at the main party conferences this autumn for a series of debates on the future of the tax system.

Don Thanks for these interesting comments I think you were a bit warmer Perhaps one major lesson of these debates is that there seems to have been a significant under - supply on the blogosphere (i) detailed tax policy and distributional arguments.

Recent policy debate on the mansion tax, and a «temporary wealth tax» also suggests that this is an opportune time to consider wealth inequalities and what might be done about them.

He has turned the debate on an iconic right of centre policy (inheritance tax), stymied plans for a 2007 election, prised open important new debates on tax complexity and green taxation and even managed to win the favours of the Prime Minister's erstwhile mistress, Miss Prudence.

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At best Fallon's intervention today will have moved on the debate from Labour's popular non-dom tax policy announcement.

«Until now, the debate has focused almost exclusively on who will pay what, when they will pay it and whether they will be better or worse off as a result of the Scottish Government's new income tax policy.

The five Republican candidates for governor met Thursday for one of the last televised debates before the primary, clashing over tax policy, immigration proposals and gun rights.

The Fabian Society would be delighted to offer Tim Worstall a platform to debate with the Robin Hood tax campaigners on this important public policy debate.

For anti-poverty organizations, a key policy debate has been extending an expiring tax rate on millionaires as well as increasing taxes on even wealthier people who make more than $ 5 million.

Cuomo has worked well with the Republicans, and will have a much easier time threading a coming debate over state income tax policy if they are around to neutralize liberal, union - backed Democrats who dominate the state Assembly.

Much more relevant to most people will be the debate that same afternoon brought forward by John Hemming MP, about the charging of council tax to benefit claimants, and the debate the following day about the government policy on horse meat in food.

E.J. McMahon, research director for Empire Center for Public Policy, said he believes the debate over the millionaires» tax has gained the most attention out of the executive budget.

David Hall - Matthews, the chairman of the left - leaning grassroots grouping within the Liberal Democrats, the Social Liberal Forum, summed up the equality debate, attacking the «stinking rich» in the House of Lords and said wealth taxes were now at the heart of Lib Dem policy.

This is despite the policy being announced in September 2008, and there being several Parliamentary debates on council tax since.

The Liberal Democrats were working on a detailed policy paper on the party's view on tax in the round, which would be debated at the 2013 LibDem conference.

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Coke is spending millions of dollars here and has a marketing PR budget that researchers don't have so they can take the findings and share them and use them to try to fight policy and all these laws that are being debated about taxing soda.

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.

The negative income tax experiments were designed to influence political debate on income support policy in at least two ways.

AEI's Rick Hess and Brendan Bell recently slammed mainstream media outlets for biased coverage of the Higher Education Act provisions in the recent tax bill: «If professional journalists can't manage to [cover serious policy debates] when it comes to education, it's hard to imagine how they can do it on the most important and polarizing issues of the day.»

Well, there's a lot of dorky debate in the personal - finance world, but the basic reasons are taxes and tax policy: Assuming your career goes well, you'll be in a higher tax bracket when you retire, meaning that you'd have to pay more taxes with a 401 (k).

But switching gears completely, I have noticed that those who demand «both sides» on AGW policy debates, almost always reject the presentation of any other side of issues when it comes to going to war, torture to get the truth, and tax cuts being good policy.

Why can we now debate the policy options for a further reduction in public harm, such as plain packaging or tax increases?

Second, the study made no effort to isolate the amount these 91 Conspirators spent to engage climate science issues, even though most of the diverse groups regularly engaged other policy debates (welfare, telecom regulation, agricultural policy, tax rates, ad infinitum).

Most of the diverse groups regularly engaged other policy debates (welfare, telecom regulation, agricultural policy, tax rates, etc.), and some groups barely conducted any advocacy.

I am very familiar with policies related to carbon taxes and rebates, having worked on Capitol Hill during the congressional debate of similar federal policy almost a decade ago.

Drawing on case studies of past environmental debates such as those over acid rain and ozone depletion, science policy experts Roger Pielke Jr. and Daniel Sarewitz argue that once next generation technologies are available that make meaningful action on climate change lower - cost, then much of the argument politically over scientific uncertainty is likely to diminish.26 Similarly, research by Yale University's Dan Kahan and colleagues suggest that building political consensus on climate change will depend heavily on advocates for action calling attention to a diverse mix of options, with some actions such as tax incentives for nuclear energy, government support for clean energy research, or actions to protect cities and communities against climate risks, more likely to gain support from both Democrats and Republicans.

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.

These and other issues are discussed in the Managing Director's Statement on the Role of the Fund in Addressing Climate Change, a recent Staff Discussion Note and IMF books Fiscal Policy to Mitigate Climate Change: A Guide for Policymakers and Implementing a US Carbon Tax: Challenges and Debates.

During a debate about whether to implement a cap - and - trade policy or a carbon tax, Dan Lashof of NRDC, proponent of a cap (though an awfully mild proponent: «So I'm supposed to be here as a die - hard believer in cap - and - trade...»), had but one or two lone supporters in the large audience.

Notably, there is still some debate about whether a policyowner who lives to see his / her life insurance policy «mature» at age 100 could choose to keep the funds invested with the insurance company, and not be forced to face the tax consequences (presuming he / she didn't actually need the money anyway).