Sentences with phrase «tax policy incentives»

His main point: it looks like interest - group politics, and thus gives license for bad liberal and statist - Republican tax policy incentives when the political winds shift.

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And though policy discussions often center around tax incentives and streamlining, any entrepreneur will almost certainly disagree.

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.

He cited other reasons Americans are enthusiastic about Canada's startup scene, including strong tax incentives and immigration policies that «allow talented people globally to come to Canada.»

That's led to a slew of calls for government intervention and new policies designed to juice startup activity: savings accounts to finance new companies; immigrant entrepreneurial visas; programs to facilitate startups» access to capital; and expanded tax incentives for new businesses.

Impact on oil and gas production: compared to a carbon tax, Alberta's policy offers emitters less of an incentive to reduce production in order to cut GHGs, notes Leach: «assuming that the facility reduced production by 10 percent, and that emissions decreased proportionately (a simplifying assumption), the facility's emissions intensity would not change, so its carbon liability per barrel of oil produced would also remain constant.»

Such a incentive to borrow may be undesirable, which is why the 2005 Tax Reform Panel recommended accompanying full expensing with the elimination of the interest deduction (Howard Gleckman of the Tax Policy Center recently explained this point in more detail).

Let me briefly mention a few steps that could be taken to increase the economy's potential over time — immigration policies that attract workers with scarce skills to the United States; education policies and job retraining programs that build and replenish human capital; spending on infrastructure to remove bottlenecks; tax simplification and the elimination of tax policies that distort investment and saving decisions; regulatory policies that are attentive to costs and benefits and that emphasize getting the incentives right.

Although the Tax Policy Center did not explore that question, it did note that higher marginal tax rates reduce «incentives to work, save and invest.&raqTax Policy Center did not explore that question, it did note that higher marginal tax rates reduce «incentives to work, save and invest.&raqtax rates reduce «incentives to work, save and invest.»

The legislation thus offers corporations «a perverse incentive» to shift assembly lines abroad, said Steve Rosenthal of the Tax Policy Center.

At any rate, it's an economic view of liberty as a means that brings with it a political commitment to an activist, interventionist tax policy of incentives and disincentives.

Most of the freer Asian countries at one time or another adopted policies penalizing large families or offering incentives to small families, whether through the tax code or through benefits like preferential housing and jobs.

The Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic prepared a fact sheet regarding tax incentives for food donation.

This toolkit, to be released in 2016, will bring together lessons from our research and policy work in date labeling, tax incentives, liability protections, as well as other food waste policies, to provide policy makers with a comprehensive menu of policy options.

B Lab drives systemic change through three interrelated initiatives: 1) building a community of Certified B Corporations to make it easier for all of us to tell the difference between «good companies» and just good marketing; 2) accelerating the growth of the impact investing asset class through use of B Lab's GIIRS impact rating system by institutional investors; and 3) promoting supportive public policies, including creation of a new corporate form and tax, procurement, and investment incentives for sustainable business.

In the United States of America, people back candidates who will initiate policies — lower taxes, or embark on healthcare reforms or other programmes that will further free enterprise, in Nigeria everyone wants lucrative appointments and not incentives for manufacturing, because they have never manufactured and have no plans of manufacturing anything in their life.

In addition to the tax incentive programs often related to the IDA, I continue to advocate for new policies for local businesses to help them expand and thrive here in Erie County.

It is also used for its secondary effects: punitive taxation, taxation used as an incentive (e.g. protectionist tariffs, environmental taxes to reduce pollution, sin taxes on gambling or drugs, financial transaction taxes, Pigovian taxes), foreign policy (tariffs), wealth redistribution (progressive taxation, negative income tax).

He argued that such a policy would provide huge gains to the exchequer by (over time) removing the cost of both means - tested benefits and tax incentives for pensions.

Buffalo, NY — The Erie County Industrial Development Agency's Board of Directors approved the first step Wednesday in implementing a restrictive new policy that limits tax incentives on market - rate senior housing.

The Erie County Industrial Development Agency has approved a mandate requiring any company that receives tax breaks or incentives must pay female employees equal rates as their male counterparts, if both are doing the same job or holding the same position.While the 15 ECIDA directors who were at the meeting support the pay equity policy, questions were raised about how it may be enforced.

Buffalo, NY — The Erie County Industrial Development Agency's Board of Directors approved a new policy narrowing the scope of broader State law that allows IDA's to offer tax incentives to developers for market rate senior housing projects.

Commisso said the administration must look at its own policies that exacerbate the issue, like the trash fee targeting renters, providing tax incentives for luxury housing and eliminating recreation programs for youth.

This policy allows the ECIDA to offer tax incentives for rehabilitating buildings that have been empty for three years or more and are at least 20 years old.

The policy, approved by a 12 - 3 ECIDA board vote, seeks to reinforce existing equal pay law and ensure that vendors seeking tax incentives pay their male and female employees equally for equal work.

At a time of dire fiscal shortages, and suggested cuts to education and healthcare, it is critical to reform the system which creates the perverse incentives for politicians to pass such inequitable tax policies.

Changes in housing policies and adoption of tax incentives (485a) have accelerated development and made it more attractive than ever to live in Oneida County.

The Policy Loftness and others recommend that the federal government encourage efficiency through tax incentives and stricter standards for appliances, vehicles, and buildings to meet the goals of the American Clean Energy and Security Act.

Such a review would holistically coordinate the multiplicity of ways various elements of the government address energy: legislation, executive actions, research and development funding, demonstration projects, subsidies, incentives, standards, regulations, purchasing agreements, even tax policy.

That increased demand, Dukhovnov said, could be partially addressed through more flexible workplace policies and tax breaks or other incentives that would better allow people to provide informal caregiving and continue working.

In addition to considering tax breaks and subsidies to mitigate problems caused by trade shocks, policy makers may want to better coordinate incentive programs to promote self - employment to reduce problems associated with cheaper imports.

While current energy policies play key roles in providing incentives for the use of solar energy in Indiana, businesses have an additional cost - saving option not available to residences: Businesses can deduct their investment in solar from their revenues — a tax policy known as depreciation.

There is almost too much here to take in: tax incentives, export controls, forestry policy, waste reduction and recycling proposals, CO2 taxes, electrical co-generation, virgin materials fees... There is even a discussion of energy - saving light bulbs and how to market them more efficiently.

For example, the researchers found many instances where the comprehensive plans included tax incentive policies to stimulate economic development in hazardous areas even though the local hazard mitigation plans identified the same areas as experiencing severe repetitive losses from hazard events and qualifying for federal funds for buyouts.

But «I'm not going to use the «T» word,» he joked, referring to Gates» call for using tax policy to create incentives for investments in clean energy.

Wigley also assumed no energy policy changes from current standards, like renewable energy incentives or carbon taxes.

The Utah Film Commission, which provides networking and tax incentives to an industry that spent $ 66 million in the state in the last fiscal year, recently instituted a policy that mandates any film production using the commission's resources must have a workplace - harassment policy in place.

These incentives are all the stronger because districts make decisions on a wide range of policy, taxing, and funding issues of great relevance to union interests.

Such a «reform» of the tax code would mean higher taxes for homeowners and less incentive to buy a home — which would reverse the decades of government policy supporting the «American Dream» of owning a home.

Tax policy can also influence how companies choose to return cash to shareholders — if dividends are taxed at a higher rate than capital gains, this creates incentives to return cash via buybacks and debt reduction.

It is dangerous to try to stabilize that instability, to create a great moderation of volatility, to keep marginal concepts from failing, whether through fiscal means (tax incentives and subsidies), or monetary policy (lower the policy rate or some banks will fail).

Among these incentives would be tax free dividends, tax free policy loans, tax deferred cash value growth, and a tax free death benefit.

Cash value life insurance offers the incentive of tax free growth of the Roth IRA AND greatly increases flexibility in that the policy proceeds may be borrowed without penalty or tax consequences and none of the other restrictions of Roth IRAs are applicable.

To keep the Social Security system financially solvent, several policy reforms have been proposed, including reducing retirement benefits, increasing the retirement age, raising taxes, offering incentives to delay retirement, and encouraging individual retirement savings.

Discounts on adoption fees are routinely offered based on the belief that they incentivize adoptions, and, to the extent a local or state government can create incentives through tax policy, there is reason to believe that such measures could positively affect decisions to adopt.

The city's role, on the other hand, is to influence and accommodate business investment decisions by: Investing in supporting infrastructure Adopting supportive taxing and regulatory policies Providing high levels of customer service, being «business friendly» Creating smart, sustainable incentives Understanding trends in the local economy Communicating with the business community If the city is successful it encourages job creation, generates the revenue to support and sustain local services, and improves the community's quality of life

5) policy, to help with incentives, regulations, taxes, including leadership at all levels, national, state and city

Under President Obama's Climate Action Plan, the United States has acted under existing laws to cut emissions with sector - specific policies, including: emissions regulations; tax incentives for clean energy technologies; standards for energy - efficient appliances, buildings, and vehicles; and voluntary partnership programs to address market barriers to low - carbon strategies.

Major energy efficiency provisions that have been included in these policy analyses include fuel economy standards, appliance and equipment standards, energy efficiency tax incentives, building energy codes, and industrial energy efficiency.

Two economists made a similar argument in Issues, adding that other useful tax - related policies include an end to energy supply subsidies, a green tax swap, a tightening of the gas guzzler tax, and conservation incentive programs.