Sentences with phrase «taxation on wealth»

He is also supporting a contentious conference motion that calls on Lib Dem ministers to look into the «viability and practicalities of increasing taxation on wealth - including land values».

Not exact matches

We need to revise our economies «to reduce wealth inequality and ensure that prices, taxation, and incentive systems take into account the real costs which consumption patterns impose on our environment,» the scientists said, adding: «We must recognize, in our day - to - day lives and in our governing institutions, that Earth with all its life is our only home.»

However, his actual assault on wealth through progressive taxation was abated for those businesses that knew how to work with and within government.

If, for instance, you try to use capitalism to promote greater equality of wealth by imposing on it a steeply progressive, redistributive system of taxation, you frustrate the way in which it rewards its chief dynamic force, the acquisitive impulse, and you are liable to end by making everyone poorer.

It seems irrational to me to say that a country is based on Judeo - Christian values and then argue that spending tax dollars on helping the poor is «wealth redistribution» or robbery through taxation.

It seems irrational to me to say that a country is based on Judeo - Christian values and then argue that spending tax dollars on the helping the poor is «wealth redistribution» or robbery through taxation.

The left should get over its fixation on high taxation of labour income and put more emphasis on taxing unearned wealth and environmental bads.

But the work described here helps to start the informed debate on wealth taxation we urgently need.

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).

«Wealth taxes» on total assets do exist, but they're not any country's primary means of taxation.

And up until December of last year, Cuomo was pushing back on the idea of redistributing wealth through taxation.

He wants to add that this process would start «with an annual «mansion tax» on the excess value of residential properties over # 2m as a first step towards wealth taxation designed to reduce inequality.

No amount of taxation on fossil fuel or building of totally impractical «unreliables» or redistribution of wealth from the rich to the poor countries will ever change that.

If you look at the taxes based on wealth / networth — then people are paying about the same percentage of taxes under our current income - taxation scheme.

The country relies on indirect taxation for its income but has never levied income, capital gains or wealth tax on its residents.

My primary research interests focus on global taxation issues (e.g., tax treaties, transfer pricing), international capital movement, wealth management and financial planning, and anti-money laundering.