Sentences with phrase «wealth taxes targeted»

Jeremy Corbyn launched his general election campaign with a passionate speech that opened the door to wealth taxes targeted at the rich

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However, one of the tax reforms directly targets graduate students, a population not known for excess wealth.

It also confirmed it would introduce a 3 per cent tax on company dividends, increase wealth and inheritance taxes and abolish a tax «shield» — or ceiling — for the wealthy in its effort to meet its targets of cutting the budget deficit to 4.5 per cent of gross domestic product this year and 3 per cent in 2013.

It's a win for Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat positioning himself for a possible presidential bid, who along with other blue state governors has blasted Republicans in Congress for targeting their high - tax, high - wealth precincts through certain provisions of the $ 1.5 trillion Tax Cuts and Jobs Atax, high - wealth precincts through certain provisions of the $ 1.5 trillion Tax Cuts and Jobs ATax Cuts and Jobs Act.

Clegg's proposal is to target those with high asset wealth rather than income, which is likely to remain taxed at 45 % for some time to come.

In truth, the Lib Dems» general eagerness to tax wealth creates as much a conundrum for the Tory leadership as a target.

Elmira Star - Gazette: Green governor candidate pushes tax reform; Howie Hawkins targets wealth inequality, fracking, testing

Clegg's second reason for floating a wealth tax was his concern that George Osborne is planning to target the poor after the chancellor said in the budget that an extra # 10bn in welfare cuts may be introduced by 2016.

Estimate of Swedish tax shifting based on Paul Ekins and Stefan Speck, «Environmental Tax Reform in Europe: Energy Tax Rates and Competitiveness,» in press, 2007; Ministry of Finance, Sweden, «Taxation and the Environment,» press release (Stockholm: 25 May 2005); household size from Target Group Index, «Household Size,» Global TGI Barometer (Miami: 2005); population from U.N. Population Division, World Population Prospects: The 2006 Revision Population Database, at http://esa.un.org/unpp/; Andrew Hoerner and Benoît Bosquet, Environmental Tax Reform: The European Experience (Washington, DC: Center for a Sustainable Economy, 2001); European Environment Agency, Environmental Taxes: Recent Developments in Tools for Integration, Environmental Issues Series No. 18 (Copenhagen: 2000); environmental tax support from David Malin Roodman, The Natural Wealth of Nations (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998), p. 2tax shifting based on Paul Ekins and Stefan Speck, «Environmental Tax Reform in Europe: Energy Tax Rates and Competitiveness,» in press, 2007; Ministry of Finance, Sweden, «Taxation and the Environment,» press release (Stockholm: 25 May 2005); household size from Target Group Index, «Household Size,» Global TGI Barometer (Miami: 2005); population from U.N. Population Division, World Population Prospects: The 2006 Revision Population Database, at http://esa.un.org/unpp/; Andrew Hoerner and Benoît Bosquet, Environmental Tax Reform: The European Experience (Washington, DC: Center for a Sustainable Economy, 2001); European Environment Agency, Environmental Taxes: Recent Developments in Tools for Integration, Environmental Issues Series No. 18 (Copenhagen: 2000); environmental tax support from David Malin Roodman, The Natural Wealth of Nations (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998), p. 2Tax Reform in Europe: Energy Tax Rates and Competitiveness,» in press, 2007; Ministry of Finance, Sweden, «Taxation and the Environment,» press release (Stockholm: 25 May 2005); household size from Target Group Index, «Household Size,» Global TGI Barometer (Miami: 2005); population from U.N. Population Division, World Population Prospects: The 2006 Revision Population Database, at http://esa.un.org/unpp/; Andrew Hoerner and Benoît Bosquet, Environmental Tax Reform: The European Experience (Washington, DC: Center for a Sustainable Economy, 2001); European Environment Agency, Environmental Taxes: Recent Developments in Tools for Integration, Environmental Issues Series No. 18 (Copenhagen: 2000); environmental tax support from David Malin Roodman, The Natural Wealth of Nations (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998), p. 2Tax Rates and Competitiveness,» in press, 2007; Ministry of Finance, Sweden, «Taxation and the Environment,» press release (Stockholm: 25 May 2005); household size from Target Group Index, «Household Size,» Global TGI Barometer (Miami: 2005); population from U.N. Population Division, World Population Prospects: The 2006 Revision Population Database, at http://esa.un.org/unpp/; Andrew Hoerner and Benoît Bosquet, Environmental Tax Reform: The European Experience (Washington, DC: Center for a Sustainable Economy, 2001); European Environment Agency, Environmental Taxes: Recent Developments in Tools for Integration, Environmental Issues Series No. 18 (Copenhagen: 2000); environmental tax support from David Malin Roodman, The Natural Wealth of Nations (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998), p. 2Tax Reform: The European Experience (Washington, DC: Center for a Sustainable Economy, 2001); European Environment Agency, Environmental Taxes: Recent Developments in Tools for Integration, Environmental Issues Series No. 18 (Copenhagen: 2000); environmental tax support from David Malin Roodman, The Natural Wealth of Nations (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998), p. 2tax support from David Malin Roodman, The Natural Wealth of Nations (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998), p. 243.