Their version of tax reform would mean reducing deductions for the wealthy and corporations, with no rate reductions.

Pension, gratuity and social security arrangements are based on deductions from the employees' salary and contributions by employers.

First, investors who could not use the tax deductions had to go to considerable expense to monetize the credits.

One way in which it does so is by lowering tax rates and substantially increasing tax deductions for employees.

Raising revenue through tax reform will have to mean reducing the special deductions and exclusions that now lower tax receipts.

His boldest proposal eliminating deductions for interest paid on mortgages on second homes is trivial in terms of generating revenue.

(c) Transfer to the injured person any compensation obtained for the injury from the responsible State subject to any reasonable deductions.

General tax deductions are now paid out directly to the dependent partner instead of as under the old system to the breadwinner.

The members can withdraw only from their individual credits in the Fund (i.e., the accumulation of the 7.5 per cent monthly salary deductions).

For someone with a 15 marginal tax rate, a 2 of AGI cap would limit total deductions and exclusions to about 13 of AGI.

Instead, the money could be returned to donor country citizens through tax deductions or income transfers, and they could decide how to help those in need.

In the US, for example, no politician is anxious to say that home mortgage deductions should be eliminated, or that dividend payments should be tax free.

His plan would pay for lower income tax rates by eliminating tax deductions like those for charitable giving and mortgages, while maintaining tax preferences for saving and investment.

A desirable way to broaden the tax base would be to put an overall cap on the amount of tax reduction that each taxpayer can achieve through deductions and exclusions.

An overall cap would also cause many individuals who now itemize deductions to shift to the standard deduction implying significant simplification in record keeping and thus an improvement in incentives.

Even after various deductions, credits, and other tax breaks, the effective marginal rate the rate that corporations pay on new US investments remains one of the highest in the world.

The majority of well to do Muslims in Pakistan pay this tax voluntarily (in addition to the deductions made by the government from all savings accounts of Muslims once a year).

Less investment will mean less capital deepening.

There would be more democracy, less oppression more freedom, less terrorism more growth, less poverty.

Less effort, you're less persistent, and so on.

Sami started hearing from Layla less and less.

For a president bent on implementing reforms, less can be more less aggressiveness and less ego.

Such an overall cap would allow each taxpayer to retain all of his existing deductions and exclusions but would limit the amount by which he could reduce his tax liability in this way.

Even if the cap were applied only to itemized deductions and the health insurance exclusion, it would raise about 250 billion in the first year and about 3 trillion over the first decade.

Although not addressing the constitutional validity of the legislation, because there was a prima facie violation, the Court granted the interlocutory injunction restraining the Government from making deductions regarding the applicant's repayment orders.

It turns out, most people over 50 feel better, are less stressed, are less hostile, less anxious.

These revenue losses could be offset by curtailing so called corporate tax expenditures deductions, credits, and other special tax provisions that subsidize some economic activities while penalizing others and broadening the corporate tax base.

So, traffic keeps flowing, so that means less braking, which means less accelerating, less gas and less pollution, less time wasted, and that partly accounts for Europe's better efficiency than we have in the United States.

Here one encounters less collective hope and less individual fear.

There are Tunisians who want less rights, less freedom and less democracy to fight those who oppose freedom and democracy

China s technology inroads are usually less dramatic, but no less telling.

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President Barack Obama s proposed alternative to the fiscal cliff would substantially increase tax rates and limit tax deductions for the top 2 of earners, who now pay more than 45 of total federal personal income taxes.

This sterility and inertia make Europe less and less interesting for Americans.

Currently in Haiti we are speaking less and less of security problems.

It would not limit the amount of deductions and exclusions to 2 of AGI, but rather would limit the resulting tax reduction that is, the tax benefit that the individual gets by using all these special features.

Multilateralism may have to be less comprehensive and less formal, at least initially.

Trial by jury, which was infrequent anyway, is being seen less and less.

Its youth are less conformist and more demanding, less passive and more pluralistic.

Less noise, please.

Less noise, please.

One of the most efficient tax raising methods is the US payroll tax, for which the marginal tax rate is close to the average rate (because deductions are absent and there is little graduation in the rate structure).

There are no sex related differences whatsoever in the sizes of the insurance deductions for individual personal accounts in the system of personal accounting or in the computation of the sizes of pensions in the Republic of Tajikistan.

The threat they pose may be less dramatic, but it is no less pernicious.

This time, however, the report is less clear, less reassuring. Who were the protesters?