Corporate tax expenditures narrow the base, raise the cost of tax compliance, and distort decisions about investment projects, how to finance them, what form of business organization to adopt, and where to produce.

Her mission was projected from a narrow ideological base.

The donor base for these contributions has remained relatively narrow.

These sectors are technologically sophisticated, but form a narrow base for long term development.

According to the GAO, 80 of state tax officials opposed a national sales tax as an intrusion on their tax base.

And fourthly, it is important to expand the tax base.

This can include broadening the tax base, reducing tax avoidance and evasion, improving tax collection, and developing new, cooperative international taxation strategies.

Currently, LDCs' development efforts were offset by their narrow production base, heavy debt burden and lack of competitiveness and investment.

Broadening the income tax base is a central element of the highly regarded Simpson Bowles proposals for tax reform in the United States.

On horizontal and gently sloped branches, the primary problem is tipping to the side due to the narrow base of support.

And, while raising so much revenue with so low a tax rate sounds grand, the declining volume of trades would shrink the tax base precipitously.

In addition, private sector firms provide most of the tax base needed to fund public services.

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.

Export led growth did not take place rapidly after devaluation, because of either the narrow base of exports or adverse conditions in global markets.

The crisis also revealed the structural weaknesses of the economy, reflected in the restricted policy options of the central Government and the narrow export base.

That said, if the goal of corporate tax reform is to boost investment and job creation, broadening the tax base to pay for a lower rate could be counterproductive.

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.

The historical evolution of the birth rate shaped a population structure that is sufficiently young, characterized by a very wide base and narrow at the top.

Governments that don t need to broaden their tax base have few incentives to respond to the needs of their people.

Poor regions have a low base of economic activity to tax, which prevents them from investing in human and physical capital.

Austerity programs have been largely counterproductive, generating vicious cycles of slow or no growth, business closures, skyrocketing unemployment, and tax base erosion.

Obama s recent statement that he favors reforming personal and corporate taxes by lowering rates and broadening the tax base reinforces that impression.

The tax base thus increased from approximately 8 per cent of GDP in 1995 to more than 10 per cent in 2002.

Those gaps must be significantly narrowed through the transformation and reconstruction of our small economies, which have historically been reliant on a narrow production base and preferential market access.

In Africa, the development of most countries was inhibited by structural constraints linked to high dependence on a small number of primary products and a narrow local industrial market base.

Both are openly opposed not only to the tax increase, but also to the continuing presence of the US Marine base on Okinawa.

The rump euro s weakened exchange rate would lead to renewed economic growth, job creation, and a stronger tax base in southern European countries.

The Direction Générale des Impôts (DGI), the tax authority, has continued to try to widen the scope of the tax collection base through various schemes in Government controlled areas in an effort to increase State revenues.

Without a significant increase in opportunities for political participation, including genuinely competitive elections, the chasm between a predominantly young population and a ruling elite with a narrow generational base will widen.

The inherited economy was underdeveloped, impoverished and structurally unbalanced and the fragile and narrow economic base co existed with an extensive and relatively well developed system of education and health services.

So what else can eurozone governments do to raise revenue as their economies recover? Most economists favor finding ways to broaden the tax base for example, by eliminating special deductions and privileges in order to keep marginal tax rates low.

Finally, Abe s growth strategy demands a corporate tax reduction a powerful tool for increasing the tax base in a world in which countries are competing to attract multinational companies. Indeed, lower taxes are vital to increase foreign and domestic investment in Japan.

The boxes are too narrow.

Moreover, all of Greece s structural problems a thin tax base, large numbers of government employees who receive bonus payments, and generous pension benefits cannot be sustained within the eurozone.

This base was called Base Marret.

Thus, regional disparities in terms of economic prosperity may never narrow indeed, they could often widen. Lanzhou, the capital city of Gansu province in the west, might never catch up with Suzhou, a well known manufacturing base near Shanghai.

The solution was a narrow base of funding through the Rothschilds and the closed circles of the Bourse in Paris, so France did not develop the same kind of national stock exchange that flourished in London and New York.

At the same time, the export base of all but the most highly industrialized of the Mediterranean Arab countries is still too narrow and or reliant on low level processing therefore, also their supply capacity needs to be addressed.

More fiscal space can be created by improving governance and strengthening the tax base, and, for the poorest countries, by achieving additional stable official development assistance (ODA) channeled through national budgets.

Although progress has been slower than required, over the past 10 years the country has succeeded in increasing its tax base and social spending on the implementation of the peace agreements.

This narrow focus makes the debate unconstructive.

Indeed, Mubarak s strategic vision is desperately narrow.

The 2005 General Schedule increase, combined with the effect of tax changes, resulted in GS 13 GS 14 salary levels that were 2.49 per cent higher than the current base floor salary scale.

Britain s last election also produced a narrow outcome.

On this narrow point, they might be right.