Her mission was projected from a narrow ideological base.

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.

The donor base for these contributions has remained relatively narrow.

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.

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

Some LDCs have made progress in undertaking tax reform, broadening the non tax revenue base and improving the efficiency of financial institutions.

That had been accomplished by widening the tax base, improving administration efficiency, reducing corporate income tax, introducing a personal income tax of 10 per cent and keeping value added tax at 10 per cent.

Activities will also include the development and promotion of effective mobilization of financial resources, taxation, especially measures to reform tax systems, combat tax evasion and widen the tax base.

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

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.

And we want to shift the systems that open the doors for people who were formerly tax burdens to become part of the tax base.

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

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.

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

It had created value added and tax base for the community, and something like 3,000 people died.

The already narrow industrial base suffered a serious further erosion as a result of the political events of the past 14 years.

(b) To promote appropriate fiscal and financial policies and measures in support of development, including measures to reform tax systems, combat tax evasion and widen the tax base, and to develop options for broad based development.

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.

35. Since most island developing countries have a narrow export base, one of the main challenges is to develop a diversified export structure.

So it has this infinitely narrow base that goes infinitely high, and the area under this I'm telling you is of area 1.

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.

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

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On the revenue side, those countries adopted measures aimed at expanding the revenue base, increasing the elasticity of their tax systems and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of their tax administration.

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

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.

First, there is the problem of those parties that have narrow constituencies and therefore a somewhat limited support base, both at local and national levels.

(b) Research and analysis to determine the appropriate tax reforms that are needed to improve the tax base and to improve the taxation of economic activities, including agriculture, manufacturing and services, to minimize tax compliance costs and to promote allocative efficiency and growth

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

So narrow minded.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The boxes are too narrow.

The error margin is narrow.

Too narrow in the hips.

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.