Obama's prime target for what he calls income-tax fairness is the 20-point gap between the top rate for capital gains and ordinary income tax rates. ❋ Unknown (2011)
It's a tax-collection in disguise since there are problems with the constitutionality of the current income-tax laws. they don't want it to call it income-tax. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The New York State Department of Labor sent notices on Thursday to 80,590 New Yorkers who allegedly committed unemployment fraud and ordered them to repay their debt, or risk having their federal income-tax returns garnished. ❋ Joseph De Avila (2010)
In one of the largest Statehouse rallies ever, thousands of unionized government workers and social-service advocates rallied for an income-tax hike that could avert billions of dollars in crippling budget cuts. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Sure, if you knew your income-tax rate would be lower in the future, it would make sense to plow as much money as possible into tax-deferred accounts. ❋ Carolyn T. Geer (2010)
At least 10 states have raised income-tax rates, at least temporarily, on higher earners in recent years. ❋ John D. McKinnon (2010)
Yet focus groups suggested that part of the reason for its popularity was that quite a few voters thought that all this cash would go into the education system by simply paying an extra penny on their income-tax bills. ❋ Aditya Chakrabortty (2010)
The governor campaigned on a pledge not to raise taxes, and the budget proposed Tuesday maintains a 4.2-percentage-point cut in the state income-tax rate that took effect Jan. 1. ❋ Amy Merrick (2011)
It asks voters to raise the state income-tax rate 1 percentage point on income exceeding $150,000 per individual and $300,000 per couple. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"Those with the most, need to pay more," Mr. Osborne said, citing "fairness" as he defended his government's decision to keep marginal income-tax rates at 50%, and its hike of the top capital-gains rate to 28% from 18%. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Whole and universal life's tax benefit could become still more important to affluent families if their income-tax rates rise, as they would under Obama administration plans to restrict the extension of the Bush-era tax cuts. ❋ Mark Maremont (2010)
In 2007, that state began garnishing state income-tax returns to recoup illegally received unemployment insurance. ❋ Joseph De Avila (2010)
Mr. Obama said nothing explicitly about rejecting an extension of all the cuts, including income-tax rates for upper-income households. ❋ Jonathan Weisman (2010)
Mr. Babacan said he has spoken to a surprising number of bankers who he said were fed up with London's income-tax increases and told him they were considering moving personnel. ❋ Marc Champion (2010)
Indicted after leaving office on income-tax evasion charges but was acquitted. ❋ Douglas Belkin (2011)
To imagine what such a large soak-the-rich income tax would do to Washington, we need only examine how states with the highest income-tax rates perform relative to their zero-income tax counterparts. ❋ Arthur Laffer (2010)
The company also raised its earnings forecast for the year again on expected lower interest and income-tax expense and "some improvement in operations." ❋ Tess Stynes (2010)
In 2009, the U.K. government increased its top marginal income-tax rate to 50% from 40%. ❋ David Gauthier-Villars (2011)
Not unlike, for example, the income-tax evasion charges finally brought against Al Capone, when evidence of racketeering proved elusive. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Between late 2008 and the end of 2009, while income-tax and sales-tax collections were plummeting, combined state and local property-tax collections grew, albeit slowly, according to a study by the Rockefeller Institute of Government at the State University of New York in Albany. ❋ John D. McKinnon (2010)
