The phrase "a phased in increase" is not correct in standard written English; it should be "a phased-in increase." You can use it when discussing a gradual implementation of an increase, such as in pricing, wages, or other metrics over time.
Example: "The company plans to implement a phased-in increase in employee salaries over the next three years."
Alternatives: "a gradual increase" or "a staged increase."
Among the new plan's concessions: an increase in the value-added tax from 13%to23%3%; abolishment of special VAT discounts for the tourism-dependent islands in the Aegean Sea; a phased-in increase in the retirement age to 67; immediate incentives to discourage early retirement; a phase-out of preferential tax treatment for farmers; and an increase in the corporate tax rate from 26%to28%8%.
In addition to a phased-in increase in the gas tax, it would include a comprehensive, economy-wide tax on carbon, or, alternatively, a cap-and-trade system.
A final deal, he says, will likely include a phased-in increase in the retirement age; a change in the way the consumer price index is calculated (that would lead to slightly smaller benefits increases for retirees each year); and somewhat higher payroll taxes and lower benefits for the well paid.
Congress also enacted a minority proposal, to phase in an increase in the Social Security retirement age, so that Americans born after 1960 must now wait until they turn 67 to get their full benefits.
The Raise the Wage Act, as the bill is known, would phase in an increase beginning this July, with the largest boost occurring in the first year of its implementation.
In Congressional testimony this week, Thomas J. Donohue, the chief executive of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said: "The money is running out, so we need to phase in a moderate increase in the gas tax over a number of years and index it to inflation.
Instead we need a phased reduction of tax credits hand-in-hand with a phased major increase in the minimum wage.
The Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR), which represents 750 employers, many of them blue-chip companies, also called for a phased increase in top-up fees.
A phased increase in retirement ages and the elimination of special privileges for certain professions will come into force in 2013 as part of a radical pension reform.
He also said he would phase in slowly a planned increase in fuel duty.
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