Sentence examples for affluent tax base from inspiring English sources
As auto industry jobs moved elsewhere over the decades, for example, Detroit lost much of its affluent tax base.
Mr. Coppola argued that the most immediate risk in Pennsylvania was the possibility that companies, which are not required to share infrastructure like pipelines and compressor stations, could erect multiple sets, driving away developers and affluent residents and reducing the tax base.
Greenwich, Conn., an affluent town with a robust residential and commercial tax base, has a tradition of maintaining a low tax rate.
Rill argued that although financial firms employ only a few people, their affluent leaders hugely contribute to the island's tax base and cause a "multiplier effect" of investment on the island.
Some critics have called for the district to be consolidated with those of more affluent nearby communities, saying that Roosevelt lacks the tax base to support its own school system.
SYOSSET CURRENT BUDGET 2010-2011: $188 MILLION NUMBER OF STUDENTS: 6,600 CUOMO PROPOSED CUT: $1.4 MILLION Meanwhile, prospects remain bright in affluent districts like Syosset in Nassau County, which has a rich local tax base and, according to the most recently available statistics, gets only about 12.6 percent of its budget from the state.
Such deductions, which are worth hundreds of billions of dollars a year, narrow the tax base and distort behaviour, and their benefits flow disproportionately to the most affluent taxpayers.
Meanwhile, the tax base is whittled away.
That's most of the tax base.
