Reverse the cuts removing bulk-billing percentages for hospitals.
The business model is par for the course for carrier billing – a percentage of the transaction value is taken for each purchase customers make.
Ms. Libeskind acknowledged that the office kept no time sheets but said it was standard industry practice for architects to bill a percentage of total construction costs.
"They spend most of their money on utility bills, the percentage of which increases as the weather gets colder and prices go up".
Top billing in the percentage department goes to Oct. 19, 1987, "Black Monday," when the Dow plummeted 22.6percentt (508 points).
The Treasury's 10-year bill fell 1 percentage point, to 99 5/32.
Still others are billed on a percentage of assets -- usually 7 to 15 hundredths of 1percentt, Mr. Wright said.
While the I.R.S. did not dispute the data in the report, it called unfounded its comparison of the Son of Boss settlement program with a broader initiative, known as offer in compromise, which allows ordinary taxpayers to settle their tax bills for a percentage of the amount owed.
The innovation is to use fixed-price contracts, in which any over-runs are borne by the contractors, instead of old-style cost-plus contracts, under which the firm simply hands the government a final bill with a percentage tacked on as profit.
This would cost money in the short run - because the government pays for required hospital residency training - and feed large expenditures for decades because an increased physician supply will inevitably lead to a larger national medical bill, a growing percentage of which is picked up by government.
While it is sometimes possible to arrange for an offer and compromise to discharge a tax bill for a percentage of the total amount, it commonly takes at least a year to arrange this, while interest and penalties add up, and often these offers are rejected.
