Sentence examples for deduction measures from inspiring English sources

Rather, Dr. Fleming favors a tax credit or a tax deduction, measures that would give patients an incentive to "watch the pocketbook".

Mr. Kitzhaber is working so hard to defeat the Sizemore initiatives, especially the tax deduction measure, that he has less and less time to devote to other state business and has abandoned his own tax reform and education proposals.

None of this fits with the government's pro-work rhetoric, and it is intriguing that the spending review documentation (at least on my quick reading) omits the table that was in the budget on the so-called marginal deduction rates which measure the poverty trap as people see their benefits reduced from working an extra hour.

And even when governments raise the money, they should first get rid of deductions and reverse unmeritocratic measures (such as George Bush's repeal of America's death tax) rather than jacking up income-tax rates to punitive levels.

At least among politicians in Washington, he is receiving credit for proposals to reduce taxes on dividends and to increase the allowable deductions for investment losses, measures that have taken root with some Republican lawmakers and that may well blossom into breaks for investors next year.

You would have to make a really big effort to come up with a pretax income the way an economist would measure it before deduction of either your piece of Social Security tax or your employer's.

The widely used and emulated model by Budyko (1974) for global and regional estimates of evaporation and, by deduction, surface runoff and other measures of liquid water fluxes, takes an important step in this direction.

* 1040 with standard deduction.

It's important to notice that such measures as increased deductions for capital losses provide no benefit to those whose investment takes place through 401(k) plans; so these tax breaks are mainly for the very affluent.

The 1040 is in the news as American politicians debate changes to income tax rates and deductions to head off austerity measures, known as the fiscal cliff, set to take effect in the new year.

The tax measure would mostly affect lower- and middle-income couples who claim the standard income tax deduction.