Sentence examples for taxes efforts from inspiring English sources

On the other hand, he said, these factors reduced the risk of defaults: a low current cost of debt service, opportunities for increased revenue like raising property taxes, efforts by governments to cut expenses, and the relatively high security of states' general obligation bonds.

Since the country lacks a national tobacco policy, the efforts to bring down smoking rates is largely conducted as a kind of guerrilla warfare — local smoking-ban fights, battles to enact excise taxes, efforts to put pressure on the tobacco companies at every turn.

At the insistence of anti-tax Republicans and Internet companies, the law required a two-thirds vote for any policy findings or recommendations, which they felt would curb any pro-tax efforts.

The global tensions — and the dueling tax efforts — stem from a shared concern among foreign governments that large, multinational corporations are not paying their fair share of taxes to the countries where they do business.

More Than Ready may fit that profile, but the small, hard-trying colt, who had the lead briefly in the stretch in the Derby, is coming off two taxing efforts.

Many of the state tax efforts are branded as loophole closers, not tax hikes.

Proponents of a red meat tax are inspired in part by recent soda tax efforts, from Berkeley and Philadelphia to Mexico and the U.K. In addition, over the past decade we have seen significant growth of the Meatless Monday campaign.

Both the swipe fee and online sales tax efforts were cosponsored by Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo)., and involved unusual bipartisan coalitions.

The widespread availability of cheaper contraband or illicit cigarettes in South Africa has been touted to undermine national tax efforts to reduce smoking through increasing the price the consumer pays for tobacco products.

It was a taxing effort for him to speak at all.

"There should be fairness in terms of resources and fairness in terms of tax effort.