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The police coverage costs the city treasury more than $2 million a year, officials calculate, or double the original estimate.

Mr. Hegde, who recently stepped down from his ombudsman role in Karnataka, released a scathing report in July that concluded that illegal mining had cost the state treasury more than $3.5 billion in tax revenues.

That would cost the treasury more than $1 trillion over a decade, but it would be a huge benefit for Mr. Romney's heirs and for the other 0.3 percent of estates rich enough to qualify for the tax.

The evacuation also reflected a general war weariness among a significant portion of the Spanish populace, as well as a realization that the conflict was costing the Spanish treasury more than it could afford.

The committee held a hearing on a resolution to strip the Garden of a tax break that it has enjoyed for a quarter of a century and that now costs the city treasury more than $11 million a year.

However, officials believe the move from annual haggling over budgets - which were costly in terms of time and needlessly confrontational - to a three-year planning cycle will help make the treasury more of an enabling ministry.

They now own 38percentt of outstanding Treasuries, more than double the figure of a decade ago.

Rates on corporate debt have fallen much more slowly than on Treasuries, more than doubling the difference between corporate and government interest rates before the recession.

"People worry that the zero percent financing will create weaker auto sales," she said, but the extra yield over Treasuries "more than compensates for what would be even flat sales in 2002".

Government budget surpluses, which led the Treasury to curtail the issuance of new debt and begin buying back existing long-term debt, made Treasuries more attractive, adding to the downward pressure on interest rates.

The Fed said on Wednesday that inflation remained a remote concern, making safer investments like Treasuries more attractive to investors worried about swings in the economy or in the stock market.