"The regulated system creates both windfall beneficiaries -- small households occupying large apartments -- and a huge number of nonbeneficiaries who experience a corresponding degree of harm".
The term originated in America among opponents of estate tax (equivalent of our inheritance tax) and cleverly switched the focus from unearned windfalls scooped by beneficiaries of bequests to injustices done to hard-working individuals pursued for tax beyond the grave.
Solar power is one of the fastest-growing areas: investments have risen from $59m in 2004 to $308m in 2006, says Nicholas Parker, chairman of the group.The main beneficiaries of this windfall are start-ups, such as Nanosolar and Miasolé, which are based in Silicon Valley and focus on new technologies.
If there is an undeserved windfall, it is to these beneficiaries of the digital public performance right, webcasters and satellite radio in particular, who want to stiff artists and musicians when they need it most based on a "gotcha" loophole that the Congress could fix.
"There are 22 countries producing oil and they have been the beneficiary of a tremendous windfall," he said.
Baseball estimated it was the beneficiary of a financial windfall of $1.5 billion from the home run race between McGwire and Sosa.
These three projects will be the main beneficiaries of the financial windfall, but some money will be up for grabs for other developments.
Chávez is the beneficiary of the greatest oil windfall the world has seen, one based in part on political upheaval in Iran, Iraq and Nigeria but also on a surge in demand from China and India that is unlikely to end soon.
For, far from being victims, they are the beneficiaries of an enormous tax windfall -- over the last 50 years, our top income tax rate has fallen by 48percentt.
In the case of beneficiaries the goal is to reduce windfall effects, by attracting those who are really facing difficulties in finding a job and gaining work experience.
