| Increase the progressivity of the federal income tax, and finance Medicare through increased sin taxes, gas taxes, and general revenue. |
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| The principle behind progressivity is that people need an average amount of money for their basic needs such as food and shelter. |
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| Some people, such as our German friends, want to retain only one criterion and to abandon progressivity. |
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| Thereafter it increases as a percentage of GDP, reflecting the progressivity of the income tax system. |
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| Clearly, the estate tax is at an extreme of progressivity, since the vast majority of taxpayers do not pay it at all. |
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| We could debate how to deal with progressivity where all of our points are concerned. |
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| But the other half of the equation, public spending, negates much of that progressivity. |
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| It falls to us to find, for these countries, progressivity systems that do not, under any circumstances, alter the global targets or the final deadline, namely 2020, but that are still acceptable to the other countries. |
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| The latter include a strong degree of progressivity of personal income taxes and a high burden on dependent employees compared with the self-employed, even though the average tax burden is low. |
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| In other words, the elasticity of the personal income tax system should be greater than one, on average, due to the progressivity of the tax system-taxpayers pay progressively higher tax rates as their earned income rises. |
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| Moreover, in a number of Member States, reforms aiming at reducing the degree of progressivity of income taxes may enhance incentives to participate in the labour market at the top end of the household earnings scale. |
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| The first of these summarises the progressivity of the pension benefit formula and the second, the link between pension in retirement and earnings when working. |
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| A natural way of implementing an employment subsidies scheme, in countries characterised by a high level of payroll taxes, is through the introduction of a certain degree of progressivity in the tax system. |
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| Although appealing at first view, progressivity in contributions would not be consistent with the Union's established practice of showing solidarity via the expenditure side of the budget. |
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| Another cause is the rate at which income is taxed coupled with the progressivity of the tax system. |
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| Additionally, steeper tax progressivity applied to social spending can result in a more equal distribution of income across the board. |
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| For other people it would be eighty percent. Under which of these scenarios have we equalized the tax rates on capital gains and labor income? In short, it's very difficult to ensure progressivity in the tax code. |
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| The date above for the elimination of all forms of export subsidies, together with the agreed progressivity and parallelism, will be confirmed only upon the completion of the modalities. |
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| While the federal tax code is still progressive, its progressivity has eroded, with a significant percentage of the richest now paying a much lower tax rate than the merely rich and the middle class. |
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| In fact, it is simply a shift towards greater progressivity. |
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| Furthermore, due to the progressivity of the tax system, as individuals earn higher real incomes and move into higher tax brackets, they pay proportionally more of their income in taxes. |
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| Thereafter, personal income tax revenues increase somewhat as a percentage of GDP, reflecting the progressivity of the income tax system and real income gains. |
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| For the remaining years, the impacts on personal income tax revenues are higher in the real GDP shock, reflecting higher real income and the progressivity of the tax system. |
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| Arnold's work indicates that consumption taxes and property taxes are distinctly superior to income taxes, especially to an income tax with high progressivity. |
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| Some of his recommended tax policies, such as a limit on the value of tax deductions for those in higher brackets, would increase the progressivity of federal taxation. |
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