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THE BUFFETT RULE: A BASIC
PRINCIPLE OF TAX FAIRNESS
The National Economic Council
April 2012
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The Buffett Rule: A Basic Principle of Tax Fairness
The Buffett Rule is the basic ... lawyers and
accountants to take particular advantage of loopholes and tax expenditures. The average tax
rate masks the fact that some high-incom...
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north-east Africa and in sub-Saharan Africa north of the
equator. The practice and type of FGC is often speci®c to
particular ethnic groups, so that prevalence of the opera-
tions ... the ages 15 and 54 in the
demographic surveillance area of Farafenni. The study was
approved by the Ethics Committee of the Gambia
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• A major intensification of the role the FSA plays in bank balance sheet analysis and in the
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of its vital points as has this law. It is not strange that among the great number of
National and State courts the railroad companies have found occasio...
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Would a gentleman or a lady accept a gratuity?
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taxicabs ... employment.
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... to the U.S. Treasury under the Capital Purchase Program of the Troubled Asset
Relief Program (TARP). The four banks are Bank of Marin Bancorp (Novato, CA), Iberiabank
Corporation (Lafayette, LA), ... (TALF), explaining in detail the rationale and operation of the TALF.
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