Examples of fixed income in the following topics:
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- Fixed income refers to any type of investment under which the borrower/issuer is obliged to make payments of a fixed amount on a fixed schedule: for example, if the borrower has to pay interest at a fixed rate once a year, and to repay the principal amount on maturity.
- Fixed-income securities can be contrasted with equity securities, often referred to as stocks and shares, that create no obligation to pay dividends or any other form of income.
- In an attempt to fix these economic problems, the United States federal government passed a series of costly economic stimulus and bailout packages.
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- For example, the Bright Green environmental movement focuses on developing technological fixes for environmental problems.
- The Green Jobs movement focuses on combining needed new employment opportunities in low-income neighborhoods and neighborhoods of color with environment improvements in those same neighborhoods.
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- Everything would be better if experts identified the problems and fixed them.
- Perhaps the best known leaders were engineers Frederick Taylor (1856–1915, ), who used a stopwatch to identify the smallest inefficiencies, and Frank Gilbreth (1868–1924) who proclaimed there was always one best way to fix a problem.
- At the national level, productivity growth raises living standards because more real income improves people's ability to purchase goods and services, enjoy leisure, improve housing and education and contribute to social and environmental programs.
- Productivity growth is important to the firm because more real income means that the firm can meet its obligations to customers, suppliers, workers, shareholders and governments and still remain competitive or even improve its competitiveness in the market place.
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- Medicaid is a health program for people and families with low incomes and Medicare is for people over 65 and disabled.
- Medicaid is the United States' health program for qualified individuals and families with low incomes and resources.
- Medicaid serves people who are U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents, including low-income adults, their children, and people with certain disabilities.
- Medicaid is the largest source of funding for medical and health-related services for people with limited incomes in the United States.
- Under managed care, Medicaid recipients are enrolled in a private health plan, which receives a fixed monthly premium from the state.
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- Changes in the level and composition of taxation and government spending can impact the following variables in the economy: (1) aggregate demand and the level of economic activity; (2) the pattern of resource allocation; and (3) the distribution of income.
- These pay interest, either for a fixed period or indefinitely.
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- Doing this, however, simply reduces government interest costs, rather than truly fixing the government debt.
- Because the government draws its income from much of the population, government debt is an indirect debt of the taxpayers.
- In the United States, taxes are imposed on net income of individuals and corporations by the federal, most state, and some local governments.
- Democrats argue for the wealthy to pay more via higher income tax rates, while Republicans focus on lowering income tax rates.
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- Changes in the level and composition of taxation and government spending can impact the following variables in the economy: aggregate demand and the level of economic activity; the pattern of resource allocation; and the distribution of income.
- This expenditure can be funded in a number of different ways: taxation, printing money, borrowing money from the population or from abroad, consumption of fiscal reserves, or sale of fixed assets (land).
- These pay interest, either for a fixed period or indefinitely.
- In the classical view, the expansionary fiscal policy also decreases net exports, which has a mitigating effect on national output and income.
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- Federal income tax is levied on the income of individuals or businesses, which is the total income minus allowable deductions.
- Federal income tax is levied on the income of individuals or businesses.
- When the tax is levied on the income of companies, it is often called a corporate tax, corporate income tax or profit tax.
- Individual income taxes often tax the total income of the individual, while corporate income taxes often tax net income.
- Taxable income is total income less allowable deductions.
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- This interpretation is particularly argued to apply to recent municipal transactions in the United States, particularly for fixed term, such as the 2008 sale of the proceeds from Chicago parking meters for 75 years.
- Another given rationale is the high corporate income tax rate in the U.S. relative to other OECD nations, and the uncommonness of taxing revenues earned outside of U.S. jurisdiction.
- It is argued that lowering the corporate income tax and ending the double-taxation of foreign-derived revenue (taxed once in the nation where the revenue was raised, and once from the U.S.) will alleviate corporate outsourcing and make the U.S. more attractive to foreign companies.
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- Citizens and residents are taxed on worldwide income and allowed a credit for foreign taxes.
- Most business expenses reduce taxable income, though limits apply to a few expenses.
- State rules for determining taxable income often differ from federal rules.
- Federal tax rates vary from 10% to 35% of taxable income.
- Employers also must withhold income taxes on wages.