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  2. Lender of last resort - Wikipedia

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    The Federal Reserve System headquarters in Washington, D.C. The Bank of England in London The Reserve Bank of New Zealand in Wellington. In public finance, a lender of last resort (LOLR) is the institution in a financial system that acts as the provider of liquidity to a financial institution which finds itself unable to obtain sufficient liquidity in the interbank lending market when other ...

  3. Tax credit - Wikipedia

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    A tax credit is a tax incentive which allows certain taxpayers to subtract the amount of the credit they have accrued from the total they owe the state. [1] It may also be a credit granted in recognition of taxes already paid or a form of state "discount" applied in certain cases. Another way to think of a tax credit is as a rebate.

  4. Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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    As construed by the Supreme Court in the Brushaber case, the power of Congress to tax income derives from Article I, Section 8, Clause 1, of the original Constitution rather than from the Sixteenth Amendment; the latter simply eliminated the requirement that an income tax, to the extent that it is a direct tax, must be apportioned among the ...

  5. Tax cut - Wikipedia

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    Credit: A reduction in the amount of tax paid. Credits are usually fixed amounts. A tuition tax credit reduces the amount of tax paid by the amount of the credit. Credits can be refundable, i.e., the credit is given to the taxpayer even when no actual taxes are paid (such as when deductions exceed income). Exemption

  6. Earned income tax credit - Wikipedia

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    Tax credit equals $0.34 for each dollar of earned income for income up to $10,540. For income between $10,540 and $19,330, the tax credit is a constant "plateau" at $3,584. For income between $19,330 and $41,765, the tax credit decreases by $0.1598 for each dollar earned over $19,330. For income over $41,765, the tax credit is zero. [37]

  7. Debt monetization - Wikipedia

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    Debt monetization or monetary financing is the practice of a government borrowing money from the central bank to finance public spending instead of selling bonds to private investors or raising taxes. The central banks who buy government debt, are essentially creating new money in the process to do so.

  8. Fiscal multiplier - Wikipedia

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    The other important aspect of the multiplier is that to the extent that government spending generates new consumption, it also generates "new" tax revenues. For example, when money is spent in a shop, purchases taxes such as VAT are paid on the expenditure, and the shopkeeper earns a higher income, and thus pays more income taxes.

  9. Impoundment of appropriated funds - Wikipedia

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    The Supreme Court in Train v. City of New York (1975) [ 2 ] ruled that the impoundment power cannot be used to frustrate the will of Congress under such circumstances. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 was passed as Congress felt that President Nixon was abusing his authority to impound the funding of programs he opposed.