fiscal burden
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffiscalandburden
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fiscal
adjective
uk/ˈfɪs.kəl/us/ˈfɪs.kəl/
connected with ...
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burden
noun[C]
uk/ˈbɜː.dən/us/ˈbɝː.dən/
a heavy load that ...
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(Definition offiscalandburdenfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In addition, public provision of extension services represents a heavyfiscalburdenfor governments.
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Often the single largest item of welfare expenditure, pensions may be a particular target for governments concerned with the 'fiscalburden' of the welfare state.
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To avoid imposing all thefiscalburdenof the transition on the current workers, governments must issue substantial debt.
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Accordingly, in 1986, the central government transferred responsibility for social welfare administration to the prefectural governments in order to reduce its ownfiscalburden.
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The index includes measures of trade policy,fiscalburdenof government, government intervention, monetary policy, foreign investment, banking, wages/prices, property rights, regulation and the black market.
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Fecundity becomes a matter of choice and temperament rather than afiscalburden.
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I am in favour of allowing as much discretion as possible when you are dealing with exemptions fromfiscalburden.
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There can be no doubt that those in families suffer a heavierfiscalburdenthan those who are not.
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The cost of raising personal allowances to over £6,000 is too great afiscalburdenat this stage.
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In the early part of the last century the heaviest part of thefiscalburdenwas borne by those who had no power in the government of the country.
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Clearly, we have to take into account the change from child tax allowances to child benefit, but families with children still suffer a heavierfiscalburdenthan others.
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Thefiscalburdenmay be £5 billion.
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A special assessment is premised upon the necessity for the public improvement and thefiscalburden imposed must be reasonably proportional to the benefit created.
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Thefiscalburdenof protective measures increased, due both to lower receipts from import duties and higher domestic expenditure.
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Consequently, the public had an asymmetric perception of the strengths and weaknesses of pension privatisation, biased towards its advantages and ignorant of its fiscal burdens.
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So far as fiscal burdens are concerned, in the first half of the fifteenth century they were limited to two different taxes.
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Normans laboured under a heavyfiscalburden.
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On the other front, it is no good passing legislation which puts additional fiscal burdens on the small companies every year.
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Should we not retrieve the money that way instead of by other methods, which increase the fiscal burdens?
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