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George Osborne, shadow chancellor, is refusing to rule out his own windfall tax and demanding that banks forgo their tax losses.

Convenience store chains, wary of anti-smoking sentiment, have been reluctant to refer publicly to the windfall nature of their sales boost.

It might have led to a windfall financial gain, but, at the very least, it was an opportunity to make video games.

It would have been neither feasible nor wise for oil-rich nations to spend this windfall at home, so much of it was saved and sent abroad.

It's less risky to invest your windfall in someone with a proven business record, or put the money in the bank.

"In principle there was a political consensus during the campaign to charge a windfall profits tax on miners, " he said.

But it's easy to see the potential windfall Facebook stands to make.

To have one of their countrymen who can play, and is young and can be here a long time, I don't know how that's not a windfall for us.

The purchase landed it a windfall profit and a leading position in fixed-income trading on both sides of the Atlantic.

He told me that he often illusions themselves from an early age to encounter such a windfall uncle, however, has not encountered before.

It was a pretty good one, made of windfall limbs peeled smooth with a draw knife and thatched with pine straw.

With that windfall, Baekeland, with his wife and two children moved to Yonkers.

That has helped make it a windfall for all involved.

Coud Doyle ever have imagined when he started out in the fertilizer business 36 years ago that he would end up with a $500 million windfall?

The run up in business school applications during the recession has created a windfall for essay writers.

Have both models with the injured workers have been violated and whether or not to receive windfall profits because of it?

It has been argued that the main benefit would be the billions of dollars that would be the immediate windfall from any sale.

Are oil companies, I ask, more morally culpable than other industries that would not be subject to Obama's proposed [windfall profits] tax?

You never know, it may increase the number of 'good' buyers and result in an unexpected windfall.

adaptation " comes from a 1970s study of lottery winners, who a year after their windfall ended up no happier than nonwinners. "

But exporting farmers received a windfall from devaluation, augmented when world prices for farm commodities promptly began to rise.

Finally, in terms of corporate earnings it is the developed nations that still yield the greatest windfall to US multinationals.

Now you're asking yourself if all this came about just because Andy told Byron Hadley how to save the taxes on his windfall inheritance.

As the cofounder, part-owner, and chief scientific officer of Ambergene, Cano stood to earn a hefty chunk of any windfall that might result.

Meanwhile, fossil fuel corporations will be hit with a windfall tax that will be used to "deal with the effects of climate change. "

Wearing a deep edge with the law as Samantabhadra Bodhisattva. the Buddha Hu You. evil away from disaster. longevity and a windfall.

Interviewed in St Petersburg, Dr Perelman insisted that he was unworthy of all the attention, and was uninterested in his windfall.

He wishes a windfall might come his way.

Personal financial advisors that the windfall should be used to save for retirement, investment projects.

If the snow arrival is a windfall word, that New Year's day is one of our budget sodality for pleasure.

So the market price of online storage, at least for email, has now fallen to zero (see "Webmail Windfall" ).

We do not encourage originality by conferring windfall gains on the Disney Corporation, EMI, Citigroup, and the Picasso estate.

Gold miners have much to be pleased about, with the soaring price of gold since GLD was created in 2004 giving them windfall profits.

Green wrote. 'Maybe you can find your dream job, or a way out of a career sinkhole, or a financial windfall.

In 2005 I paid less than $10 per million and yet I did nothing to deserve or help pay for the windfall.

This suggests that many voters believe they have a right to any windfall earned by their parents' bricks and mortar, whatever Mill said.

Since the producers tend to save a large part of their windfall, the effect is to restrict global demand.

Chile will then be able to maintain its social programmes by spending what it has saved from its copper windfall.

There are two additional conditions that must be added to these new mortgages, to make them less of a windfall for borrowers.

In particular, the departure of Mr. Kudrin is seen as a blow to Russia's ability to hold on to some of its oil and gas windfall.

Exxon appealed to the Supreme Court, arguing the punitive damages were excessive and a "windfall" to the plaintiffs.

In most emerging markets, such as Egypt, let alone Africa, the ramifications of receiving such a windfall would be enormous.

But, he says he enjoyed the little windfall enough that he is now letting Allow offer his data to other advertisers.

Imposing either a "windfall tax" or special curbs on bonuses is an understandable political response to what is happening.

The government's decision to save so much of the copper windfall was not popular at the time.

The timing was perfect. When roaring Chinese demand lifted commodities prices a few years later, the shosha booked windfall profits.

The Argentine government, which says the windfall from high commodities prices must be shared, has branded the protest "extortion" .

THE reader may rest satisfied that Tom's and Huck's windfall made a mighty stir in the poor little village of St. Petersburg.

On top of that the government will take a 33% royalty and a windfall tax.

It's not enough to pay off my debts. Financial disaster seems very likely, so why shouldn't I just spend the windfall on lottery tickets?

It could be a hot new romance, it could be an unexpected windfall, or it could just be a perfectly prepared cup of coffee.

John has a windfall . It surprises his wife greatly .

Yet windfall taxes cannot contain financial excess, precisely because their goal is not to affect incentives.

Some of the money to pay for these schemes will come from a windfall tax on mining profits.

That, in turn, will mean facing down the planters, who prefer to bag forest land for a windfall of timber.

The man is still single and hasn't told any friends or relatives about his windfall so far.

Some governments have imposed windfall taxes on the big banks; the US has legislated for a tougher regulatory regime.

FDI inflows to Chile increased by 48% due to a continued rise in reinvested earnings resulting from windfall benefits from mining.

Some analysts suggest keeping them running and imposing windfall taxes that could be used to promote renewable energy.

Fishing in troubled waters: to make fake certificate while the accident occurred, exaggerate loss, and attempt to get windfall.

Most money to cover the deficit would come from the Reserve Fund, one of two funds consisting of windfall oil revenue.

To help solve these problems, Humala has proposed levying a windfall tax on the mining sector.

It also pulled out of the economic crisis solidly, using the windfall from copper exports saved during boom times.

Signing a player with a massive reputation can provide a commercial windfall through shirt sales.

This could be a fantastically large sum, and Mr Hazare's supporters hope this windfall may be released into India's economy.

Working online has been a financial windfall for Kelly, who struggled for months to find a decent job but kept hitting dead ends.

The UK government is now toying with a windfall bonus tax.

Government finances are in excellent shape , thanks partly to a windfall from an increased turnover tax on share trading .

Worse still, the distribution of monthly profits was negatively skewed: big losses were more likely to occur than windfall gains.

This predicted windfall offers Panama the best chance to escape the economic woes that have stymied much of Central America for centuries.

Lehman claims that Barclays should pay it as much as $11 billion for an allegedly undisclosed "windfall" on the brokerage.

Pent-up demand from companies to raise funds, as well as wider trading spreads and low interest rates, explain the windfall.

However, while many Americans dream of a financial windfall that would take care of them for life, the reality is sobering.

For Chang and other businesspeople here, the prospect of a mainland tourist invasion has raised hopes of a windfall.

Limiting rates paid to depositors also does not necessarily bestow windfall profits to banks.

Bondholders everywhere are anticipating windfall gains, as the owners of gilts have enjoyed.

The unassuming Texas resident celebrated his windfall by having a family portrait photograph taken Wednesday morning.

The local bank robber optimistically expects a windfall in the tens of thousands of dollars.

Windfall profits may manifest for a few.

When Britain won the right to host the Olympics in 2005, ministers promised a windfall not just for sport but for tourism.

The airline has been smacking its lips over the prospect of a $145 million windfall.

The government stimulus cheques sent out during those months probably had something to do with this, as some of that windfall was saved.

when they had a windfall, they would not spend the lot.

The government also said it would draw some $4 billion from its reserve fund of windfall copper revenue to pay for better schools.

The idea is simple: whenever you have a little windfall or make a good frugal choice, immediately save it for an extra debt repayment.

Cuts in income tax left public finances too dependent on windfall revenues from VAT on new homes, capital-gains tax and stamp duty.

Without the oil windfall, a majority of Venezuelans are likely to withdraw their consent.

People in that situation will spend much or all of any temporary windfall.

However, strong cool weather also brought a windfall to the police.

A windfall of federal cash spawns graft in much the same way that oil wealth or foreign aid can cause corruption in poor countries.

The Mexican windfall will be scrutinised by other producers suffering a drop in oil revenues, and particularly by Opec's members.

But there is no attendant economic windfall to all the change.

Bicycling is the latest fitness craze to hit America and it has brought a windfall to bicycle accessory makers.

His win at the races gave him a windfall of&100.

This portfolio reallocation represents a pure windfall for the oil producers.

He applied the windfall to payment of his mortgage.

Are the Gulf countries handling their windfall any better this time?

Ms Wang expects sales to dip in the first half of next year but then quickly recover, boosted by a double windfall.

So why do I now find the idea of a windfall tax on banks so appealing?

May be out for another try to get a windfall, but also may change the old ideas about the past.

That money will become available when the sales are completed, spreading the windfall for Wenger beyond just this summer.

Mr Wall wants to use the commodity windfall to build more infrastructure and fund more research and development.

The state governors, many of whom also lack legitimacy following the election, want the central government to dish out oil-windfall savings.

Oil prices tumbled, giving consumers a sudden windfall that helped support spending.

But don't expect such a windfall.

Africa's seeds are a potential windfall investment for Monsanto.

But students now hope that falling prices will provide them with a windfall.

Simon Johnson, chief IMF economist, says only half the oil producers' windfall is accounted for.

A windfall tax on profits, discussed by both government and opposition, might put any recovery at risk.

But farmers sitting on unsold stocks are in for a windfall.

Hedgers' loss is others' gain, giving a temporary windfall to Midwestern refiners.

Still, any windfall for Airbus could be shortlived, say analysts.

"Windfall" support should be matched by windfall taxes.

An oil boom would also mean a multibilliondollar windfall in tax revenues, royalties and leasing fees for Alaska and the Federal Government.

And the White House has ruled out more populist attacks on Wall Street pay, such as a windfall tax.

Government spending on building a bridge may have a bigger multiplier than a tax cut if consumers save a portion of their tax windfall.

The nuclear windfall is still some way off.

Mr Newton says he became "fearful and respectful" of the windfall.

We thought they were a windfall.

As to this matter it's better to strive for success instead of waiting for a windfall.

These efforts will cost money, a lot of money, and that is why Congress must enact the windfall profits without delay.

The 2006 deal was a windfall for the family, which took $107. 4 million, about a third of the proceeds, for itself.

The windfall production bonus on the Produce Action is unlimited.

Ms. Williams lost her crown and sued for $500 million, but the suit was dropped and Penthouse reported a $14 million newsstand windfall.

He has been underestimated by opponents. He is still in power today because of a massive oil windfall.

Critics said it represented a potential new windfall for lenders.

Down the rivers of the windfall light.

But anyway my life is a windfall, so it's the same to lose it here or there.

When Congress corrected the mistake, it didn't have the nerve to eliminate the windfall already granted to retirees born in1912through1916.

Of that rise, more than 40 per cent was due to the imposition of a windfall tax by Beijing last year.

With proven reserves of just 1. 2 billion barrels of crude (against Nigeria's 36 billion), Ghana's windfall may last only a generation.

But the iron-ore companies have gotten a windfall gain as iron-ore prices have soared (nearly doubling since 2007).

This windfall will eventually dwindle.

Two is to have sex or profit windfall profits was very good.

After the windfall, Ms. Gates pressed her son to get into philanthropy.

Behind the windfall is a confluence of factors.

Mr Harper has vowed to close the budget deficit by 2015, and Canada Post might bring a windfall at auction.

When the windfall is exhausted, countries have to relearn how to earn their foreign exchange the hard way.

I had a windfall from the football pools.

They feed on scraps from the table and ensure a windfall when the animal goes to slaughter, often at Chinese new year.

he toasted his $200 million windfall at home yesterday.

Windfall taxes are a ghastly idea.

But Putin has deftly managed the windfall and spread the wealth enough so that people feel hopeful.

In December banks were alarmed when a windfall tax of 50% on any bank bonuses above £ 25, 000 was announced.

Mr Murashima said people might be spending more because of an effective but temporary Y3, 000bn ($25bn) tax windfall.

At one point Mongolia instituted a 68 percent windfall profits tax on mining, since revoked, which scared all the banks away.

The answer rarely comes in the form you ones expect, such as windfall amounts of money.

Bad-tempered and very selfish, self - woman here there will be no windfall.

But making any windfall tax fair and feasible will be tough.

Yet so wasted has this windfall been that most Nigerians continue to live in squalor and poverty.

It could be a windfall!

Mr Stepic reckons the biggest irritant is bank windfall taxes imposed by Austria and Hungary, based on balance-sheet size.

Saul Eslake, the chief economist at ANZ Bank, accuses the government of wasting the windfall revenue from the commodities boom.

A sudden windfall may unbalance a weaker, less intelligent person and even ruin his life.

Yet when it does, the government will reap a considerable revenue windfall.

But backers see a multibillion-dollar windfall in tough times, and they will likely try again.

Other energy sectors, such as oil and power generation, have seen a re imposition of price caps and windfall-profit taxes.

Maybe that was a windfall.

The government is making windfall profits from everyone by selling land.

If, for example, money is so tight and no apparent windfall is coming your way any time soon, find inexpensive entertainment.

As I was going through that period of financial scarcity, I prayed that I didn't experience a cash windfall.

And the government enjoyed a windfall from selling our warrants.

A one-off windfall tax on bonuses would make the pain ahead for society so very much more bearable.

At the same time, there is an enormous potential windfall in the taxation of marijuana.

His first job paid $32 an hour, a windfall.

They pocket each 50 cents as windfall.

Here is the capital gain you worked so hard for; this is the marvellous windfall.

It is a potential windfall for truly global companies such as Toyota and Nintendo.

Hutchison made $117. 34 billion last year, due mostly to a huge windfall from the sale of its stake in British mobile phone firm Orange.

On the other hand, he says, too many doctors are performing heart operations that represent a financial windfall for hospitals.

The Gulf is doing its best to spend its windfall.

And each year the Fed returns to the Treasury a windfall called a seigniorage payment, which last year exceeded $20 billion.

3: Many people hope to have a lottery windfall.

Mr. Lee expects a windfall profit from playing the stock market.

Zambia scrapped its proposed windfall tax early last year after heavy opposition.

Last year, a windfall from a transaction levy on China's booming stock market helped boost the tax take by nearly 30%.

I bought it several months ago. I bought it at five and sold it at ten. I made a windfall from it.

Windfall profit may be regarded to be too high by authorities

If golfers are willing to pay more because they love a course, and the cost of construction was relatively low, the client makes a windfall;

Analysis of Model of Business Cooperation and Profit Distribution Based on Windfall Profit Product Under Closed-Loop Supply Chain

China raises windfall tax exemption threshold for oil producers

Behind windfall profit of small coal pits

Algeria agrees oil windfall tax