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Windfall meaning
Something that has been blown down by the wind. | The act of something being blown down by wind. | A fruit that has fallen from a tree naturally, as from wind.
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A financial windfall — an inheritance, an insurance settlement or proceeds from the sale of a business — can be a golden ticket to a richer retirement.
Alethea Warrington, energy campaigner at the charity Possible, said the cheapest and quickest way to reduce people’s energy bills outside of a windfall tax would be to change the planning laws around onshore wind.
A trader having windfall profits in KPK might have to be at pains with his bank to prove why his receivable is not a ‘suspicious transaction’.
A windfall tax is a one-off tax imposed by a Government on a company, specifically targeting those that benefit from something they were not responsible for.
Berkshire also stands to reap a windfall in the form of dividends from its Apple investment.
Big corporations used the windfall from the tax cuts to buy back RECORD-BREAKING amounts of their own shares.
Brian O’Dwyer, chairman of the New York State Gaming Commission, said sports betting in his state was generating a windfall of tax revenue.
But Mr Hunt said that as energy prices had come down so too had the receipts from the windfall levy.
But your patience will be rewarded—at least 2% back on a whole year’s spending will feel like a nice little windfall.
Ed Miliband, Labours shadow climate secretary, said ministers were letting “the fossil fuel companies making bumper profits off the hook with their refusal to implement a proper windfall tax”.
For most authors, a six- or seven-figure advance is a shocking windfall; most books typically do not earn back the advance in sales.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has urged state lawmakers to slap oil companies with a windfall profits tax for high gas prices, but so far there’s been little action in Sacramento.
He also has a big windfall on the horizon.
He called on the Government to revisit its windfall taxes and ‘close the loopholes so that those profiting from the energy bills crisis fund the additional support needed to keep people warm and businesses afloat’.
Her $5,000 windfall will assist furthering her hospitality career.
His second criticism is that demonising the fossil fuel giants – or over taxing them with even higher windfall taxes – is daft.
If he receives smaller amounts over time, he’s more likely to practice better money management than if given a large windfall all at once.
In last month’s Autumn Statement chancellor Jeremy Hunt snubbed calls for a cut in the headline rate applying to the windfall tax imposed last year on oil and gas firms.
In November, voters in Arkansas, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska, North and South Dakota will decide on whether to liberalize their own cannabis laws — and let windfall pot industry taxes flow into state coffers.
Is it time for a larger windfall tax?