Business group: NY&#39;s taxes, energy costs sap competitiveness
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ALBANY, NY A business group says New York&#39;s high energy costs and other expenses have made the state&#39;s price of doing business higher than most other states.
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Some companies are dealing with rising oil costs in unique ways.
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Despite a mild winter so far, New Yorkersâ heating bills are up as a result of the rising price of oil and natural gas.
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Businesses are hoping that at least some post-Enron regulations can be rolled back in the name of making the U.S. more competitive.
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The company is in a phase of explosive growth, and that costs money.
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ALBANY, Feb. 5  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A survey of member firms conducted by the American Council of Engineering Companies of New York has revealed the direction, trends and challenges the New York State consulting engineering industry expects to face over the next several years.
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Some of the United States&#39; biggest, most profitable corporations saw their federal income tax rates decline over the last three years, thanks to recent tax cuts, according to a liberal think tank in Washington.
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By Daniel Wagner, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Jun. 20--With the state legislature expected to wrap up business by the end of Thursday and take a recess, a Long Island group is still working to advance its priorities of environmentally sustainable growth through several bills.
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By Andrew Balls, James Harding and Christopher Swann in Washington. US business has little appetite for fundamental tax reform, seeing deficit reduction and government entitlement programmes as priorities for President George W Bush&#39;s second-term agenda.
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Energy firms lured by incentives on carbon emissions and radioactive waste
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Investors have grown increasingly anxious about how soaring energy costs might dent consumer spending ahead of the what is widely expected to be a chillier than normal winter.
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A new report shows that New York City has the heaviest tax burden of the nine largest American cities, but what do New Yorkers get for what they pay?
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Senate Republicans block a $32 billion in tax breaks for renewable energy that would have been financed mostly by new taxes on major oil companies. The GOP argues an oil-company tax increase would reduce production and raise gas prices.
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Despite financial market volatility, U.S. technology companies had a strong 2007. The rising cost of energy, fears of recession, and forecasts of a slowdown in IT spending, however, point to a rocky 2008.
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Pacific Rim business leaders say governments must make polluting more costly to businesses and make investing in expensive energy-efficient technologies more attractive if they want to reduce global warming.
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Rising energy and employee health-care   costs, as well as high taxes, caused U.S. manufacturers to fall   further behind their foreign rivals in terms of economic   competitiveness, according to a study released on Wednesday.
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The case for using a carbon tax to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.