Dictionary of synonyms

Synonyms and antonyms of the word: windfall

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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.

Source: https://www.moneytalksnews.com/slideshows/9-tips-to-ensure-youll-have-enough-to-retire/

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.

Source: https://jerseyeveningpost.com/morenews/uknews/2023/02/21/uk-spent-50-billion-extra-on-gas-since-ukraine-invasion-say-analysts/

As CNN reports, the Treasury Department reported the cancellation of Biden’s student loan forgiveness program as a windfall for federal revenues, and thus reduced 2023’s deficit by about $300 billion, bringing it down to $1.7 trillion.

Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/11/ryan-mcmaken/theres-no-easy-way-out-of-this-debt-spiral/

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’.

Source: https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2023/02/05/creeping-national-security-state/

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.

Source: https://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2023/01/09/eu-says-windfall-tax-is-to-ensure-oil-companies-pay-fair-share-in-these-difficult-times/

Berkshire also stands to reap a windfall in the form of dividends from its Apple investment.

Source: https://www.benzinga.com/markets/equities/23/08/33590720/buffetts-apple-bet-to-rake-in-a-windfall-heres-how-much-berkshire-will-likely-to-make-in-dividen

Big corporations used the windfall from the tax cuts to buy back RECORD-BREAKING amounts of their own shares.

Source: https://truthout.org/articles/democrats-introduce-bill-to-quadruple-corporate-stock-buyback-tax/

Brian O’Dwyer, chairman of the New York State Gaming Commission, said sports betting in his state was generating a windfall of tax revenue.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/13/sports/online-sports-gambling-regulations.html

But Mr Hunt said that as energy prices had come down so too had the receipts from the windfall levy.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-hunt-help-energy-bills-b2279760.html

But your patience will be rewarded—at least 2% back on a whole year’s spending will feel like a nice little windfall.

Source: https://www.moneysense.ca/spend/amex-best-american-express-credit-cards-canada/

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”.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/shell-profits-energy-prices-gas-b2274211.html

For most authors, a six- or seven-figure advance is a shocking windfall; most books typically do not earn back the advance in sales.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/26/opinion/american-dirt-book-publishing.html

“From implementing a meaningful windfall tax on oil and gas giants to and the thousands of jobs that will bring to Scotland, a Labour government will transform our country.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2023/apr/10/rishi-sunak-stormont-joe-biden-visit-northern-ireland-good-friday-agreement-anniversary-uk-politics-live

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.

Source: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-02-06/skelton-newsom-promise-big-oil-for-profiteering

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’.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/markets/article-11629197/British-Gas-owner-Centrica-cashes-soaring-energy-prices.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

Her $5,000 windfall will assist furthering her hospitality career.

Source: https://newcastleweekly.com.au/nicholas-smith-serves-up-a-treat-to-win-brett-graham-scholarship/

His second criticism is that demonising the fossil fuel giants – or over taxing them with even higher windfall taxes – is daft.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/markets/article-12569951/MAGGIE-PAGANO-Unions-North-Sea.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

I always thought that this film will earn a lot of credibility but the commercial success was beyond expectations, so it was just a windfall.”

Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/bollywood/ayushmann-khurrana-says-his-films-are-not-mounted-on-100-crore-scale-is-in-a-self-discover-mode-after-pandemic-8592561/

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.

Source: https://slate.com/business/2023/03/boyfriend-paying-dates-personal-finance-advice.html?via=rss