Sentences with phrase «changes of state properties»

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Major changes include lower tax rates on individual income, a roughly doubled standard deduction ($ 12,000 for singles and $ 24,000 for married couples who file jointly), and sharp limits on a slate of itemized deductions, including a $ 10,000 cap on the break for state income, sales and property taxes.

The National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts («NAREIT») defines funds from operations («NAREIT FFO») as net income / (loss) attributable to common shareholders computed in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States («GAAP»), excluding gains or losses from sales of operating real estate assets and change in control of interests, plus (i) depreciation and amortization of operating properties and (ii) impairment of depreciable real estate and in substance real estate equity investments and (iii) after adjustments for unconsolidated partnerships and joint ventures calculated to reflect NAREIT FFO on the same basis.

Pharmaceutical companies are concerned about an onslaught of legislative proposals percolating in state houses around the country, among them: changes to Medicaid programs to rein in the high cost of prescription drugs, intellectual property issues, and the fight over biosimilars.

Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, operating in a highly competitive industry; changes in the retail landscape or the loss of key retail customers; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the impacts of the Company's international operations; the Company's ability to leverage its brand value; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's ability to realize the anticipated benefits from its cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; the execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; tax law changes or interpretations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the United States and in various other nations in which we operate; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives we use; exchange rate fluctuations; risks associated with information technology and systems, including service interruptions, misappropriation of data or breaches of security; the Company's ability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which we or the Company's customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's ownership structure; the impact of future sales of its common stock in the public markets; the Company's ability to continue to pay a regular dividend; changes in laws and regulations; restatements of the Company's consolidated financial statements; and other factors.

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

It reduced the cap on borrowing subject to the mortgage interest deduction (MID) from $ 1 million to $ 750,000, and capped deductions for state and local taxes, including property taxes, at $ 10,000.1 These changes, in combination with a doubling of the standard deduction, mean that many homeowners will experience a loss of tax benefits associated with homeownership, and the changes represent a significant shift in the federal government's willingness to promote and subsidize homeownership.

As proposed by New Keynesian economist and Ph. D. Huw Dixon, there are three properties to a state of equilibrium; the behavior of agents is consistent, no agent has an incentive to change its behavior, and that the equilibrium is the outcome of some dynamic process.

From job creation, to property tax relief, to reducing the cost of government, I look forward to working side - by - side with Andrew Cuomo and Robert Duffy to deliver the change New York needs and the government our state deserves.»

«Working together, our accomplishments are many ---- a game - changing property tax cap, record support for schools and elimination of the GEA, a 20 - percent middle class income tax cut, six straight budgets that have held the line on spending, targeted investments that will create jobs and revitalize our economy, and critical road and bridge funds for every region of the state,» he said.

Probably the most significant change happened in May, when state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced a consent decree with University Heights landlord Jeremy Dunn, whose 51 properties on Winspear and Northrup had been the scenes of more than 500 calls to 911 in the previous three years.

But the governor's plan would effectively give him ownership of the state's massive public school system, and would be among the most ambitious changes he's pursued in his governorship, a tenure that so far has included legalizing same - sex marriage, strengthening gun control, creating a statewide property - tax cap and reforming the state pension system.

The Abandoned Property Neighborhood Relief Act seeks to close the current loophole, changing state law to make lenders responsible for delinquent properties soon after they are abandoned — not at the end of a lengthy foreclosure process — and to pay for their upkeep.

The bill allows taxpayers to deduct the full payment of their property taxes and changes the state tax code reference to the federal tax code to reflect the code that was in effect prior to Dec. 1 of last year — effectively a reset button.

The State's mandated format unrealistically assumes there will be no changes to any of property tax levies for the participating municipalities or the county.

HARTFORD — On the heels of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's proposed adjustments to the state budget — including potential cuts in state aid for municipalities — Democratic legislative leaders and mayors from throughout the state gathered at the Capitol Friday to praise one aspect of the budget that Malloy said won't change — property tax reform.

John Whitley, with the New York State Property Tax Reform Coalition, admits the circuit breaker tax relief may be a victim of a session preoccupied with arrests and leadership changes.

I stated then in writing amongst other things that: ``... I am sorry if any person gets offended by my insistence on the protection of public property and putting Ghana First because I was molded with this world, social, and the cultural view to life and community which it is too late to change.

The EFCC stated that Mrs. Oke made the cash payment in tranches of $ 700,000, $ 650,000 and $ 353,700 to a Bureau de Change company, Sulah Petroleum and Gas Limited, which later converted the sums into N360, 000,000 and subsequently paid it to Fine and Country Limited for the purchase of the property.

As a result of changes in state laws enacted since 1789, the people have the right to vote for presidential electors in 100 % of the states, there are no property requirements for voting in any state, and the state - by - state winner - take - all method is used by 48 of the 50 states.

With the ceiling on school and local property taxes in effect, a consortium of groups representing school districts, business and local governments today renewed calls for sweeping changes to required state spending.

The state action would do nothing about changing the provision in the federal tax act that would severely restrict the federal deductibility of state and local property and income taxes.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman made a push Monday for the state's real estate brokers to take advantage of a recent change to the state's Real Property Law that allows brokers to rebate a portion of their commissions to clients.

Cuomo only asking the people to support the cap without any mention of mandate relief is the hamburger bun without the burger and simply fuels the opposition's (they say mandate relief before tax cap) claim that tax cap alone is a big - government scheme to take power away from and defund local towns and school districts and increase the power of the larger state government which created the property tax problem in the first place by passing the mandates which are the biggest property tax drivers and now refuses to change those mandates.

As the statewide vote approached, opponents warned that new casinos would exacerbate addictive gambling, while good - government groups cried foul after the state Board of Elections approved ballot language that included a warm description of the potential benefits of the change («promoting job growth, increasing aid to schools, and permitting local governments to lower property taxes») but none of the possible drawbacks.

«Of course, working closely with Governor Cuomo to help create jobs, change the business climate in New York state, and so it's important for me to work to continue to reduce property taxes, help reduce the regulatory burden, and also to help reduce energy costs,» Ritchie said.

While the Buffalo police is updating its policies and procedures to comply with the state program in areas like administration and property maintenance, changes to its training in the use of force and firearms will happen only once police move to their new headquarters over the summer.

Astorino says a plan for a property tax rebate check, due out in October shortly before Election Day, does «nothing to change the equation,» and he says the real issue of unfunded state mandates was not addressed.

Cuomo also makes changes to the STAR property tax rebate program, so that some of the money owed to taxpayers will appear as income tax credits, wiping $ 277 million off the books as state spending.

Stefanik said at the time she could still vote for the final bill and would work to change its treatment of the SALT deduction, which under current law allows taxpayers to deduct property and sales taxes, and state income taxes.

At the state level, suggestions that the «first - in - time» water rights policies might be modified triggers an equally radical reaction, conjuring fears of property seizure and a nearly religious opposition to change.

Thus, a homeowner will probably not be able to show that the hurricane that destroyed his house was spawned by global warming, but the state of Florida may well prove that increased damage to coastal property over several years has a lot to do with climate change.

«Harmonizing multiple quantum mechanical properties which often do not coexist together and trying to do it by design is highly complex,» states Professor Rondinelli.The application of an electric field to the oxide Ag2BiO3 changes the atomic positions and determines whether the spins are coupled in pairs (forming so - called Weyl - fermions) or separated (Rashba - splitting), and whether the material is electrically conductive or not.

To perform the teleportation, Alice takes advantage of one more strange property of quantum mechanics: that measurement not only reveals something about a system, it also changes its state.

In related work, a second team of researchers led by the same Penn State group used doping engineering that substitutes foreign atoms into the crystal lattice of the film in order to change or improve the properties of the material.

But exacting measurements of these properties — the so - called «equation of state» involved as matter changes from one phase to another in these collisions — have proven challenging.

This is due to so - called phase change materials, novel materials that change their optical properties depending on the arrangement of the atoms: Within shortest periods of time, they can change between crystalline (regular) and amorphous (irregular) states.

Melanocytes respond by altering gene transcription, and these changes in gene expression profiles result in easily quantifiable phenotypes such as modified pigment production (a hallmark of melanocyte differentiation state) and changes in morphological cell properties.

An international team of researchers, led by Arizona State University chemist C. Austen Angell and University of Amsterdam's Dr. Sander Woutersen, has observed one of the more intriguing properties predicted by water theoreticians — that, on sufficient supercooling and under specific conditions it will suddenly change from one liquid to a different one.

«Climate change refers to a change in the state of the climate identified (e.g., by using statistical tests) by changes in the mean and / or the variability of its properties and that persists for an extended period, typically decades or longer.»

«Overall, this new image of Yellowstone's crustal magma reservoir provides a better understanding of the magmatic volume, melt configuration, and fluid state that control its potential for future volcanism and its joint volcano ‐ earthquake hazard, as well as a basis for assessing temporal changes in the reservoir properties that could portend new volcanism,» the researchers wrote in their study.

Potatoes in their natural state are the biggest inhibitors of hunger, but as soon as you start frying them in various oils, sprinkle salt on them or put ketchup on them filled with high - fructose corn syrup, its properties change and makes them extremely unhealthy and dangerous.

The Republican governor, who has spent the past several years fighting to change the state's property - tax - reliant school finance formula, once again used the address to call attention to what he sees as the «unfinished business» of finance reform.

A proposed change in the Minnesota school - aid formula would raise the level of state support for local districts by about 15 percent, but at the same time would reduce state - subsidized property - tax credits, thereby leaving the amount of money schools receive essentially unchanged.

This lesson includes a powerpoint on changes of state (I always purchase some dry ice to demonstrate sublimation in class), properties of solids liquids and gases as well as melting and boiling points.

The organization has scored some huge advocacy wins at the state legislature in recent years to benefit charter schools including changes to zoning laws, impact fees, property taxes and the transferring of academic credits between charters and districts.

TABOR requires that the state and all school districts obtain advance voter approval for any new tax, tax rate increase, mill levy above that for the prior year, valuation for assessment ratio increase for a property class, extension of an expiring tax, or tax policy change directly causing a net tax revenue gain.

Beginning in 2018, the legislature will rob urban and suburban school districts, mainly in King County, of about one billion dollars in «local levy» funds (paid for with property taxes of King County homeowners), change the name of this billion dollars to «state levy» funds and then spreads this money around to more rural school districts.

I realize that much has changed in the last few years — widespread economic hardship, cuts in state aid by both Democratic and Republican state governments, much slower than anticipated growth in property values,, the opportunity to cut staff compensation under the threat of union busting, dramatic cuts to the revenue limit base — but despite all of these changes, if you go back to the principles and the details of Partnership Plan used to sell the 2008 Operating Referendum (which passed overwhelmingly) I think you can find plenty of justification for increasing property taxes in order to achieve the mission of the district.

Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward - looking statements include, without limitation, possible product defects and product liability, risks related to international sales and potential foreign currency exchange fluctuations, the initiation or outcome of litigation, acts or potential acts of terrorism, international conflicts, significant fluctuations of quarterly operating results, changes in Canadian and foreign laws and regulations, continued acceptance of RIM's products, increased levels of competition, technological changes and the successful development of new products, dependence on third - party networks to provide services, dependence on intellectual property rights, and other risks and factors detailed from time to time in RIM's periodic reports filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, and other regulatory authorities.

Chemistry is the branch of science which deals with the study of composition, structure, properties, and change in state of matter.