Sentences with phrase «than the taxpayers provided»

The proposals are designed to be as cost - effective as possible and, if all were approved, the leaner Buffalo and Erie County Public Library System will be better equipped to meet continued high public demand for service at a cost that would still be LESS THAN THE TAXPAYERS PROVIDED IN THE YEAR 2000!

Not exact matches

«Previous governments in Alberta and Ottawa offered to provide a subsidy of $ 779 milliontoward the $ 1.4 - billion price tag for TransAlta's proposed coal - fired carbon capture and storage project, but even with taxpayers shouldering more than half the cost, there wasn't a viable business case and the project was shelved.

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Yet privatisation has in general failed to improve the level of services provided to consumers while costing the taxpayer far more than alternative public schemes (see for example Warwick Funnell, Robert Jupe, and Jane Andrew, In Government we Trust).

With this year's tax day less than a month away, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman provided taxpayers with tips to help avoid fraudulent tax schemes.

«We're not surprised that the Senate Democrats, who nearly bankrupted this state, would want to force New Yorkers to spend $ 200 million in taxpayer money to fund political campaigns rather than investing those dollars in our schools or providing incentives to help businesses create jobs,» said the spokesman, Scott Reif.

Re-elected in November, the Democrat has proposed a new mechanism to provide property tax relief to more than 1.3 million New York taxpayers, establishing a commission to set salaries and limit outside income for state legislators, and restricting the prosecution of juveniles as adults.

DeFrancisco was critical of the plan to provide free tuition to SUNY and CUNY schools, saying taxpayers will still ultimately foot the bill for the plan that would benefit families who make less than $ 125,000.

But more than that it has provided insight to the taxpayer about the process, limitations and possibilities of municipal spending.»

When it comes to investing such a substantial amount of taxpayer money, the expectation that updates and reports will be provided in a timely manner should be higher than ever.

I use funds from my campaign account rather than using taxpayer dollars to pay for additional expenses because of my personal commitment to providing the highest quality services to my constituents.»

«If we provide a taxpayer subsidy in exchange for jobs, we should expect jobs that pay a better wage than the minimum wage,» said City Council Speaker Christine Quinn in a statement ahead of the vote.

State taxpayers bear most of the financial burden, as Albany provides the district with more than 80 percent of its funding.

«We're not surprised that the Senate Democrats, who nearly bankrupted this state, would want to force New Yorkers to spend $ 200 million in taxpayer money to fund political campaigns rather than investing those dollars in our schools or providing incentives to help businesses create jobs,» said GOP spokesman Scott Reif.

The legislation would provide public financing from taxpayers to candidates who limit campaign contributions to less than $ 100 per person.

Less than a month into their legislative session, Florida lawmakers are knee - deep in debate over a plan to provide taxpayer - financed tuition vouchers to students in the state's most academically troubled schools.

The history of the MPCP illustrates how voucher programs can provide significant taxpayer savings when students voluntarily choose to attend schools that draw less on public funds than the schools they would otherwise attend.

«Rather than using taxpayer dollars to provide vouchers to a few, we must focus our resources and efforts on concrete reforms that make our public schools better for all of the District's schoolchildren.»

Since 2014, Trinity Christian has received more than $ 1.2 million in taxpayer funds through the Opportunity Scholarships Program, which provides low - income families money to attend private schools.

«Everyone with an interest in education, parents, teachers and politicians, should be concerned that Ofsted, an agency which costs taxpayers over # 150 million a year, appears to make inspection judgements based on the level of deprivation of the school's pupils, rather than on the quality of the education it provides.

Here in Connecticut, the Malloy administration is providing significantly less than 20 percent of the cost of implementing the SBAC testing program, meaning local property taxpayers are literally shelling out tens of millions of dollars for a test that is designed to fail their children.

James Larue of the Douglas County Library system recently said «libraries and taxpayers who support libraries are being ripped off in ways that not only outrageously inflate the payment to publishers (surely their costs are not three times greater to provide the book to us than to the consumer), they also greatly reward distributors.

Private mortgage insurance is a 60 - year old bedrock of the housing system that for decades has helped low down payment borrowers qualify for mortgage financing — more than 25 million borrowers to date — and has provided critical credit risk protection to the government and taxpayers through numerous housing cycles.

Filing as head of household provides you with a larger standard deduction and allows you to take advantage of tax brackets that are more favorable than those available to single taxpayers.

For more than 60 years, private mortgage insurance (MI) has played a critical role in providing access to mortgage credit and protecting taxpayers.

If you receive tax form 1099 - MISC for services you provide to a client as an independent contractor and the annual payments you receive total $ 400 or more, you'll need to file your taxes a little differently than a taxpayer who only receives regular employment income reported on a W - 2.

The responsibility of the taxpayer to prove that his or her tax return is accurate, rather than the IRS having to provide convincing evidence that it is inaccurate.

More than one hundred hours of free general admission annually — provided in recognition of taxpayer support for the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD)-- will also continue at the Museum.

Perhaps we could provide taxpayers money for some cutting edge emissions reduction companies rather than from failing banks and auto companies.

Samsung gets to keep the profits provided by Ontario Taxpayers (Green Energy does NOT, can not make money, so the profits are provided), AND Ontario sells off Green generated power at less than the cost of production to jurisdictions outside of Ontario and Canada.

(4) the taxpayers who finance the justice system whereat the legal profession, including benchers, earn an income that is considerably better than the average income of taxpayers, but the majority of those taxpayers can not have a lawyer who can provide legal advice services at reasonable cost.

Meanwhile, these four types of damage caused by the problem are getting worse: (1) to the population in that there are many thousands of people whose lives have been damaged for lack of legal services; (2) to the courts in that they are being clogged, as judges have warned, by high percentages of self - represented litigants, because their cases move much more slowly than those that have lawyers; (3) to the legal profession in that it is shrinking and is predicted to have a very negative future of contracting and of law firms failing; and, (4) to legal aid organizations because it is politically very unwise for governments to fund them better with taxpayers» money, to enable them to provide free legal services to more poor people, while the majority of the taxpayers can not obtain legal services for themselves at reasonable cost.

But, what we know now from many, many studies is that the cost of providing that lawyer is far less than the consequences that are visited on taxpayers when that person does not have a lawyer.

In a clever analogy, Morgan says that «LSUC no more administers an «articling program» or provides a «service» for licensees than Canada Revenue Agency administers a «taxation program» or provides a «service» for taxpayers.

; (4) taxpayers would not have to pay for a justice system that provides lawyers a good place to earn a living but doesn't provide affordable legal services for those taxpayers; (5) the problem wouldn't be causing more damage in one day than all of the incompetent and unethical lawyers have caused in the whole of Canada's history (6) the legal profession would be expanding instead of contracting; because, (7) if legal services were affordable, lawyers would have more work than they could handle because people have never needed lawyers more; (8) law schools would be expanding their enrolments instead of being urged to contract them; (9) the problem would not be causing serious & increasing damage to the population, the courts, the legal profession, and to legal aid organizations because their funding varies inversely with the cost of legal services for taxpayers who finance legal aid's free legal services; (10) there would be a published LSUC text that declares the problem to be its problem and duty to solve it, and accurately defines the problem; (11) Canada would not have a seriously «legally crippled» population and constitution - the Canadian Charter of Rights an Freedoms is a «paper tiger» without the help of a lawyer; (12) Canada's justice system might again be «the envy of the world»; (13) the public statements of benchers would not show that they don't understand the cause of the problem and haven't tried to understand it; (14) LSUC's webpage, «Your Legal Bill - To High?»

There are other federal laws than PIPEDA that provide for the use of electronic communications, at least between the citizen / taxpayer and the federal government itself.

(2) being content to have the victims continue to pay for a justice system from which the legal profession earns much more than do those taxpayers earn, but LSUC will not perform its duties, as required by s. 4.2 of Ontario's Law Society Act, to provide those taxpayers with an affordable lawyer, and its members with the innovations that enable the production of affordable legal services;

Section 87A, as per the Fiscal Year 2017 - 18, provides taxpayers with an income tax rebate of Rs. 2,500, provided the total income is more than Rs. 3, 50,000.

Unfortunately «ridiculous» also describes CREA trying to fight a legal battle against an opponent with bottomless pockets especially when those opponents» pockets are our own as taxpayers CREA, the provincial organizations, and now it seems the boards appear to be more interested in finding new ways to extract funds from REALTORS ® as our membership shrinks, with the goal of self preservation rather than providing value and constraint instep with the financial challenges the average agent faces in today's markets.

This exception provides that if the business owner has taxable income of less than $ 157,500 (for single taxpayers) or $ 315,000 (for couples filing jointly), then the personal service restriction will not apply.