Sentences with phrase «as a cap on»

That's because the AHCA actually maintains Obamacare's «essential health benefit» provisions requiring insurers to cover services such as maternity and mental health care, as well as a cap on how much consumers can be made to pay out of pocket in any given year.

Second, insofar as the sequester is acting as a cap on overall economic growth, it is, in some measure, putting a lid on private sector hiring as well.

The UK government remains committed to austerity measures such as the cap on public sector pay; but in a speech on 20 June 2017 Chancellor Philip Hammond acknowledged public discontent with austerity, and suggested the government would consider increased borrowing to invest in economic growth.

Cuomo said that he wanted a special session to tackle sweeping ethics and campaign - finance reform changes, including the public financing of political campaigns as well as a cap on outside pay and banning employment of state lawmakers from firms that have business before the state.

The group also worries about what was described as a cap on video lottery money dedicated to the tracks.

The document detailing the parallels between past and present Tory manifestos shows an alarming number of policies - such as the cap on immigration and pledges to cut inheritance tax - that differ little, if at all, from those promised in 2005 and 2001.

Cuomo was endorsed by the lobby group in 2010 and embraced in his first term a number of key economic measures such as a cap on property tax increases and has limited spending in the state to under 2 percent in his budgets.

Rep. Melissa Ziobron, the ranking Republican on the appropriations committee, said she was proud of the budget agreement, which contains many ideas the GOP has long pushed such as a cap on spending and bonding long - term capital projects.

Regulation of the private funding of political parties, such as caps on political donations, can also help promote gender equality because women usually have less access to private campaign money.

States that offer less than Florida's 100 % tax credit should also account for the impact of the deduction of non-credit eligible portion of the donation, as well as the caps on deductions.

When more details of the new exam were leaked at the weekend, Labour said it supported more rigorous exams but only if they do not act as a cap on aspiration.

Additionally, because the rate «floors» meant to protect market - linked CDs from losses are rarely set as high as the caps on their gains, bad stocks will harm performance more than good stocks will help.

Manulife has a cap on how low your premuims can go as well as a cap on how high they can go.

This doesn't happen often, but Activision has delivered the goods with a Skylanders Trap Team Soda Springs level playthrough video as a cap on their Comic - Con reveals.

An inversion acts as a cap on the upward movement of air from the layers below.

Importantly, in this decision Morgan J rejected completely the hitherto well established principle, applied for years by the Supreme Court Costs Office that an estimate operates as a cap on a client's liability to his solicitors at the estimate plus a margin.

Following changes effective February 1, 2014 to the SABS 2010, the concept of «economic loss» now acts not only as one of the requirements for benefit entitlement, but also as a cap on the quantum of benefits payable for accidents on or after the transition date where care is rendered by a non-professional service provider.

However, the amendments incorporated restrictions such as a cap on damages and rules that required the losing side to pay the legal fees and expenses of the winning side, to discourage a tumultuous increase in suits similar to what has happened in the U.S..

To serve as a cap on the wealthy and make them pay for something that would normally go untaxed.

Not exact matches

A free market guy wouldn't favour a cap on cellphone roaming fees, as hinted in the speech from the throne.

NEW YORK, April 23 - Global benchmark Brent crude turned positive in volatile trade on Monday as it jockeyed between downward pressure after Iran dashed hopes that OPEC would extend its production cap pact and support on fears that U.S. sanctions could dampen Iran's output.

Bitcoin, the world's largest cryptocurrency by market cap, traded as low as $ 7,676.52 on Thursday, the lowest since February 8, according to CoinDesk data.

Tax specialists and policy makers speculate that a possible plan would allow a capped amount to be tax - free on the sale of your principal residence with any proceeds over this amount to be taxed as capital gains in your tax bracket at the time of sale.

More defensive securities, such as consumer staples, large caps and fixed income, perform the best on the way down, but they don't rise as fast in a recovery.

The 2015 Liberal election platform had a proposal to limit the benefits of the 50 % employee stock option deduction by placing a cap of $ 100,000 on annual eligible stock option gains but this was dropped after intense lobbying by startups in the tech and resource industry who rely heavily on non-cash compensation such as stock options to attract much needed, specialized talent to their firms.

As an example, a cap of $ 500,000 in tax - free capital gains on any principal residence means that a home sold for $ 1 million that was purchased for $ 100,000 in 1985 say, would have $ 400,000 taxed at the owner's tax rate at the time of the sale (about 35 % for the average middle class Canadian).

In the weeks following February's 10 % correction, Goldman highlighted small - caps as one of the two best stock market bets, on an investment - factor basis.

Gold prices rose on Monday as the dollar slipped, but gains are expected to be capped ahead of inflation data from the U.S. this week.

Second, Suzuki highlights the new tax law as having an outsize positive impact on small - caps.

And while not every out - of - pocket health - care expense counts as deductible, long - term care insurance premiums do, with age - based caps on how much you can deduct yearly (see chart below).

McElaney tells the salespeople he hopes to snag from bigger companies, «There's no cap on what you can make and no such thing as sales territories.

In 2016 - 17 and 2017 - 18, when the salary cap will explode because of the league's new TV deal, Cousins will only be making around $ 16 million per year — well below what he'd make if he got a max contract on the open market as a free agent.

«There's definitely a cap on growth at that airport,» says Steve Silverhart of HUBS Aviation Consulting, who spent a year as ground services manager at Billy Bishop, which handled two million travellers last year.

Those payments, unlike direct salary, don't have to be reported on your personal tax forms as wages, as long as they qualified as legitimate business expenses, and remained under the IRS's per diem cap rules.

Mr. Meister is expected to announce his departure on Tuesday, capping his effort to embolden an agency once dismissed as «the watchdog that didn't bark.»

The bill's main objective — capping future government spending on healthcare at rates that won't gobble up a bigger and bigger share of national income, as well as leaving more resources for investment and entrepreneurship — is exactly what government needs to do.

His visionary project has rocketed to a market cap of nearly $ 30 billion — as high as the private valuations Airbnb and Snapchat achieved — from $ 1 billion a year ago, when Fortune first placed him on its 40 under 40 list.

This baseball cap is equipped to hold most smartphones on its brim because, as the website says, we all need at least two cameras — one for photos and one for videos.

Another beneficiary of the Tea Party wave, Mulvaney serves on the Budget Committee, and earned conservative cred as a co-author of the Republican «Cut, Cap and Balance» legislation.

He expects that, just as the Internet made digital knowledge searchable and knowable (ask the Sony executives who've been hacked or Google, which has built a $ 364.4 billion market cap on this trend), the Internet of things will make physical information searchable and digital — with all the pros and cons that entails.

(Note that I use ALL CAPS for sections like «WHAT I DO» and «WHO I WORK WITH» to help those headers stand out, since LinkedIn, as of this writing, doesn't allow you to use bold or italic text on your profile page.)

With tax laws likely changing soon, it's a good idea to follow Lackey's lead and donate before the end of the year, as one of the proposed revisions for 2013 is a cap on itemized deductions.

The news comes as bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency by market cap, smashed through a new record high price on Wednesday, reaching $ 6,600 for the first time, following news of CME's plan to launch bitcoin futures later this year.

Salesforce (crm) and HPE (hpe) are both Fortune 500 companies, ranking as the 17th and 21st largest tech companies as measured by market cap respectively, listed on the Nasdaq.

The later regulations updated the Army campaign hat, and introduced a four - button sack coat (as seen on the first sergeant above) and forage cap, often known as a kepi, for field wear.

Strike Energy's share price has been on a white knuckle ride over the last few weeks as investors desperately try to work out if it is going to be the next large cap gas producer in Australia, or fail whilst daring to create a new technical frontier in the search for coal seam gas riches.

A Google artificial intelligence program defeated a Chinese grand master at the ancient board game Go on Tuesday, a major feather in the cap for the firm's AI ambitions as it looks to woo Beijing to gain re-entry into the country.

As far as Clinton's proposal goes, she'd give companies an expense incentive to set up a profit - sharing plan by offering a tax break of 15 percent on gains shared with employees, capped at 10 percent of a worker's salarAs far as Clinton's proposal goes, she'd give companies an expense incentive to set up a profit - sharing plan by offering a tax break of 15 percent on gains shared with employees, capped at 10 percent of a worker's salaras Clinton's proposal goes, she'd give companies an expense incentive to set up a profit - sharing plan by offering a tax break of 15 percent on gains shared with employees, capped at 10 percent of a worker's salary.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia will require industrial facilities generating 50,000 tonnes or more of greenhouse gas emissions per year to report emissions under its proposed cap and trade regime, although key details such as the actual caps and their effect on consumers are yet to be released.

Nova Scotia opted for cap and trade in November 2016 as part of the federal government's push to get the provinces to set a price on carbon.