Sentences with phrase «as taxpayers»

Both parties are to blame, as well as taxpayers who have failed to demand more responsible conduct of their legislators.

In other words, the same rules apply to cryptocurrency investors as taxpayers who trade stocks and other securities.

Her findings can help lead the way for future improvements in other cities and countries, and help save the feral cat population as well as taxpayer money.

And we all benefit as taxpayers because it pumps money into the economy.

If a property is sold within one year of its purchase, the gain is characterized as short - term and taxed at the same marginal rate as the taxpayer's other ordinary income.

While in legal terms a trust is a relationship not a legal entity, trusts are treated as taxpayer entities for the purposes of tax administration.

It is in your best interest as a taxpayer to use it.

The ready availability of data from sources as disparate as taxpayer reporting, social media accounts, and even satellite pictures of the planet are poised to revolutionize business and tax transparency.

He said those lawmakers who bought property years ago have seen it appreciate in value as taxpayers have contributed to paying their mortgages.

You know who I represent most of all, and who you should be concerned with as a taxpayer most of all?

Thus, at least for short term gains, the tax rates are the same as the taxpayer's ordinary income.

Your goal as a taxpayer should be to take full advantage of every tax credit and deduction that you qualify for.

The last sentence is important as far as taxpayers are concerned; it isn't $ 3 added on top of your normal tax return.

White's largest contributions were $ 2,750 from a New York lobbyist group known as Taxpayers for an Affordable NY, several real estate agents and a Brooklyn nonprofit called Simcha 2009, according to the CFB.

«I felt like they weren't as taxpayer friendly.

More to the point, when these shelters exist to serve as a taxpayer funded bailee for people's lost animals, a place where the community which funds the shelter can go to search for their lost pets, the claim that it is onerous to mandate that the shelter do something as central and essential to that purpose as posting a photo of impounded pets on a website for public review is, in fact, proof that sensible laws to ensure that common sense lifesaving measures are taken are needed.

Yet these incentives may be seen as taxpayer - funded «handouts» to industry, threatening political support.

Groups — including the American Civil Liberties Union, Americans for Separation of Church and State, and a local organization known as Taxpayers for Public Education — had also challenged the program on other grounds, which courts rejected.

Appealing an IRS Installment Agreement (IA) is within your rights as a taxpayer if it is denied or rejected, terminated, or proposed for termination.

Now critics are saying that the Democrats» pro-Malloy mailings will undo the original promise of the public financing system — because the special - interest money will flow into the state campaign through the party's «federal account» even as taxpayers continue to pay for campaigns that were supposed to be kept «clean» of contractors» money.

As a taxpayer of Blair County, Pennsylvania, I have already contributed my share to this trial.

«Mr. DiNapoli is supposed to be serving as the taxpayers» watchdog, not as the lapdog of the ACORN - inspired WFP.

While Mark has acted as the taxpayers» watchdog and called out wasteful spending and irresponsible actions, he has also lead the charge to make a more efficient county government by pushing for the creation of Erie County's prescription drug discount program and the adoption of electronic payments for vendors saving the County and those that do business with the County time and money.

Overhauling the state's massive pension program has become a political priority in recent years as taxpayer costs exploded.

The plaintiffs, he ruled, could not show the scholarships harm public schools, and could not challenge the program as taxpayers because it is not funded through the state budget.

Unlike the emissions - permit case, the recipient of the tax wants the payer to dispense the funds just as much as the taxpayer dislikes dispensing the funds.

The US as a country and American citizens as both taxpayers and donors to charities spend more than the rest of the world combined.

It's a key number as a taxpayer's AGI determines eligibility for credits and various deductions elsewhere on the tax return.

Or is it actually about making up revenue lost to an eroding tax base as taxpayers seek legal ways to avoid what they see as punitive tax rates?

The 25 percent tax rate for pass - throughs is particularly galling, because it has no principle at all behind it, and will be the subject of widespread abuse, as taxpayers maneuver to squeeze their incomes into the pass - through business box.

Big financial firms started curtailing year - end bashes in 2008 as taxpayer bailouts, populist outrage and weak profits created an environment where lavish celebrations were frowned upon.

For instance, in a similar step - transaction - doctrine issue with partial 1035 annuity exchanges and subsequent liquidations (which allowed annuity owners to get more favorable treatment in the multi-step process than could have been obtained if treated as a whole), the IRS ultimately declared in Revenue Procedure 2008 - 24 that as long as the taxpayer waited at least 12 months between the 1035 exchange and the subsequent liquidation, it would be allowed.

As a result, under current, pre-GOP tax bill law the only taxpayers able to double - dip are filers precluded from taking the state and local tax deduction, such as taxpayers subject to the alternative minimum tax.

«I couldn't be happier that the city is choosing to stand up for its property rights,» Spitz said, «and I'm speaking as a taxpayer.»

Saying he was at the meeting as a taxpayer, not a commissioner, Shor said, «If this Park Board decides tonight to go ahead and install a new playground at MacArthur School without the school district's financial help, then they will be doing an injustice to the entire community.»

If a parent can provide a lunch for his or her child, why as a taxpayer am I asked to pay $ 2.25?

The law provides additional benefits for taxpayers as all taxpayers are now allowed to determine and pay taxes based on their own estimates; carry forward losses and take account of losses on the disposal of capital assets.

Further, Tesla, Elon Musk's OTHER huge corporate gravy train welfare cyclone of pretend tech «success» hasn't earned a single DIME in over ten years it's been around but as long as the taxpayers foot your «success» it; s all good right?

Matthew led the «No» campaign against the Alternative Vote in the 2011 referendum and founded groups as diverse as the TaxPayers» Alliance and civil liberties campaign Big Brother Watch.

Republicans, including the party's gubernatorial nominee in 2014, Rob Astorino, have criticized the ad spending as a taxpayer - supported campaign to burnish Cuomo's economic record.