Sentences with phrase «board rate cuts»

At this point, across - the - board rate cuts will be in effect, as well as a doubled child tax credit and a nearly doubled standard deduction (the latter two provisions offsetting the elimination of personal exemptions from the individual income tax).

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Australian shares were down 0.6 % after the Reserve Bank of Australia's policy board decided to cut its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to an all - time low of 1.50 %, as expected.

In 2001, Republicans addressed the politics of taxes by making big cuts across the board: an expanded child credit for low and moderate earners, a new lower tax bracket at the bottom, plus cuts in regular and capital income - tax rates for those at the top.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act went into effect at the beginning of the year, touting a reduction in federal income rates across the board.

In response, the Reserve Bank Board cut the cash rate target.

I advocated LOUDLY at the board that we needed to cut our burn rate.

Another announcement that will benefit Greater Vancouver Board of Trade Members is today's affirmation that the Provincial Government will cut the small business corporate income tax rate from 2.5 per cent to 2 per cent, which will make B.C. the second-most competitive tax environment for small business in the country.

In 2012 Nebraska cut income tax rates across the board and adjusted the tax brackets in an effort to make the system more equitable.

Counterpunch Against the recommendations of most economists and even the Financial Times of London, the Federal Reserve Board yesterday cut its discount rate by yet another quarter - point, to just 2 %.

The issue agenda component is that the Republican strategy of across - the - board cuts on marginal tax rates (to pick one example) has limited appeal.

Senate Republicans, meanwhile, want an across - the - board tax rate cut of 25 percent.

«It's not lowering taxes or creating incentives for one business over another, or one section of business over another, it's cutting the tax rate across the board for property tax owners and for businesses in New York state.»

«Every New Yorker is paying a lower tax rate than the day I took office that's called an across - the - board tax cut.»

He says across - the - board cuts in the corporate tax rate, incomes taxes, and workers» compensation costs, among other things, would ensure that any current or new businesses really do remain in the state.

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«No studio is going to take a big film to the ratings board and have them say, «Go back and cut that dismemberment or that decapitation,» or you land «in jail» with an NC - 17.

I agree that poorly prepared teachers is one cause of the high dropout rate, but as with most problems, many causes exist, including an anti-intellectual culture that values over-paid athletes and celebrities w / no obvious talent (e.g. Kim Kardashian); parents who think all their male children will grow up to be Yankees so never put books in the kids» hands; pseudo education reformers who sell a narrative that a first year teacher is no different from a veteran with a grad degree and thirty years teaching experience, administrators who hire based on coaching rather than teaching, school boards that cut library programs rather than sports, etc..

Instead of going with the cut score that was adopted by the SBAC coordinating committee last November, an unfair rating system that was adopted with the support of Governor Dannel Malloy's representatives, the Washington State Board of Education choose a new «passing» level, «where about as many kids are expected to pass the exams as passed the state's previous tests.»

In August 2007 the Board of Governors cut the primary discount rate from 6.25 % to 5.75 %, reducing the spread over the fed funds rate from 1 percentage point to 0.5, where it currently sits (from early 2008 to 2010 the spread was 0.25 percentage points).

You have probably heard about some of the major changes that take effect beginning in 2018 — a big cut to the corporate tax rate, lower marginal rates across the board, and a larger standard deduction.

However, in Spring 2017, Charles Schwab initiated a price war, resulting in all four of the largest brokers in the United States (Charles Schwab, Fidelity, TD Ameritrade, E * TRADE) cutting commission rates across the board.

According to the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR), if equal pay for women happened immediately across the board, it would result in an annual $ 447.6 billion gain nationally for women and their families, cutting the poverty rate in half.

The first part of the FAIR initiative would be an across - the - board cut of 20 percent for auto insurance rates paid by Michigan drivers.

One argument members of Congress might make in favor of paring back the MID is that they need that tax cut in exchange for lowering tax rates, which would help households across the board.

Policies like 20 percent across - the - board cuts in tax rates, sensible regulation, and open markets to stimulate trade will help all Americans achieve their economic goals, including buying a home.»

We need policies such as 20 percent across - the - board cuts in tax rates, sensible regulation, and open markets that create a growing economy.

New federal mortgage rules are creating a «policy ceiling» that will curb Toronto's soaring house prices this year, measures that would be partly offset by another Bank of Canada rate cut, the local real estate board said in a new forecast.

One argument members of Congress might make in favor of paring back MID is that they need that tax cut in exchange for lowering tax rates, which would help households across the board.