Sentences with phrase «break to encourage»

It's an additional tax break to encourage low - income families to invest money for retirement.

[132] Together with Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls, Miliband also promoted a «five - point plan for jobs and growth» aimed at helping the UK economy, involving extending the bonus tax on banks pioneered by Alistair Darling, bringing forward planned long - term investment to help reduce unemployment, cutting the rate of VAT from 20 % back to 17.5 %, cutting VAT on home improvements to 5 % for a temporary one - year period, and instigating a one - year National Insurance break to encourage employers to hire more staff.

You wrote in your blog yesterday that this fiscal cliff legislation actually includes a tax break to encourage angel investment in new companies?

Robert Pasinella, executive director of the Rensselaer County Industrial Development Agency, which awards tax breaks to encourage economic growth, told The Alt on Monday that he had had a preliminary discussion with Bryce about a potential incentive package related to the building, but had said that any financial assistance would depend on dollars invested and jobs created and that he'd need to see the project.

Robert Pasinella, executive director of the Rensselaer County Industrial Development Agency, which awards tax breaks to encourage economic growth, told

In a speech to the London Business School on Monday, Balls will also reveal he is looking at two new tax breaks to encourage companies to invest in the UK for the long term.

Meanwhile, both the Liberals and the NDP have floated the idea of tax breaks to encourage construction of rental housing, which might take some pressure off house prices.

Not exact matches

For example, in some places, including Canada, tax breaks are effective at encouraging more spending on research and development; in other countries, direct subsidies appear to be a better approach.

The technique encourages users to work for 25 minutes, then take five - minute breaks in between.

Fishkin didn't break his silence and seek help until he was encouraged to by his close friend, Brad Feld.

Ask them why they prefer not taking breaks, and let them know it's acceptable and encouraged to take advantage of the outlined acceptable breaks in your organization.

In other words, it encourages the smallest companies to expand and hire employees — thus making a bigger contribution to the economy — in order to take advantage of the tax break.

, fitness breaks legitimized in the work schedule, requiring all employees to take a substantial part of their vacation time off, turning off email while on vacation, providing paid parental leave for new parents and encouraging both mothers and fathers to take advantage with no adverse career impact, paid time off for volunteer activities, and more.

One way to counteract this would be to provide standing work spaces or encourage periodic breaks to move around and stretch.

I encourage my employees to take a quick break if they think it will help them feel recharged.

Hauppauge, for example, quickly put out a statement after the FCC news broke to say that it supports the FCC's proposal and that it will «encourage innovative developers to create products which will lower consumer costs, increase the selection of content available to consumers and allow new applications for TV.»

Offering your team unlimited vacation days — and taking them yourself — encourages not just staycations or a lazy beach break but also more experiential travel to faraway places that can open up a person to new ways of thinking.

Weak ties — or new connections — are «your ticket to a whole new social world,» says Menon, who encourages people to break their social habits by making life a little more inefficient and straying from their daily routines.

Small - business owner: To encourage the government to hire more Canadians as part of the Economic Action Plan, the budget proposes a hiring credit, which offers a one - year Employment Insurance break of up to $ 1,000 for firms with premiums below $ 10,001 in 201To encourage the government to hire more Canadians as part of the Economic Action Plan, the budget proposes a hiring credit, which offers a one - year Employment Insurance break of up to $ 1,000 for firms with premiums below $ 10,001 in 201to hire more Canadians as part of the Economic Action Plan, the budget proposes a hiring credit, which offers a one - year Employment Insurance break of up to $ 1,000 for firms with premiums below $ 10,001 in 201to $ 1,000 for firms with premiums below $ 10,001 in 2010.

Or, find other ways to encourage employees to interact and stay active, like game tables (foosball, ping - pong, pool, etc.), yoga time or meditation breaks.

Earlier this summer, the premiers of Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan encouraged the other provinces to follow their lead in breaking down provincial barriers to trade in goods and labour, barriers that impose real costs on the economy.

You can boost creativity among your employees and prevent creativity block by encouraging teams to break from their usual routine.

Efti goes on to offer founders a list of suggestions to ensure that the people they hire can deal with the ambiguity and messiness of start - up life, including stressing this fact in interviews, encouraging employees to take ownership of their ideas, breaking down barriers between teams, and giving new hires some skin in the game in the form of equity.

Keep your office atmosphere fresh by encouraging colleagues and staff to take regular breaks, converse, and meet new people outside of their departments.

What's different about Twitter's feature is that it will also be able to suggest other pictures for you to alter to encourage users to «participate in trending conversations and breaking news» and even show you «how other users from around the world have edited the same photo.»

We cater in lunch every day to encourage the team to take a true break and eat together, family style.

Complement it by encouraging employees to use their breaks (or before / after work) to hit the gym, and you're giving them a reason to up their health.

While shifting expectations about connecting to work after - hours and making it easier to take vacations is a great place to start improving your workforce's work - life balance, encouraging people to take breaks during the workday to exercise, meditate or eat a healthy meal is also highly effective.

In 2015, I encourage companies to break this cycle.

Furniture maker Turnstone toured the country's coolest offices for ideas on how to design spaces that encourage creativity and collaboration (without breaking the bank).

The news came as a relief to many who worried that tax breaks that encourage retirement savings were on the chopping block.

Documents suggest that Uber and Lyft may be encouraging drivers to break the rules.

This means managers should encourage breaks, whether it's a stroll around the block or a face - to - face interaction.

Over the weekend, after news broke that Cambridge Analytica had harvested data on as many as 50 million Facebook users, Facebook's communications team encouraged Mr. Stamos to tweet in defense of the company, but only after it asked to approve Mr. Stamos's tweets, according to two people briefed on the incident.

Your teacher is there to encourage you, support you, and challenge you, but only YOU can decide to break down your mental barrier and push yourself past what you thought were your limits!

Betting among veteran observers from banks and think tanks is that he will lean this time toward selective tax breaks and other measures designed to encourage companies to hire and invest, rather than another big round of direct spending.

With a view to encouraging the market for recycling end - of - life solar modules before they begin to pile up, «the solar industry is creating programs to train commercial recycling companies to understand what's in manufacturers» products and how to break them down,» said Evelyn Butler of the U.S. Solar Energy Industries Association.

To encourage people to bike, we need a simple solution that offers the option to travel without breaking a sweat, and not worry about showering, changing, and parking — that's where the LIFEbike comes in,» says founder and CEO Henry ChonTo encourage people to bike, we need a simple solution that offers the option to travel without breaking a sweat, and not worry about showering, changing, and parking — that's where the LIFEbike comes in,» says founder and CEO Henry Chonto bike, we need a simple solution that offers the option to travel without breaking a sweat, and not worry about showering, changing, and parking — that's where the LIFEbike comes in,» says founder and CEO Henry Chonto travel without breaking a sweat, and not worry about showering, changing, and parking — that's where the LIFEbike comes in,» says founder and CEO Henry Chong.

Instead, Maher's team came up with «Wellness Adventures,» which encourages employees to pick and enjoy «fun» activities during their lunch break — such as laser tag, basketball, golf, or even trampolining — to make fitness feel a little more like schoolyard recess than another chore to fit into the day.

When that story first broke, I wrote that the Wells way to do business — perverse incentives that encourage underpaid employees to cheat their fellow woman and man — is common.

It may have been intended to encourage more angel investment by the end of the year, but most of the folks I know who've thought about it agree that, if spurring additional angel and startup investment was the desired impact, the break would really need to be in place permanently, or for a longer period of time.

In social policy, the Party is committed to breaking the cycle of poverty by developing a «living wage» policy that is sufficient to allow workers to support their families; make changes to the welfare system to encourage people on social assistance to move beyond poverty, such as allowing some benefits to remain until they are firmly established in the workplace; and reviewing the housing component of Alberta Works social assistance to bring it in line with the current reality of the Alberta housing market.

To encourage investment on the island, Congress gave huge tax breaks to US businesses with operations in Puerto Rico starting in 197To encourage investment on the island, Congress gave huge tax breaks to US businesses with operations in Puerto Rico starting in 197to US businesses with operations in Puerto Rico starting in 1976.

Whether you are a business owner or a student loan borrower, consider contacting your elected officials to encourage them to help borrowers and employers alike by passing bills that provide tax breaks for student loan repayment benefits.

The supervisor encouraged Coppedge to limit his discussions about topics like religion and politics to periods like lunch breaks, according to the response.

Wow here's what I have to say to that, its a great move might finally let ppl really be truthful to them selves and come out, there has been soo many incidents where pastor's gay, sneaking round with men eventhough they're married (no offense to pastors that may read this), lots of marriages have been broken cus of that, soo maybe this may encourage them to be open nice move obama

We have to support, encourage and give breaks to our staff in a way that perhaps the system at the moment is not allowing.»

But both those whom they encouraged to go and those who would stay home disliked the break - up of the family and the larger community entailed in such a change.

Whereas The Broken Covenant was the voice of a prophet crying in the wilderness, alternately denouncing and lamenting for his people, Habits and its successor volume The Good Society, written by the same five authors and to be published in 1991, speak as one group of citizens to our fellow citizens, criticizing some things but also encouraging, offering examples of effective citizenship and church membership, and looking forward, if not with optimism, at least with hope.

It is the hope that encourages Christians to enter into broken and wounded places, with acts of friendship and love.