Certainly, when put into the context of the overall
budget reduction in capital spending of 12 %, the cut in science's budget does not seem severe.
Assessing options and scenarios to proactively address potential significant additional
budget reductions in 2011, including one of several options listed in the current Erie County Four Year Financial Plan to balance projected funding gaps that would reduce the Library's 2011 allocation by a further 10 % ($ 2.2 million); and
To make up for a federal deficit of more than $ 400 billion, the White House has ordered most civilian research agencies to prepare for major
budget reductions in the 2006 budget, including cuts for the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.
A recent report by the Communities and Local Government Select Committee on Public Parks cited that 92 per cent of local authority parks have experienced
budget reductions in the past three years and 95 per cent of parks managers expect further reductions in the next three years.
Not exact matches
While he would have liked to have seen more investor - specific changes — «it's always nice to have more rather than less,» he says — he thinks it's unlikely we'll see any
reductions in capital gain taxes or major increases
in TFSA room until at least 2015, when the government says it can balance the
budget by.
It's a politically popular path:
In a poll released last April, the Pew Research Center asked voters whether they supported spending
reductions to 14 specific
budget areas.
Republicans struck on a Congressional
Budget Office (CBO) report that projected that Obamacare would lead to a
reduction of 2.5 million full - time equivalent jobs
in the workforce.
Republican Presidents, including Trump, have promised to balance future
budgets with gigantic
reductions in discretionary spending, a category that includes both outlays for defense, and all other areas that are voted each year (as opposed to entitlements that provide benefits guided by a fixed formula).
Through a combination of $ 1 billion from the sale of GM shares, a $ 2 billion
reduction in the contingency fund and $ 1.8 billion taken out of Employment Insurance (a holdover from
Budget 2014), the federal government was able to turn a modest deficit into a $ 1.4 billion surplus.
If that $ 3.2 billion was significantly lower than what DoD normally gets for submarines, it would take seven years for the full effect of those
budget reductions to show
in the real economy.
In the last federal
budget, Natural Resources Canada was allocated $ 2.5 million over the next two years to study regional clean energy cooperation, with the aim of identifying «the most promising electricity infrastructure projects with the potential to achieve significant greenhouse gas
reductions.»
The forecast also reflects the ongoing impacts of measures announced
in the 2012
Budget to freeze the Business Education Tax
reduction plan.
[105] On January 8, 2008, to address ongoing structural
budget issues, Governor Corzine proposed a four - part proposal including an overall
reduction in spending, a constitutional amendment to require more voter approval for state borrowing, an executive order prohibiting the use of one - time revenues to balance the
budget and a controversial plan to raise some $ 38 billion by leasing the Garden State Parkway, the New Jersey Turnpike, and other toll roads for at least 75 years to a new public benefit corporation that could sell bonds secured by future tolls, which it would be allowed to raise by 50 % plus inflation every four years beginning
in 2010.
Countries experiencing the biggest
reductions in expected growth include Brazil and India, whose economies have cooled this year; newly industrialized Asian economies, like Korea and Singapore, hit by a broader global slowdown; and Britain, struck by austerity
budgeting.
Only if the Government fully realizes its savings from the Debt
Reduction Plan Savings Target would the
budget be balanced
in 2015 - 16, but just.
Using the sensitivity analysis provided by the Department of Finance
in the April
Budget, a reduction in real economic growth of 0.6 percentage point would result in deterioration in the budget balance of approximately $ 2.5 billion in 2015
Budget, a
reduction in real economic growth of 0.6 percentage point would result
in deterioration
in the
budget balance of approximately $ 2.5 billion in 2015
budget balance of approximately $ 2.5 billion
in 2015 - 16.
We're seeing a lot of proposals
in Congress that aren't accompanied by a lot of thought or analysis of what impact a deep cut
in travel
budgets could have,» such as a
reduction in services for taxpayers and for veterans, and fewer job - related conferences.
The Update incorporates the October average private sector economic forecasts and an increased «adjustment for risk» for 2011 - 12 to 2013 - 14, as well as an increase
in employment insurance rates of only 5 cents (employee rate) for 2012, rather than the 10 cents set
in legislation As a result, the balanced
budget target is delayed from 2014 - 15 to 2016 - 17, prior to the inclusion of the Targeted Strategic and Operating Review Savings (now called «Deficit
Reduction Action Plan Saving Target»).
The required administrative savings will, therefore, result
in an offsetting
reduction in the lapse adjustment, which the Department of Finance did not take into account
in Budget 2010.
In fact, the Liberal government eventually implemented the largest income tax (personal and corporate) reduction in Canadian history in the 2001 budge
In fact, the Liberal government eventually implemented the largest income tax (personal and corporate)
reduction in Canadian history in the 2001 budge
in Canadian history
in the 2001 budge
in the 2001
budget.
There is no doubt that the expenditure
reductions undertaken
in the 1995
Budget were critical to building credibility and
in restoring market confidence
in the federal government's commitment to address the fiscal situation.
Since your government is committed to reducing taxes, why not start
in the 2015
budget with a broader and deeper
reduction in the EI rate?
Lesson # 4: «What is clear and critical for understanding the current situation is that a balanced
budget was (NOT) achieved almost entirely through
reductions in spending» (NOT) added by authors.
As tabled, the
budget had only planned $ 3 billion
in debt
reduction, plus another $ 300 million
in «remaining surplus».
Despite the unforeseen fall
in oil prices
in 2014, the Conservative government, with a lot of slight of hand (
reduction in contingency reserve, selling GM shares at fire sale prices, optimistic economic and oil price assumptions), produced a
budget that financed all of its pre-election promises, while still leaving a surplus of $ 1.4 billion
in 2015 - 16 rising to $ 4.8 billion
in 2019 - 20.
Past achievements include building the case for deficit
reduction in the 1980s and early 1990s, for consolidation of the Canada and Quebec Pension Plans
in the late 1990s, a series of shadow federal
budgets and fiscal accountability reports
in that began
in the 2000s, and work on marginal effective tax rates on personal incomes and business investment, which has laid the foundation for such key changes as sales tax reform, elimination of capital taxes, and corporate income tax rate
reductions.
Part of this
reduction could be due to the measures announced
in the March 2012
Budget while part may also be attributable to the expenditure
reductions announced
in previous
budgets.
This led to an equivalent
reduction in program spending, which became the single, most important «restraint «measure
in the
budget.
In fact, many of the descriptions are not related to the planned reductions at all, but rather to how much more money the Government has provided in past budget
In fact, many of the descriptions are not related to the planned
reductions at all, but rather to how much more money the Government has provided
in past budget
in past
budgets.
Ironically, the day prior to Mr. Flaherty's
budget, his Conservative counterpart
in the UK, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, brought down a
budget that bore many similarities to Canada's, such as its preoccupation with deficit and debt
reduction.
The required administrative savings will, therefore, result
in an offsetting
reduction in the lapse adjustment, which the Department of Finance did not take into account
in either the 2010 or 2011
Budgets.
According to the Parliamentary
Budget Officer, the
reduction in the escalator was a major factor
in the federal government achieving a sustainable fiscal framework.
The remaining $ 41 billion is
in future
budget outlays, unless congress or the president tinker with the
reduction further.
In their November 2011 Update, PBO did not include the spending reductions proposed in the 2010 budget, associated with the two - year departmental operating budget freeze, claiming that the Government had not provided enough detai
In their November 2011 Update, PBO did not include the spending
reductions proposed
in the 2010 budget, associated with the two - year departmental operating budget freeze, claiming that the Government had not provided enough detai
in the 2010
budget, associated with the two - year departmental operating
budget freeze, claiming that the Government had not provided enough detail.
The only thing the 2011
budget will likely be remembered for is that it may trigger an excuse to call an election, because of a 1.5 percentage point
reduction in the corporate tax rate; a trivial economic reason, but, for some, an important political reason.
Even if all of the spending and tax -
reduction measures announced
in the 2015
budget were cancelled — and no opposition party has yet gone so far as to promise that — that still would not be enough revenue to prevent a return to deficit.
A
reduction in the middle - income tax bracket As previously announced,
Budget 2016 confirmed that the middle class income tax bracket would be cut from 22 % to 20.5 %, starting this year.
The Government's business rate changes
in last November's
budget were appreciated, but
in the current environment, SMEs would welcome more incentives to address skills shortages or further tax
reductions.»
The
reductions are
in the order of 12 % of a $ 20 billion
budget.
Opinion: The B.C. NDP's changes
in the
budget update still fall short of what is needed for the province to meet its emissions
reduction targets
The bailout extension deal does away with further «
reductions in salaries and pensions, with measures that lead to recession and with exaggerated (primary
budget) surplus (targets),» the prime minister said.
The Saskatchewan Party government announced a 3.5 % wage
reduction to public sector employee compensation
in last year's
budget, amounting to a projected savings of $ 250 million, but that plan does not appear
in this year's
budget.
«A
reduction in gas prices and grocery deflation will help customers stretch their
budgets, but they're still trying to absorb a 2 % payroll tax cut, uncertainty over Washington, and a lack of clarity around personal health care costs that are all headwinds,» Mr. Simon said.
The planned Departmental savings
in Budget 2012 consist of two major components — «
reductions in departmental spending» and «updating defence capital funding».
Within budgetary revenues, personal income taxes were virtually unchanged, as gains
in employment income subject to tax were offset the impact of the
Budget 2016 tax
reductions.
This been accomplished
in several ways: 85 % have scaled back on their exploration and development plans; 68 % have reduced their marketing and investor relations
budget; 60 % have already begun laying off existing employees; 40 % have implemented organization - wide hiring restrictions; 34 % noted a
reduction or elimination of incentive pay; and 32 % have made salary cuts.
The 37 tariff
reductions on sporting equipment and baby clothes
in Budget 2013 received a great deal of attention.
The
reduction in spending on the environment began before the
budget of 2012, and will continue after 2015 according to the latest budgetary estimates provided by the departments and agencies concerned.
The
budget calls for tax reform that largely mirrors the House GOP's «Better Way» plan, though it does not mention much of the aspects that would pay for the changes
in «Better Way» or other ways to make up for the revenue loss from the rate
reductions it calls for.
The required
reduction in 2017 - 18 is larger than the one - year cumulative restraint measures introduced since the March 2010
Budget.