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Wynne also appointed a panel last month to examine those proposals, which included a jump in the HST, a five - cent - a-litre regional gas tax, a $ 350 - million - a-year business parking levy and $ 100 million a year in development charges.

Excluding items, the company reported earnings of 78 cents per share, which included a 13 - cent impact from tax cuts signed into law by U.S. President Donald Trump late last year.

The Munk Debates website has announced that the «Pros» managed to add 12percentage points to their portion of the opinion pie, as 70 per cent of those polled after the debate last night decided that we should indeed, tax the rich (more).

Excluding the tax benefit and other one - time items, its adjusted profit increased marginally to $ 304 million or 54 cents per share, up from $ 303 million or 53 cents per share in last year's third quarter.

If the Conservatives hadn't touched the federal corporate tax rate when they took office in 2006 — if they'd kept it at 21 per cent instead of lowering it to 15 per cent — government revenues would be $ 13 billion higher, the Canadian Labour Congress argued in a paper last January.

As economist Andrew Jackson explains, Canadians with income over $ 200,000 took over 85 per cent of this nearly $ 7 - billion tax break last year.

The proposals from the presidential campaign, reiterated last week by President - elect Donald Trump's choice for Treasury secretary, will massively favour the top 1 per cent of income earners, threaten an explosive rise in federal debt, complicate the tax code and do little if anything to spur growth.

But a year after its launch last April, industry observers remain unconvinced that Ontario's 15 per cent non-resident speculation tax had the right target in its crosshairs and, home buyers and sellers — caught mid-transaction by the ensuing plunge in home values — say the government hasn't even acknowledged the casualties caused by its manipulation of the market.

The further tightening of regulations came after Beijing last Friday slapped a 11.9 per cent tax on goods bought through foreign websites.

After a 12 per cent slump in earnings before interest and tax in the June - half last year, group EBIT edged up 0.1 per cent to $ 316.9 million.

10.50 am: Agricultural asset manager Rural Funds Group announced a net profit after tax of $ 20.1 million, up 133 per cent from last year.

The Victorian dairy group — Australia's fourth - biggest dairy processor collecting 900 million litres of milk per annum — said on Friday it anticipates earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation for the six months to 31 December to surge 100 per cent, compared to the EBITDA of $ 29.3 million reported for the same period last year.

Mondelez Australia, which is shrinking Cadbury chocolate bars to cut costs, increased profit by 43 per cent last year after slashing expenses and booking a $ 30 million tax credit.

Woolworths reported last week that earnings before interest and tax for the Australian food and liquor division, which accounted for 66 per cent of sales in the half, grew 6.3 per cent to $ 1.49 billion - nearly doubling the earnings growth of the overall business.

After last week's vote in Tampa, where a half - cent increase in the Hillsborough County sales tax was approved to help underwrite a new stadium, it's looking more and more as if the NFL, which has promised loyal Cleveland fans a team for the 1999 season, will be delivering an expansion club rather than an existing franchise to that city.

In Dolton, where the Park District hasn't had an increase in its tax rate since 1927, a 15 - cent increase will be sought for the third time in the last couple of years to help offset the cost of operating the new recreation center.

And in Dolton, where the Park District hasn't had an increase in its tax rate since its inception in 1927, a 15 - cent increase is being sought for the third time in the last couple of years to help offset the cost of operating a new recreation center.

Last year the Park District was rebuffed by the voters, when it asked for an increase of 10 cents per $ 100 of assessed valuation in the General Tax Fund.

Glen Ellyn «s tax rate dropped 35 cents per $ 100 of equalized assessed valuation in the rates issued last week by county officials.

New York Gov. David Paterson has called for a one - cent - per - ounce tax on sugar - sweetened beverages, while Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter last week proposed a two - cent - per - ounce tax on sugary beverages.

Last year, the estimated tax rate for that issue alone was.056 cents per $ 100 of assessed valuation.

The Park Board held a committee of the whole meeting Tuesday to kick off its educational campaign for the 4 - cent tax increase it decided to put on the ballot last month.

Presenting the 2017 budget to Parliament last year, Finance Minister Ken Ofori - Atta announced that government had abolished a number of taxes including the 5 per cent VAT on real estate cost.

The Local Government Association (LGA) maintained just one per cent of council tax arrears cases ended in court or had bailiffs seizing goods and bankruptcy orders were a last resort.

The state Assembly last month unanimously approved the bill to end sales taxes on feminine hygiene products, which can add.88 cents to an $ 11 pack of 50 tampons.

One important moment came in last year's pre-Budget report, when Darling announced a plan to bring in a new 45 per cent rate of income tax on earnings above # 150,000 a year in 2011.

Labour are seen slipping five points to 26 per cent, suggesting a collapse in support for the government following last week's U-turn on the 10p income tax starting rate.

But just last year, when Mayor Bill de Blasio proposed taxing them 5 cents each as a way to discourage public use, Cuomo dismissed the idea.

The Democrat - controlled Legislature last year raised the gasoline tax from 21 cents to 24 cents a gallon and indexed the tax to inflation.

New Jersey schools were also less restrained than New York's this year: Last month, Jersey districts were seeking average tax levy increases of of 4.8 per - cent — half again as high as the average in New York this week.

Gordon Brown's last budget as chancellor scrapped the 10 per cent «starting rate» of tax, which was paid on the first # 2,230 of income, and cut the basic rate of tax from 22 per cent to 20 per cent.

Last year, economist Marc Lee at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, a non-profit organisation in Ottawa, Canada, analysed data from the collection of a carbon tax in British Columbia, and concluded that the top 1 per cent of households have carbon emissions three times the provincial average.

Fashion sales up but future looks gloomy (Times Online) «Sales of clothes, shoes and textiles were 9.5 per cent higher than in April last year, the biggest annual rise since July last year... Analysts said that retailers would struggle to keep up the momentum as households faced sluggish earnings growth and political uncertainty as well as tax rises and spending cuts.»

After moving dramatically to abolish property taxes as a source of funding for the schools, lawmakers last year decided to give voters a choice for replacing the lost revenues: either a two - cent sales - tax increase, to be considered in a March 15 referendum, or an income - tax hike, which will go into effect automatically if the sales - tax rise is rejected.

The Republican - majority New Jersey legislature last week voted to override Gov. James J. Florio's veto of a bill rolling back the state sales tax from 7 cents to 6 cents.

A state appeals court in Sacramento, Calif., last month upheld a trial court ruling that a 0.25 - cent hike in the sales tax enacted in 1991 to support San Francisco's schools and community colleges is invalid, opening the way for city businesses to seek refunds.

The California legislature last week approved a quarter - cent increase in the state sales tax to generate relief funds for the Bay Area earthquake.

ZRE did distribute capital gains of just over four cents a share last year, which investors would have had to pay tax on even if they did not sell anything.

According to the CRA, 8.6 per cent of Canadians who filed their tax returns last year did so after the April 30 deadline, triggering penalties, interest and in Schaefer's case, warning letters, phone calls and even his missing returns completed for him against his will by the federal government agency.

Home sales in Vancouver began to dip before the 15 per cent tax on foreign buyers was implemented in August, but those declines have accelerated since, plunging nearly 39 per cent last month compared with October 2015.

A ministry statement says that on July 29, the last business day before property transactions could be registered before the new tax took effect, 55 per cent of all residential property deals in Metro Vancouver involved foreign nationals.

Last month was the second month that a 15 per cent tax applied to foreign buyers of property in the city.

It's the last year to benefit from a marginal tax rate with a high of 29 per cent federally.

A recent survey found more people want to do their own taxes this year than did in 2017, with 54 per cent planning to file themselves compared to 41 per cent who said they did so last year.

Figures from the B.C. government show a drop in real estate transactions in the Vancouver area after the provincial government brought in a 15 per cent tax on foreign buyers last August.

VICTORIA — About three per cent of residential real estate transactions last month in Metro Vancouver involved foreign buyers, a decline of more than 10 percentage points since the B.C. government intervened with a new tax.

The figures capture the last month in which foreign property buyers were not subject to a 15 per cent tax implemented Tuesday by the B.C. government.

When George Osborne, the Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer, revoked the 50 - per - cent tax rate last month in his third budget in two years, he reported that the Treasury had broken even in the experiment — or had almost broken even.

For high - income earners living in Alberta, whose tax rates have increased dramatically since last year, the impact on their take home pay this month will be much more severe as Alberta's top federal / provincial combined marginal rate went from 40.25 per cent in 2015 to 48 per cent in 2016.

Between federal and provincial tax changes, the combined marginal tax rate for Albertans in the top bracket is rising to 48 per cent in 2016, from 40.25 per cent last year.