At issue in Vance's investigation is whether the mayor or his apparatchiks sought to circumvent state campaign
contribution caps by directing their political allies to write checks to upstate Democratic county committees, which do face the same donation ceilings.
Not exact matches
Much larger sums could be raised
by lifting the
cap on Social Security payroll
contributions, which is currently set at $ 118,500 per year.
Caps placed
by the plan and / or Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regulations usually limit the percentage of salary deferral
contributions.
Horner, with NYPIRG, says the testimony illustrates the need to clean up New York's campaign finance laws
by setting stricter
caps on
contributions and eliminating a loophole that allows donors to use LLCs or limited liability companies, to skirt existing donor limits.
The Assembly voted to close the LLC loophole in campaign finance laws,
cap contributions by limited liability corporations at $ 5,000 and require them to identify the individuals who make the donations in the LLC's name, and limit lawmakers» outside income to 40 percent of the annual salary of state Supreme Court justices.
However, the party argues that a
cap on individual
contributions - something proposed
by the Conservatives - would threaten its links with unions.
· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension
contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations
by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax
cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.
Increases credit to 90 % of
contribution up to $ 1 million per taxpayer; increases credit
cap in three steps to $ 300 million
by 2019.
«Every year, hundreds of donors give more money than is allowed
by state law that has highest limits of any state
capping donation size; scores of candidates fail to disclose large
contributions received in the run - up to Election Day; thousands of filings obfuscate the identity of donors or the purpose of expenditures through the inclusion of incomplete or incorrect information; and dozens of incumbent lawmakers spend campaign funds for what reasonable people would unanimously agree are non-campaign reasons,» the report found.
Investigators want to know if people were reimbursed or given cash to pass along to the campaign in their names, in an effort
by the actual donors to avoid the city's $ 4,950
cap on individual
contribution, sources said.
Investigators were spurred
by a report from the state Board of Elections» top enforcement officer, who was appointed
by de Blasio rival Gov. Andrew Cuomo, that accuses the mayor and his team of dodging
caps on
contributions and disguising donor names during the 2014 Democratic campaign.
Haughland gave Curran, who has proposed a $ 1,000
cap on
contributions by county contractors and their principals, a total of $ 10,000.
Howard Milstein's 149 LLC's: If Cuomo LLC
contribution cap passes he will «only» be able to contribute $ 745,000 via his existing LLCs Howard Milstein is a very wealthy NYC real estate developer, and major political donor, who was appointed
by Governor Cuomo to chair the board of the NYS Thruway Authority.
Real Reform: $ 5,000
cap per beneficial owner: the person, union or company who actually controls
By far the best way to close this loophole is to
cap contributions from any beneficial owner at $ 5,000 per candidate.
Many local governments, especially upstate, have been squeezed
by declining populations and an eroded industrial base coupled with a
cap on raising their property taxes as well as a spike in required pension
contributions.
He is also not bound
by contribution caps, so he can raise up to $ 3,500 per person.
Lost amid the focus on legislation passed
by the House on Wednesday to regulate soft - money «527» organizations is a provision in the bill that would lift the current
caps on party committees» coordinated
contributions to campaigns.
He said the government should abandon the 1 %
cap and instead raise the money
by imposing a
cap on tax relief for pension
contributions at # 26,000.
Although that figure seems just barely within the state's 2 percent tax
cap, the rate includes mandated payments including
contributions to the state employee retirement system that are not covered
by the 2 percent
cap.
Authorities are also examining whether fundraising efforts for Democratic state senate candidates violated campaign
contribution limit laws
by being routed to other committees, which were allowed to rake in huge donations compared to
caps on single donors directly to a candidate's campaign.
Meanwhile, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance has another panel hearing arguments that the mayor and his closest political assistants deliberately circumvented campaign finance laws in their failed 2014 effort to flip the State Senate to the Democrats,
by directing donors (many of whom also had business before the city) to funnel money into upstate party committees instead of into candidates» individual campaign accounts — thus bypassing state
contribution caps.
Horner said the testimony illustrates the need to clean up New York's campaign finance laws
by setting stricter
caps on
contributions and eliminating a loophole that allows donors to use LLCs, or limited liability companies, to skirt existing donor limits.
We first demonstrate less variability of global Pearson correlations with respect to the two chosen networks using a sliding - window approach during WM task compared to rest; then we show that the macroscopic decrease in variations in correlations during a WM task is also well characterized
by the combined effect of a reduced number of dominant
CAPs, increased spatial consistency across
CAPs, and increased fractional
contributions of a few dominant
CAPs.
With its share price down to $ 13.44 as of Friday's closing and down under $ 13.30 as of Monday morning, RIM's $ 7.04 billion market
cap or less was smaller than an $ 7.08 billion
contribution to Apple's market
cap from the App Store, as estimated
by Trefis and noted
by Brian Hall.
This feature allows you to automatically boost your
contribution by a fixed percentage every year, up to a specified
cap.
The amount of your concessional
contributions (made
by you or on your behalf) to a super fund in a financial year which is more than your concessional
contributions cap.
Deductions will not be limited
by the Adjusted Gross Income
cap on charitable
contributions or the itemized deduction phase out.
Self - employed individuals can deduct
contributions to a Simplified Employer Pension, or SEP, up to 25 % of pretax income, (20 % of net self - employment income reduced
by half of self - employment tax if you are self - employed)
capped at $ 54,000.
To determine allocation effect, we compare the average weight in each of the 11 GICS ® sectors held
by active large -
cap managers relative to the S&P 500 during the measurement period, and the sector
contribution to benchmark return as well as the portfolio return.
It also affects their ability to make non-concessional
contributions, including being able to access the bring - forward rules and it determines whether they can make extra unused concessional
contributions after 1 July 2019,
by carrying forward their unused concessional
contributions cap.
First, we evaluated the consistency of the
contribution across alternative equity styles
by examining equity portfolios oriented along value, growth, small -
cap, large -
cap, and momentum styles.
For example, a single person can purchase a qualified plan with a $ 5000 deductible; however, that person's maximum HSA
contribution would still be limited to that year's
cap (see above) for single coverage (Note: the in - network out - of - pocket max, including the deductible, for your HSA qualified policy may not can not exceed the out - of - pocket maximum allowed
by federal law.
Note: The information in this section is for fund -
capped contributions received
by your SMSF prior to 1 July 2017.
But keep in mind that the
contribution limit is
capped by your earned income: If you made only $ 5,000 for the year, you can only put in up to $ 5,000 into your IRA and Roth IRA combined.
The amount you can contribute annually to a retirement plan is generally
capped by a
contribution limit.
We quantify sea - level commitment in the baseline case
by building on Levermann et al. (10), who used physical simulations to model the SLR within a 2,000 - y envelope as the sum of the
contributions of (i) ocean thermal expansion, based on six coupled climate models; (ii) mountain glacier and ice
cap melting, based on surface mass balance and simplified ice dynamic models; (iii) Greenland ice sheet decay, based on a coupled regional climate model and ice sheet dynamic model; and (iv) Antarctic ice sheet decay, based on a continental - scale model parameterizing grounding line ice flux in relation to temperature.
They hoped to balance struggling sea level budgets
by re-analyzing and adjusting estimates of the
contributions from melting glaciers and ice
caps, thermal expansion, and the effects of dam building and groundwater extraction.
With growing concerns about the greenhouse gas balance of many types of biomass and bioenergy — as well as effects on biodiversity, land use, and competition with food production — the EU needs to get policies right
by capping the
contribution of bioenergy to renewables targets at sustainable levels, and promoting only bioenergy that is both sustainable and delivers real carbon benefits.
Act 2, including: changes to Wisconsin's product liability laws; adding Daubert standards for cases tried in Wisconsin involving expert opinion and evidence; eliminating the controversial «risk
contribution» theory created
by the Wisconsin Supreme Court in the 2005 Thomas v. Mallett decision; placing
caps on punitive damages; and reducing frivolous lawsuits
by holding parties liable for costs and fees for filing frivolous claims.
Caps on the amounts of additional capital
contributions are prudent to avoid a joint venture party being responsible for unlimited mandatory capital
contributions in the future; alternatively, the drafter can provide that additional capital
contributions may be approved
by a supermajority or unanimous vote of the board of managers / directors or the joint venture parties
He just points out the consequences of the ruling, which is that a number of students who were making enough in the summer to make a serious
contribution to their expenses would be earning less because their hours were
capped by the CA's now being applied to that work.
Planned Parenthood is a member of the Clean Missouri Coalition, an effort to reform our democracy
by banning big lobbyist gifts,
capping campaign
contributions, and improving the way we draw district lines.
Planned Parenthood is supporting Clean Missouri, a non-partisan effort to reform our democracy
by banning big lobbyist gifts,
capping campaign
contributions, and improving the way we draw legislative district lines.