Sentences with phrase «cost taxpayers around»

It will certainly look bad on the Liberals if they do not act quickly or if their actions appear insufficient, especially that this inquiry cost the taxpayers around 45 million dollars.

The Congressional Budget Office says that federal subsidies for manufacturing and purchasing EVs will cost taxpayers around $ 7.5 billion through 2019.

This 18 % rise will cost taxpayers around # 700,000 more per year.

This is the Winter Fuel Payment, which cost taxpayers around # 2.7 bn in 2009/10.

Labour says the policy would cost the taxpayer around # 1.4 bn per year and that it would stem a decline in bus use by those within the age bracket since the Conservatives came to power.

Not exact matches

Today, as global markets nervously watch to see how much it will cost to save European banks from their willingness to make risky loans, critics around the world are calling for Hammurabi - style reforms to make sure financial institutions, not taxpayers, pay for future bad bets.

President Obama visited Iowa last August during the region - wide drought that decimated crops and cost U.S. taxpayers around $ 20 billion.

As the Institute for Fiscal Studies has pointed out, the prime minister's decision means the state pension cost to taxpayers is likely to rise from # 60 billion to around # 75 billion.

Between 1996 and 2000 the cost to the taxpayer of every # 1 raised was over # 7, while in the following five years it fell to around # 4.

Despite these and legitimate concerns that the regulations were unenforceable, raised during their passage by Tom Harris MP, they were passed and the regime came into force in January of this year at a reported cost of around # 300,000 to the taxpayer.

According to a joint report from the Department for Business, the CBI and the TUC, entitled Reps in Action the work of union representatives actually saves employers around # 1.1 billion annually by helping to resolve disputes and preventing illness and injury at work - ten times more that the # 113 million that Norman claims union representatives cost the taxpayer.

Chancellor George Osborne said in September: «This commission has tackled that big question that we face in Britain, which is how can we be a home to successful banks that compete around the world, but lend to British families and British businesses, but at the same time protecting us as taxpayers from the cost of them going wrong, and not ending up with a multi-billion pound bill when the bank collapses.»

There will be upfront costs but by using a refitted RAF Voyager instead of chartering private aircraft for each long - distance trip, we will save taxpayers around # 775,000 a year.»

And under a recent consultation document EDF would only have to pay around a fifth of the eventual cost for dealing with waste, leaving the government and the taxpayer facing the liability after the power station shuts down.

Who is it that wastes a fortune flying around on the state airplane when most of the time Amtrak would be a reasonable substitute at a cheaper cost to the taxpayers of NYS?

Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy says the change will cost taxpayers in his state around $ 10 billion, and harm the state's ability to pay for education and health care.

GOP mayoral hopeful Nicole Malliotakis filed a freedom - of - information request Wednesday demanding to know how much Mayor de Blasio's treks around the nation and the world have cost taxpayers.

When we look at food crises around the world, the citizenry and the government of the United States feel that it's in our interest to step up to the plate even if it ends up costing taxpayer money.

This reversion cost the taxpayers only two million dollars, just a little more than the original Food Pyramid which has been around since 1992, and cost the taxpayers 1.4 million inflation - adjusted dollars.

Unwanted dollar coins are piling up in Federal Reserve vaults around the country, costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.

[Among the staffers bought out: The Department of Education's in - house security staff, who were replaced by U.S. Marshals (who DeVos prefers and who walk around with her even within the Department of Education's headquarters); the Marshals, who could be helping protect the nation instead of making DeVos feel safe, will cost taxpayers $ 15 million by the end of this fiscal year.]

He said districts around the state are offering benefit packages that include health reimbursement accounts, high deductible plans, higher co-pays and on - site health clinics in partnership with health insurance companies and providers that can help reduce costs to taxpayers.

Here are a few examples: the for - profit company will install their own handpicked boards that in turn hire the company for «management,» and these fees routinely cost up to 15 % of the school's FTE; the for - profit company will demand that parents purchase supplies directly from the school itself, which is often another LLC that charges exorbitant rates for the basics; in many cases, the biggest part of the scam is one LLC (e.g. Red Apple Development, the construction arm of Charter Schools USA) will purchase land to build the school on and then turn around and charge the school (read: taxpayers) rent that is substantially higher than the going rate / property value, sometimes as high as a million dollars a year.

Moreover, as with defending job security as a cheaper way to attract decent teachers, defined - benefit pension plans have big downsides with hidden costs: They make it unappealing for a talented person to work as a teacher for just part of a career, make it hard for teachers to move around, offer huge bonuses to older teachers who don't add any special value, etc. (And this is all viewing education in isolation — committing future taxpayers to pay for pensions teachers are earning now is going to mean spending less on other priorities in the future.

Similarly, the Vignale, which will cost around # 95 or # 190 for 20 % and 40 % taxpayers respectively, marks a saving of around # 46 or # 90 over the diesel equivalent.

Taking the 3.0 TDV6 Autobiography as a company car would mean BIK rates of 37 per cent and an annual tax cost for a 40 per cent taxpayer of around # 14.5 k (# 16.5 k for a 45 per cent taxpayer).

This year the deduction is projected to cost taxpayers $ 98 billion, or around $ 800 per household, according to the White House's latest budget report.

While electric - car owners may cruise around feeling virtuous, the reality is that the electric car cuts almost no CO2, costs taxpayers a fortune, and, surprisingly, generates more air pollution than traditional gasoline cars.

And remember not only that this would contain just 20 percent of today's CO2 emissions but also this crucial difference: The oil industry has invested in its enormous infrastructure in order to make a profit, to sell its product on an energy - hungry market (at around $ 100 per barrel and 7.2 barrels per tonne that comes to about $ 700 per tonne)-- but (one way or another) the taxpayers of rich countries would have to pay for huge capital costs and significant operating burdens of any massive CCS.

The National Recycling Coalition is virtually bankrupt and recyclables are piling up in warehouses around the country because nobody wants them, or they are being sold for far less than the cost to taxpayers to pick it all up.