Sentences with phrase «costs as an incentive»

Education secretary Nicky Morgan made the announcement in a speech at the Policy Exchange, saying that rural schools and coastal schools will be the focus on the new plans, which will see teachers offered higher salaries, future leadership roles and relocation costs as incentives.

«We want to continue to offer low cost subsidized veterinarian costs as an incentive to get people to do Trap Neuter Return.»

For example, a builder might offer to pay closing costs as an incentive for the borrower to buy a new home.

Not exact matches

As you can see below, often those caps are so low compared to the actual cost of cleanup, some wonder if there's enough incentive to prevent disasters from happening in the first place.

Which means it has a strong financial incentive to reduce long - term health costs (which it will likely inherit as well), even at the cost of laying out more money for screening and prevention up front.

(The recent slowdown in productivity could arguably be because of the low cost of labor and, therefore, reduced incentives to invest in capital and would likely rebound as labor markets get genuinely tight and start pushing wage - growth up.)

As for Walmart, the service is likely to be an incentive for people to come into stores while also cutting down on the cost of returns shipping for the company.

Now solo as president of social media games publisher Sava Transmedia, he says income statements he's seen indicate about a 30 % increase in gross margin, although he cautions that advertising and customer acquisition costs (e.g. discounts, incentives, etc.) can still bring that down to something closer to parity with physical distribution.

Besides providing such familiar tax incentives as a five - year income - tax exemption for coveted corporations, the government often shares the cost of training workers and even puts up part of the capital for plants and equipment.

Of those that do, most (54 %) offer financial incentives to encourage workers to complete the assessment, such as reduced premiums or cost - sharing; eligibility for other wellness benefits; or cash, contributions to an HSA, or merchandise.

Elimination of current employer drug plan costs as well as tax incentives to provide same.

The Compensation Committee also considers the appropriateness of various equity vehicles, such as stock options, PRSUs and RSUs, as well as overall program costs (which include both stockholder dilution and compensation expense), when evaluating the long - term incentive mix.

It offers incentives to members and functions as a form of network accounting with low cost and very fast processing.

«With Rocketrip's incentive platform, companies can promote desirable cost - saving behaviors, such as advanced purchase of flights.

According to the release, the company will be «free from profit - making incentives and constraints» as it tries to find ways to cut costs and boost satisfaction for patients, with an initial focus on technology solutions.

Amazon asked governments to identify incentive programs such as tax credits, exemptions, grants for relocation and workforce and other cost reduction programs.

According to Uber, the extra money it charges in delivery fees goes toward giving delivery partners financial incentives, as well as other operation costs.

Instead, factor in the cost of your incentives as a cost to sale for the Sales Drive.

He pointed to the biotechnology investment incentive tax credit — which analysts say costs more than $ 300,000 per job and has historically gone to investors in well capitalized, mid-stage companies not the start - ups it's supposed to help — as a program in need of change.

Incentive management fees increased 18 percent reflecting higher property - level profit due to worldwide REVPAR increases and continued cost control, as well as international unit growth.

Although Greater Vancouver also earns an «A» grade on KPMG's Total Tax Index, as local businesses enjoy relatively low statutory labour costs, the region is much less competitive when it comes to the marginal effective tax rate on capital, an indicator specifically designed to measure incentives for business investment.

As is, solar power is immediately cost effective when included in a home mortgage in all residential markets where electricity is over 12 cents per kwh, without local incentives or Cap - and - Trade.

He found the suppliers, including Cussons, had «strong economic and commercial incentives to transition early as possible» because of the significant cost savings and the prospect of improved margins from ultra concentrates.

In St. Louis, for example, a judge overturned a city ordinance that would have required a public vote on funding for a new stadium, clearing the way for a riverfront project that will cost $ 388 million in tax incentives and state and city bond proceeds as part of a $ 998 million plan that may or may not convince the Rams to stay.

Even if there isn't a twin discount, a good manager will be able to typically offer you some kind of incentive, such as an extra week of free lessons, to offset your costs.

A key advantage with daycare centers is that many businesses, especially large corporations, are able to negotiate discounts for their employees or even help to supplement the cost of care as an incentive for workers.

Those who fail to complete the installation will have their subsidy halved over the next 25 years, meaning the cost incurred to local authorities as a result of the incentive being cut early could run to hundreds of millions of pounds.

The government has an incentive to keep costs down, as there is limited tax money and they'd like to spend it on other things.

If the fund is too large, there are opportunity costs with the funds being tied up in reserve, as well as a worry that it would reduce incentives for careful expenditure planning.

But so long as cost shifts (perverse incentives) are profitable, universal coverage will be very wasteful.

An emergency summons such as this was is necessitated by the motion requires transportation allowance to be given to the MPs among other incentives which cost the taxpayer, he says adding the action was uncalled for.

That incentive is now there because the cost of lobbying is small in monetary terms relative to benefits, as you only need to influence a small amount of decision makers each of which is relatively «cheap» to influence.

Employer would have an incentive to have a smoking free (or a way to reduce smoke) as a benefit to employee to have lower insurance cost.

Anyway, either way, this just goes to show that it's not as simple as saying «force the contractors to share the costs of failure, and this will fix the incentive problem».

«I think the pension costs as a driver of their overall operation expenses become part of their incentive to negotiate more sustainable contracts,» he said.

That calculation changes as time goes on, since the retirement incentive costs are amortized over time.

According to Fitzpatrick and Lovenheim: «Early retirement incentives (ERIs) are increasingly prevalent in education as districts seek to close budget gaps by replacing expensive experienced teachers with lower - cost newer teachers.

«Mandatory insurance for all home - owners would reassign the costs for damage within a framework of solidarity, while the premium rebates would create economic incentive for private mitigation measures to tackle elementary damage such as flooding, severe rainfall and snow pressure,» prompts Prof. Reimund Schwarze from UFZ as food for thought.

Lead researcher Harriet Condie, from UEA's school of Environmental Sciences, said: «We took into account data such as catch and discard figures from fishing trawlers, fish prices and landing costs, to calculate whether banning the practice of discarding will offer enough of an economic incentive to fish sustainably.

While current energy policies play key roles in providing incentives for the use of solar energy in Indiana, businesses have an additional cost - saving option not available to residences: Businesses can deduct their investment in solar from their revenues — a tax policy known as depreciation.

What we need are the kinds of policy incentives that are equivalent to air mail,» such as a cost for CO2 emissions and a subsidy for captured and stored CO2.

Reaching that figure should be achievable through continued technology improvements and cost decreases, as well as the continuation of incentive programs to defray upfront costs of PV systems, according to the Science paper, which in addition to Haegel was co-authored by David Feldman, Robert Margolis, William Tumas, Gregory Wilson, Michael Woodhouse, and Sarah Kurtz of NREL.

-- The Secretary shall establish and provide incentives for developers of housing for which any HUD financial assistance, as determined by the Secretary, is provided for development, maintenance, operation, or other costs, to enter into agreements and partnerships with tree - planting organizations, nurseries, and landscapers to certify that trees, shrubs, grasses, and other plants are planted in the proper manner, are provided adequate maintenance, and survive for at least 3 years after planting or are replaced.

«But as the grip of that system has tightened over the last 25 years, and the catalogue of unintended consequences and perverse incentives has grown ever longer, it is hard to not to conclude that the costs now outweigh the benefits.

Rather, their deep - seated incentive structures focus them on either increasing their prestige by doing more academic research or on serving as cash cows for their parent institutions by enrolling large numbers of teachers and then serving them at a very low cost.

However, as we argue above, those states that do offer substantial incentives are likely to run into real costs as a result.

With no real power over revenues, local school boards in California face little incentive to conserve on costs as a means to lower tax rates.

They allow for budget allocation and charging to take place and can also act as an incentive for kitchen managers to reduce energy costs by providing rewards for doing so.

The D.C. School Choice Incentive Act of 2003 provides $ 65 million (plus $ 5 million for administrative costs) over five years to send as many as 1,700 low - income D.C. students to private and parochial schools starting in the fall of 2004.

As described in more detail below, a CESA with a carryover provision allows parents to cover needed costs of childcare that arise because the parent is at work or in school and has no family or friends who can care for her child, while providing a strong incentive through the carryover provision not to overspend on or over-utilize professional childcare services.