Sentences with phrase «cuts in»

The recent corporate tax cuts in the US will register as a plus in the next global ranking.

In an attempt to hold on to those shareholders, the company made deeper cuts in the workforce than previously planned and curtailed early - stage research programs.

That resulted in the elimination of 700 jobs across the eight newspapers, on top of 800 job cuts in 2012.

Before relatively recently, it was standard practice to assume that capital paid the whole tax, and some observers argue that remains the correct approach, given recent empirical research showing that shareholders tend to be the exclusive beneficiaries of cuts in taxes affecting corporations.

In particular, Mr. Behravesh and other economists said, the economy has shown greater resilience than expected in the face of tax increases and spending cuts in Washington.

Controversial reforms Greece promised to pass into law by Wednesday include reforming the VAT system, overhauling pensions and signing up to plans that ensure immediate spending cuts in the event of breaching creditor - mandated budget targets.

U.S. stocks took their biggest loss in five months Tuesday as a health care bill backed by President Donald Trump ran into trouble in Congress, which raised some questions about his agenda of faster economic growth spurred on by lower taxes and cuts in regulations.

Interestingly, self - employed people tend to work longer hours only to earn less, suggesting that traditional jobs are under - delivering on what employees want to such a degree that many are willing to take pay cuts in order to get them.

While that was a new low for Australian official interest rates — the previous low had been 4.75 per cent in the late 1990s — it was a relatively muted response compared with the very large cuts in interest rates that occurred elsewhere in the world.

In the absence of tax increases, the government will not be able to achieve its goal of a balanced budget by 2015 - 16 without major cuts in direct program expenses and the elimination of «boutique» tax expenditures in the order of $ 8 to $ 11 billion by 2015 - 16.

If the chairman wants to say no cuts or minimal cuts in the next year or two on entitlements, it has to be tied with structural budgetary reform in Congress.

After all, sweat equity can make up for a trim marketing budget, but it would be hard to make up for cuts in product development and customer service without sacrificing customer experience.

Federal expenditure and entitlement reforms must involve meaningful cuts in the near future and not at the end of the next presidential term in 2016.

So Senate Republicans decided to comply with the rule by simply having all the most expensive individual cuts in the bill expire, and paying for permanent corporate tax cuts by reducing access to subsidized health insurance and using chained CPI to raise individual taxes over time.

In this narrative, tax - favored private savings vehicles like 401 (k) s and IRAs should be expanded in order to compensate for the allegedly necessary cuts in Social Security.

The Bank of Montreal is reaping the benefits of increasing consumer confidence and tax cuts in the United States, but the lender's chief executive says there are signs Canada as a whole may not be so lucky.

James Moore defends the coast guard cuts in British Columbia and tries to take a swipe at Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson.

Protecting major transfers to persons, spending on health and education and other spending such as that for Aboriginal programs, research and development, and assuming you won't revisit defense and international assistance, then to find an additional $ 8 to $ 11 billion by 2015 - 16 would require major cuts in labor market programs, spending on the homeless, infrastructure programs, and last, but certainly not least, government personnel costs.

The policies governments have already promised have yet to be implemented effectively, and the «potential» emission cuts in the green section of the chart still need to be nailed down.

Retailers have announced more than 50,000 job cuts in 2017, according to numbers compiled by Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

However, business investment continues to be weighed down by cuts in resource - sector spending.

But net exports seem poised to become a larger engine of growth, one that could help offset the impact of further spending cuts in Washington or soften the punch from another bout of eurozone crisis travails, writes TD's Michael Dolega.

There were reports that BYD is seeing cuts in orders for its electric buses, although BYD claimed that isn't true.

Furthermore the industry expects losses to continue and lowered its production forecast by 20 % for 2030 because of large cuts in capital investment (Bloomberg News, Oct 29, 2015).

Kolko's analysis found that job cuts in oil - rich cities don't typically happen until about six months after energy prices tank, and property values don't fall until one or two years after that.

«Mark - Up of H.R. 3996, The Temporary Tax Relief Act of 2007 and H.R. 3997, The Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Act of 2007,» Hearing Before the Committee on Ways and Means, United States House of Representatives, November 1, 2007; «Baucus, Grassley Tackle Alternative Minimum Tax Relief on First Day of 110th Congress,» Press Release, January 4, 2007; «Easing the Family Tax Burden,» Hearing Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, March 8, 2001; «Revenue Proposals and Tax Cuts in the President's Budget,» Hearing Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, February 28, 2001; «President's Tax Relief Proposals: Individual Income Tax Rates,» Hearing Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, February 13, 2001; Jerry Tempalski, «The Impact of the 2001 Tax Bill on the Individual AMT,» National Tax Association Proceedings: 94th Annual Conference on Taxation, November 10, 2001.

In their report also dated Dec. 18, 2014, Barclays analysts also expressed concern about cuts in electric bus orders.

[1] But, with the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts in place, an estimated 23 million taxpayers will owe AMT in 2007, and reducing that figure to 2 - 3 million will cost $ 51 billion — more than three times as much.

«Over the last 10 or 15 years, newspaper readers have been treated to steady cuts in quality.

Davis said the company had to «make some changes» because of cuts in Medicare reimbursements for urine tests and other medical services.

When asked how AWS price cuts in May impacted its business, Olsavsky said AWS has continued to reduce services costs and roll out new services that might cannibalize existing services, but he otherwise declined to comment.

Zappos does offer free food to its employees, but the pile of cold cuts in the small cafeteria loses its allure faster than you can say Googleplex.

The $ 9 million centre cuts in and takes a shot!

When another driver cuts in front or a passenger claims the last seat on the subway, keep cool.

According to both Bechtel and its client, the Riyadh Development Authority, the metro isn't endangered by looming budget cuts in the kingdom.

«Biggest Tax Bill and Tax Cuts in history just passed in the Senate,» Trump tweeted.

With the government's strategy over the past few months apparently focused on undermining the Wildrose Alliance by stealing from its agenda, many had expected the Tories would further woo disaffected right - wing voters with deep spending cuts in this year's budget, which was unveiled on Feb. 9.

A delay in tax reform, including proposed cuts in corporate taxes, would hurt stocks, says The Lindsey Group's chief market analyst.

Steel prices have climbed on the back of rising demand and capacity cuts in China, coupled with a spate of anti-dumping measures that knocked Chinese steel exports from record levels of 2015.

Bush understood the politics of tax cuts in a way that Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan do not — which is why Ryan and Trump have produced a tax plan that is a political time bomb.

Companies in the region tend to rely on price cuts in order to sustain volume.

«We believe smartphone component vendors will be enduring the consequences of these cuts in the first half of 2018.»

Many blamed the problems on Nooyi's cuts in advertising and marketing for sodas and chips, as well as the $ 7.8 billion she spent to buy back Pepsi's bottlers, which reduced the company's return on invested capital.

«Without rapid cuts in CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions, we will be heading for dangerous temperature increases by the end of this century, well above the target set by the Paris climate change agreement,» Petteri Taalas, the WMO's secretary - general, said in a statement.

MONTREAL — Bombardier is implementing one of the deepest job cuts in its history by eliminating 7,000 positions — including more than a third in Canada — though it took pains Wednesday to instead train the public spotlight on a large CSeries plane order with Air Canada.

Trump and Republicans in Congress may argue that abolishing the deduction for state and local taxes would be more than offset by cuts in income tax rates.

In 2001, Republicans addressed the politics of taxes by making big cuts across the board: an expanded child credit for low and moderate earners, a new lower tax bracket at the bottom, plus cuts in regular and capital income - tax rates for those at the top.

However, Finance Minister Bill Morneau still faces the challenge of corporate tax cuts in the U.S. that have prompted worries that companies will choose to invest there instead of Canada.

It would be surprising if there are any actual tariff cuts in Budget 2016, but I would like to see the government commit to a process to selectively eliminate import tariffs.

Many of the business tax cuts in the Republican plan are simply windfalls for people who made business investments in the past — and even if investors are very responsive to incentives, they can't respond to the bill by investing more in businesses and creating more jobs in the past.