Sentences with phrase «dollar tax reform»

The House of Representatives passes a nearly $ 1.5 trillion dollar tax reform package that promises to overhaul corporate and personal taxes.

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«Since... 2011 we have created more than 512,000 private - sector jobs, implemented pro-business tax reform and saved millions of taxpayer dollars by maintaining Georgia's AAA bond rating.»

Remember, the fundamental argument for the dollar is a slow and steady march toward genuine tax reform.

In the coming days, some of Wall Street's major banks are expected to announce multi-billion dollar write - downs because of tax reform.

But this wrenching concern over the deficit — particularly when the situation in Puerto Rico remains so dire — is hard for some to swallow when conservatives are simultaneously pushing forward a tax reform package that could leave a more than a trillion - dollar hole in the deficit and have signed on to spending bills that added more than $ 100 billion to defense spending, without the immediate promise of offsets elsewhere.

FactSet attributes this optimism to tax reform, an improving global economy and weaker U.S. dollar.

«In a world where you've got a finite number of dollars you can dedicate to tax reform, if you have one year on the front end that's completely unpaid for, it ends up consuming a disproportionate amount of total resources available,» he said.

The recent tax reforms and weakening of the US dollar add a combined 10 % to JPM's earnings per share forecasts, while the prospects of a new boss, margin expansion and a possible share buyback mean there are plenty of catalysts ahead

Bond and currency markets have not embraced tax reform to nearly the same degree and in the case of the dollar, apparently not at all.

The U.S. dollar rose slightly against a basket of major currencies helped by optimism about progress on tax reform legislation and lawmakers» efforts to avert a U.S. government shutdown on Saturday.

The dollar index (DXY) peaked in December 2016 and has subsequently lost nearly 13 per cent, shrugging off what should have been positive effects from U.S. tax reform and a Federal Reserve about to embark on a tightening cycle.

Corporate tax reform proposals in the U.S. could prompt significant expectations for further dollar appreciation, driven by the potential impact on trade and the repatriation of corporate profits held overseas.

The post-election dollar rally was driven by expectations of two policies: an infrastructure plan and corporate tax reform.

Corporate tax reform could also buoy the dollar.

Perhaps the best way to achieve that goal is to hope for a Washington impasse, making the dollar weaker than it would be if tax reform and infrastructure are passed.

Family - Friendly Tax Reform - This plan would save thousands of dollars for working - class and middle - class parents and cut taxes on investment income.

The dollar was floated, the financial system was modernised, unfair and rort - driven tax laws were reformed and sustainable jobs were created in world - class competitive industries.

Right now, there isn't the funding but if we were able to tie international tax reform, tax all that money that the companies have overseas and put that in an infrastructure bank, there could be a trillion dollars of infrastructure funding and you could get the kind of funding we need for high - speed rail,» he said.

Before Benedict Donald's tax reform NY State sent $ 48B dollars to the Fed more than we received back in direct Federal benefits.

The possible repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act could reduce the state's funding for health care by several billion dollars, and the tax reform proposals could eliminate state and local tax deductions.

Tedisco also became the first Capital Region lawmaker to sign the «Clean Conscience Pledge» (photo attached) sponsored by Common Cause NY to support real ethics reform that includes closing the LLC Loophole for campaign finance reform, full disclosure in how legislative leaders spend tax dollars, and limiting outside income for legislators to reduce conflicts of interest.

Last year's business tax and estate tax reform also put hundreds of millions of dollars worth of additional tax cuts into the fiscal pipeline for the next few years.

That would be real campaign finance reform, instead of throwing tax dollars at politicians.»

«With our maximum - security prisons at 122 percent capacity and our overall prison population at 100 %, protecting the safety of inmates, corrections officers and the public at large means that tax dollars must be spent efficiently, and any reforms must address the extremely dangerous overcrowding and «double bunking» conditions at our medium - and maximum - security prisons.»

Major trust issues between New Yorkers and the elected representatives controlling their tax dollars continue to hamper our work, and without stricter reforms the integrity of the state's entire policy - making process is at risk.

Firms that earn millions of dollars each year helping Nassau residents challenge their property taxes contributed $ 15,000 to County Executive Laura Curran, who has pledged to reform the assessment system, new campaign finance reports show.

IDA reform bill requires IDAs to do a better job of gathering projected job data and performing a cost - benefit analysis before tax dollars are used to finance the project.

Common sense reforms to ensure a competitive bidding process, allow the Comptroller to review contracts, and create a database of deals will ensure that the public's tax dollars are being spent appropriately.

«Tonight's the first step in cleaning up the Republican culture of corruption and bringing real reform that saves Nassau tax dollars,» said Schnirman in an election night celebration in Freeport.

Cuomo and U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer made a rare joint public appearance to decry the tax reform plan, which Schumer said will «will pull thousands and thousands of dollars out of the pockets of middle - class New Yorkers.»

I plan on continuing my fight to reform our IDA system so that the IDAs can no longer waste our tax dollars, and I will advocate for policies that strengthen middle - class families in New York.

While the entire system of grants, subsidies, tax loopholes and other incentives need to be reformed, a line item that needs to be looked into is funding for energy research, which accounts for 9 billion dollars.

Expressing vociferous criticism of the so - called tax - reform measure, he said it would be «a potential catastrophe,» amounting to a multibillion - dollar tax increase for Long Islanders, driving down property values, and resulting in residents fleeing the region.

Other reforms Hawkins is calling for include a windfall tax on pharmaceutical companies» opioid wealth, a surtax on high - dollar pass - through income from LLCs and other pass - through vehicles, a clawback of the new federal tax cuts if not used to increase workers» pay, home rule for local income taxes, and tax credit «circuit breakers» to protect low - to - moderate income tenants and homeowners from unaffordable rents and property taxes.

«Gov. Cuomo should explain why his regressive tax reform, which cuts taxes for the wealthiest should be adopted when it will actually cause a a multi-billion dollar budget deficit.

With this deal plus the recent tax reform, we're looking at a potential return to trillion - dollar deficits next year.

This is a worthy goal but from then until now the achievement gap has only widened, even after all the testing, school closures and billions of tax dollars spent on educational reform schemes.

Ending traditional school funding — especially the use of property tax dollars as a funding source for districts and schools (which account for 34 percent of school funding in the Wolverine State)-- would get rid of excuses traditional districts use to oppose all forms of school choice, keep poor and minority kids out of the schools they operate, and refuse to take on other systemic reforms.

The fact that school districts can continue to use their dependence on property tax dollars to oppose reforms — especially school choice and Parent Power — is one reason.

Today, most school board elections get single - digit turnouts, even in multi-million dollar races, making them especially vulnerable to the wrong interests: tax hawks opposed to spending, unionists seeking influence on both sides of the bargaining table, extremists who want to pervert curriculum, racists bent on perpetuating segregation, or reform zealots who seek to disrupt the status quo regardless of results or consequences.

Instead of continuing to throw millions of precious tax dollars into the proverbial, but very real, pit of failed education reforms; instead of continuing to enrich test corporations and educational entrepreneurs who game the system; instead of maintaining the false and demoralizing narrative that our students and teachers are failures, our state legislators need to take this opportunity to tell the CSDE and CSBE that it will no longer support expensive mandates that unnecessarily impact our budget health when a re-design of state assessment practices has been encouraged by recent federal legislation.

But this was never about reform or access or leveling the playing field: it was about opening up public education as a market, siphoning off tax dollars to charters and for - profit vendors, shifting public funds from a system that had public oversight and control to private interests.

The House budget proposal will reflect a «good balance of continuing tax reform and tax reduction with making sure that we're meeting the needs of our citizens,» said Rep. Nelson Dollar, a Cary Republican and the House's senior budget writer.

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After all, they assure you, tax reform added piles of dollars to the bottom line profits of corporations as well as placed mounds of money back into the pockets of millions of households.

President Trump's recently enacted tax reform contained a provision to encourage American companies to bring home billions of dollars they...

«If we are going to make further reforms to OAS, it should be in the interests of fairness and getting more for our tax - dollars rather than because of sustainability concerns.»

In the Canadian dollar's defense, there is still modest scope for optimism: Energy prices have room to potentially nudge higher (although much of the good news is already in the oil price), fears of a border adjustment tax have faded alongside expectations for broad - based tax reform, and net speculative positioning in the Canadian dollar is already particularly bearish (see the chart below).

The US dollar (USD) strengthened versus most major currencies, following announcements about the FOMC's balance - sheet reduction and President Trump's proposed tax reforms

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