Sentences with phrase «federal contributions from»

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Some experts, such as Marcus Lemon, an attorney at Polsinelli and former chief counsel to Federal Highway Administration from 2007 to 2009, say this proposal could actually help state and local budgets, because it provides more clarity about federal contributions, thereby forcing them to adapt accorFederal Highway Administration from 2007 to 2009, say this proposal could actually help state and local budgets, because it provides more clarity about federal contributions, thereby forcing them to adapt accorfederal contributions, thereby forcing them to adapt accordingly.

On the second substantial issue facing the airline, the pension shortfall, Air Canada almost certainly needs to broker a compromise, likely involving contributions from both sides, and perhaps the federal government, to cover the gap.

The three defense companies have also donated more money in the 2018 election cycle than any other company in the industry, according to a new analysis from the Center for Responsible Politics, which draws on the Federal Election Commission's latest political - candidate - contribution report.

And both women's suits could provide more fodder for federal complaints from the watchdog group Common Cause that the payoffs were, effectively, illegal campaign contributions.

Contributions made by employers are exempt from federal income and payroll taxes, and account owners can deduct any contributions they make from income subject to federal Contributions made by employers are exempt from federal income and payroll taxes, and account owners can deduct any contributions they make from income subject to federal contributions they make from income subject to federal income taxes.

But it also includes measures that the Opposition Parties may not want to support; for example; the increase in annual Tax Free Savings Account contribution limit; changes to the sick leave provisions of federal employees; and retroactive legislation to protect the RCMP from possible criminal charges with respect to the destruction of data under the Access to Information Act.

Subtractions from federal AGI can be made in certain special circumstances, most notably if you have made contributions to a Nebraska College Savings Plan.

Contributions to and earnings in DB plans are exempt from both income and payroll taxes, and withdrawals are fully subject to federal income tax.

Their contributions are automatically deducted from their paychecks before federal income tax, reducing taxable income while creating the opportunity for future tax - deferred growth on that money.

Breaking the GDP report down, we see that in addition to overall modest strength in the economy (growth was still off from the fourth quarter's 2.9 %), the upturn was helped individually by positive contributions from nonresidential fixed investment, exports, private inventory investment, federal government spending, and state and local government spending.

This ability to «double - dip» and obtain both state / local and federal tax benefits from a single charitable contribution is, under current (i.e., pre-GOP tax bill) law, undercut by the deductibility of state and local taxes.

Claim: «The Federal Reserve's third quantitative easing program (QE3), implemented at the end of 2012, provided a meaningful positive contribution to the performance of the United States economy from that date onward.»

The federal government has sought to encourage retirement savings for years by allowing you to deduct contributions to your 401 (k) and IRA from your income and thus lower your tax bill.

Federal law bars foreign interests from making campaign contributions or interfering with U.S. elections.

«Tax exemption» also refers to deductibility: of charitable bequests from federal inheritance taxes, of charitable gifts from the federal gift tax and of charitable contributions from the donor's gross income.

That law barred dedicated political - advocacy groups from soliciting and spending soft money — funds that aren't subject to tight federal campaign - contribution limits and are used for issue advocacy and party - building...

Comprised of senior employees from across the company, the Kraft Heinz PAC Board approves contributions to federal, state and local candidates, political parties and other federal PACs.

IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).

Mass Audubon recognizes and appreciates the sporting community's contributions to wildlife management and in conserving critical wildlife habitat, including thousands of acres in Massachusetts through their federal duck stamp purchases and fees collected from Massachusetts fishing, hunting, and sporting licenses.

Hiram Monserrate turned himself in to federal authorities in connection with the NYC Council slush fund scandal, a commission of his former legislative colleagues, which rarely takes action against one of its own, found reasonable cause to believe that he violated the Public Officers Law by setting up a legal defense fund and soliciting contributions from from individuals and entities that had business interests in his work as a senator.

The [Federal Election Campaign] Act does not prohibit individuals with permanent resident status (commonly referred to as «green card holders») from making contributions or donations in connection with federal, state or local elections, as they are not considered foreign natFederal Election Campaign] Act does not prohibit individuals with permanent resident status (commonly referred to as «green card holders») from making contributions or donations in connection with federal, state or local elections, as they are not considered foreign natfederal, state or local elections, as they are not considered foreign nationals.

The former Queens senator and erstwhile amigo received $ 9,600 — the maximum allowable contribution — on March 9 from GDP Consulting, a Niagara Falls - based consulting company at the center of a federal tax and money laundering probe connected to Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr..

The Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA), passed by Congress in the early 1970s, had made it a federal offense for PACs to accept money from corporations, and Viacom — the corporate owner of Colbert's network — feared that it would face accusations of making illegal in - kind contributions should ColbertPAC become a fully functioning money - raisiFederal Election Campaign Act (FECA), passed by Congress in the early 1970s, had made it a federal offense for PACs to accept money from corporations, and Viacom — the corporate owner of Colbert's network — feared that it would face accusations of making illegal in - kind contributions should ColbertPAC become a fully functioning money - raisifederal offense for PACs to accept money from corporations, and Viacom — the corporate owner of Colbert's network — feared that it would face accusations of making illegal in - kind contributions should ColbertPAC become a fully functioning money - raising PAC.

Only American citizens (and immigrants with green cards) can contribute to federal politics, but the American divisions of foreign companies can form political action committees (PACs) and collect contributions from their American employees.

* Based on data released by the FEC on July 09, 2003 except for independent expenditure and communication cost, contributions to federal candidates, and contributions from individual donor data, which were released by the FEC on November 18, 2013.

Councilmember Corey Johnson took Transition and Inauguration contributions from a hotel magnate who pled guilty yesterday to violations of federal campaign finance law.

A new 527 - type group — the number refers to a section of the federal tax code — would be able to raise money from business organizations and pour the funding into «issues ads» that would attack specific candidates as anti-business, without the funding being counted as a contribution to the opposing candidate.

The Internal Revenue Service has determined that the Empire Center is exempt from federal income tax under section 501c3 of the Internal Revenue Code, meaning contributions to the Empire Center are deductible to the full extent provided by law.

Unlike contributions at the federal level, there is nothing in state law requiring lobbyists who bundle contributions (usually from their clients) to attach their names to the donation checks.

Grant Lally, like Achilles, has a fatal weakness: he paid off the government when the Federal Elections Commission fined him $ 280,000 for accepting illegal campaign contributions from his parents, and then lied about it.

(White Plains, NY)-- In an effort to protect child care subsidies for low - income families, the Westchester County Board of Legislators (BOL) approved new legislation and two resolutions tonight aimed at stopping County Executive Robert P. Astorino and the Westchester County Department of Social Services (DSS) from increasing the family contribution to daycare expense from 20 % to 35 % of the portion of income that exceeds the federal poverty level.

To pull a few examples from the complaint: In May 2011, Howe emailed Aiello, saying «you should hold on making any political $ $ contributions to any state federal electeds, so we can make sure you can [get] the most leverage out of them.»

It ends with a call for state and federal lawmakers to reject campaign contributions from gun rights groups like the NRA, enact stricter licensing and registration requirements for guns, a ban on «all classes of weapons that do not serve the specific uses of personal protection and sport shooting» and other gun control measures.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo will «set aside» campaign contributions from COR Development and LPCiminelli, which federal prosecutors allege came to the governor's purse at the urging of a lobbyist involved in several bid - rigging schemes.

Data on contributions from the Center for Responsive Politics and the Federal Elections Commission, Accessed Sept. 26, 2016

And instead of more details, it effectively punted, saying that the state would at some point put in money, but only after the MTA spent down its contributions from the city and federal government.

But the other candidates are sure to seize on the jaw - dropping testimony in a federal trial this week of Jona Rechnitz, a de Blasio donor who said his contributions bought him access and favors from Hizzoner.

Since contributions would be both deductible and trigger the credit, the effective credit would be between 91 percent and 94 percent.31 This proposal provides relief from the SALT cap because the contribution can be deducted from income for federal tax purposes, just as the State and local tax was prior to TCJA.

Contributions to this fund would be deductible from State, local, and federal income taxes and taxpayers would receive a credit toward their subsequent year State income taxes equal to 85 percent of their contribution.

Eight federal political committees that have received contributions from Mercer or his daughter, Rebekah, have reported paying Cambridge Analytica in the past, including Sen. Ted Cruz's presidential committee and the North Carolina Republican Party.

The EFCC subsequently received a petition alleging that over N50bn from the Employee Compensation Scheme fund, paid by Ministries, Departments and Agencies and private companies as well as another N18bn, being the contribution of the Federal Government as take - off grant to the NSITF, was mismanaged and diverted into the personal accounts of Olojeme and Umar Abubakar, a former Managing Director of the NSITF.

The Democrats paid for pro-Malloy mass mailings with about $ 250,000 from the state party's federally regulated campaign account, which is allowed by federal law to accept heavy contributions from state contractors despite the state clean - election laws» ban on contractors» money going to candidates for state office.

While the full scope of the new probe is unclear at this early stage, sources say that one of the focuses of FBI and federal prosecutors has been the central issue in the recently concluded SEEC investigation: the Democrats» 2014 spending on behalf of Malloy from a federally regulated campaign account fed by heavy contributions from state contractors.

«In the end, we would save more money than we would spend by having a public financing system that allows people to run based on contributions from ordinary citizens rather than from special interest looking for something in return from the federal or state budget,» she said.

State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son were arrested Monday by federal authorities, who alleged the state's top Republican extorted bribes and campaign contributions from companies in exchange for steering key real estate legislation and rigging a lucrative Nassau County environmental contract to his son's benefit.

Pataki also lists a $ 500 contribution from «Tom PAC Federal Multi-Candidate Committee.»

Fundraising totals revealed donations largely came from outside of the district — just 7 percent of contributions came from district residents in the final quarter of 2017 — and just a fraction of the total haul, 12 percent, were from small dollar donations of under $ 200, according to Federal Election Commission reports.

A rule of the federal Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) prohibits bond work from going to financial firms that make campaign contributions to public officials who control bond decisions.

Cuomo has since 2012 taken in more than $ 131,000 in campaign contributions from three major financial firms that were then tapped by his administration to manage state bond work without competitive bids and in apparent violation of federal rules.

• Congress to ban most campaign contributions to members from lobbyists or leaders of any entity seeking federal earmarks.