Sentences with phrase «first dollar tax»

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Sure some people make money on tax liens, but it's the small minority and not an investment suited for someone who doesn't first have tens of thousands of dollars invested.

Financial Aid: In 2017, for the first time ever, America's public universities received more revenue from tuition than they did from tax dollars — a funding model that places a higher burden on students and their families and risks widening economic inequality, even as the population of would - be students becomes more diverse.

A recent BofA Merrill Lynch report, though, predicts that a dollar rebound is likely in the first half of this year, in part due to corporate repatriation flows stemming from Washington's revamped tax code.

First, it was that the company paid little to no state and local government taxes and then it was that the e-commerce company was a «scam» which costs the US Post Office and therefore the American people, billions of dollars a year.

Also in the hard - to - believe category is Alaska's plan to institute an income tax for the first time in 35 years to «close a $ 3.5 billion dollar deficit the state is carrying,» according to Zero Hedge.

But if the state issued a dollar - for - dollar state tax credit for charitable contributions made to, say, the state's general infrastructure fund, the first $ 6,000 donated, though reducing state tax liability by $ 6,000, does nothing to lower federal taxes owed because the taxpayer would still take the standard deduction.

And if you literally mean a flat tax with from the first dollar (which is * NOT * what most flat tax proposals are, by the way — they all include at least a significant standard deduction)-- one with no deductions & credits (not even home interest deductions or charitable deductions or college deductions, etc), then we may as well be discussing what type of pig would fly more efficiently.

Note that he earns millions of dollars in income, but the first $ 73800 is tax free.

Brazil has earned 250 BILLION dollars in taxes in the first 6 months of the year.

I guess you prefer politicians that lie their way into a second war while we're still fighting the first without bothering to figure out how to pay for it, give no - bid million dollar government contracts to their profiteering cronies, then fail to oversee those contracts, leading to BILLIONS of tax dollars wasted.

You apply for a job in my community by running a campaign for a paid office that my local tax dollars pay for and you get elected then show up to your first scheduled meeting and decide to spend the first 5 minutes — eating donuts instead of working, speaking to the audience about your personal problems with your wife, telling the audience about an upcoming play your kid will be in, telling the captive audience about the benefits of being gay, speaking to them about God or praying aloud to your God regardless of which God the rest of the audience believes in.

First he would say «stop spending tax payer dollars on religious items, because I am, after all, not real».

First, note that the estate tax only applies to the part of an estate worth more than $ 11.2 million dollars ($ 22.4 million for married couples).

@CCTO - If the inheritance tax were on every dollar, from the first, perhaps, but since, literally, the first millions (in the USA) are exempt, that's not the case.

Back in 2003, for example, the Assembly and Senate overrode the governor's budget vetoes for the first time in two decades, increasing state taxes over Pataki's opposition to restore billions of dollars in spending on schools, hospitals, nursing homes and localities.

Lander was one of the first councilmembers to bring «participatory budgeting» to his district, (now going into its seventh year) giving residents the power to decide which projects to support with their tax dollars.

• When measured in absolute dollars paid, Westchester, Nassau, and Rockland are respectively the first, second and fifth highest - taxed counties in the nation

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.

Sales tax breaks amount to $ 3 million, but in its first five years, the hotel portion of the project will create $ 1.6 million in new, county bed tax dollars.

As the taxpayer's watchdog, one of Mark's first actions was to strengthen the office's Audit Division and shape it into an Inspector General - style organization that stops and prevents waste, fraud and abuse of county tax dollars.

Four million dollars in tax - free financing will be awarded to the developer to tear down the former Kane - Doyle dealership at 2780 Delaware Ave. in Kenmore and replace it with a 20,000 - square - foot building with retail space on the first floor and offices on the second.

Governor Cuomo's second legislative session was far less dramatic than his first legislative session in 2011, when he convinced the legislature to authorize same sex marriage, instate a 2 % property tax cap, and close a massive $ 10 billion dollar budget deficit.

«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.

The state's three licensed casinos are hundreds of millions of dollars behind what they projected they would make in their first year of operation, and tax revenues are a fraction of what was promised.

President Donald Trump on March 16 took the first step to make good on his campaign promise to shift federal tax dollars from traditional public schools to a «choice» program that promotes charters, private and religious schools.

«We have real needs for economic development in upstate New York, as everybody who lives here certainly knows first hand and as the data shows, and unfortunately the programs that have been paid for with our tax dollars are not showing any appreciable economic development for upstate,» Miner said.

ALBANY — Bill de Blasio's first trips to Albany this year were like walking into a buzz saw: First, the New York City mayor was confronted by a proposed state budget that shifted millions of dollars of costs onto his books, and then he was grilled by Republicans who wanted to impose a cap on his ability to raise property tfirst trips to Albany this year were like walking into a buzz saw: First, the New York City mayor was confronted by a proposed state budget that shifted millions of dollars of costs onto his books, and then he was grilled by Republicans who wanted to impose a cap on his ability to raise property tFirst, the New York City mayor was confronted by a proposed state budget that shifted millions of dollars of costs onto his books, and then he was grilled by Republicans who wanted to impose a cap on his ability to raise property taxes.

REBNY has traditionally focused its lobbying efforts — and dollars — on candidates for state office rather than in New York City, for two main reasons, Lerner said: First, the city's relatively stringent campaign finance laws have historically made it harder for special interest groups to gain as much influence here; and second, although many key issues — such as 421a tax abatements — affect only New York City, they are decided at the state level.

Participatory budgeting (PB) is a new process for capital budgeting in which voters in participating districts directly decide how to spend millions of their own tax dollars, a first in New York City and only the second such initiative in the United States.

For the first time in more than 75 years, the electricity and oil sectors are opening up to private investors, introducing competition to its energy - producing stalwarts, putting billions of dollars of profits and tax revenue into play.

Sen. Roger Wicker (R — Miss.), of the Dickey — Wicker Amendment, explained that the advent of hESC research in the years since the amendment was first written has only underscored what he described to be the intentions of the legislation: to avoid tax dollars from being spent on any research that has endangered an embryo.

Forty - seven percent of respondents said that they oppose using federal tax dollars for «experiments» requiring that «live embryos... be destroyed in their first week of development.»

Of the public tax dollars spent on agricultural research, organic receives less than one percent of the funding.1 The first endowed chair went to the University of Wisconsin - Madison and agronomy professor William F. Tracy for his work on organic corn breeding.

Less defensible: only the first million dollars of paid ransom is tax deductible.

First, we should be doing a better job of prioritizing our tax dollars.

On the day before school was to open that year, federal district court judge Solomon Oliver struck down the program, ruling that the use of tax dollars to pay for children to attend religious schools offends the First Amendment's Establishment Clause.

When first explaining that a «school voucher system allows parents the option of sending their child to the school of their choice, whether that school is public or private, including both religious and non-religious schools» using «tax dollars currently allocated to a school district,» support increased to 63 percent and opposition increased to 33 percent.

The Trump administration is considering a first - of - its - kind federal tax credit scholarship program that would channel billions of dollars to families from working - class households to enable their children to attend private schools, including religious schools.

Donations to the program are offset with a dollar - for - dollar tax credit, up to $ 1,000 for individuals, $ 2,500 for families, and $ 10,000 for businesses.14 Tax - credit - eligible donations are capped at $ 58 million annually and are available on a first - come, first - served bastax credit, up to $ 1,000 for individuals, $ 2,500 for families, and $ 10,000 for businesses.14 Tax - credit - eligible donations are capped at $ 58 million annually and are available on a first - come, first - served basTax - credit - eligible donations are capped at $ 58 million annually and are available on a first - come, first - served basis.

The State Department of Education, in collusion with non-educator administrators such as Steven Adamowski, have handed Achievement First millions in public tax payer dollars to experiment on children from poor families.

Integrity in Education and the Center for Popular Democracy aren't the first to warn of problems plaguing an under - regulated industry fueled by billions of tax dollars.

Jon, I find that in comparing apples to oranges you will identify ways in which Public Charter School or maybe just Achievement First, as it seems this is your only target now, are doing things that are illegal, wrong and shouldn't be done with tax payer dollar.

As the first EV with over 200 miles range priced in the 30s — a few dollars under $ 30,000 with a $ 7,500 federal tax credit — it is General Motors» badge of corporate technological pride.

Early in the twenty - first century, Louisiana, one of the poorest states in the United States, redirected millions in tax dollars from the public coffers in an effort to become the top location site globally for the production of Hollywood films and television series.

The popular savings tool cost the federal treasury some $ 410 million in forgone taxes in 2013, or more than a billion dollars over its first five years.

The result for the family who uses corporate class funds is the opportunity to structure taxable income from non-registered accounts to keep more of the first dollars invested, avoid high marginal tax rates and limit clawbacks of social benefits like the Old Age Security.

This will tell you the tax rate tradeoff on the first dollars converted.

The first dollars you convert are taxed at the lowest bracket available based on your current tax situation.

The income earned below that level is taxed at the lower marginal rate — the higher marginal tax rate does not get applied all the way back to the first dollar of income earned.

It is said that a dollar saved is a dollar earned, but remember that we get taxed TWICE when we buy stuff (first income tax and then sales tax), so saving a dollar will actually save you a little more than a dollar.