Sentences with phrase «fiscal position»

This plan consists of maintaining «a strong fiscal position» and a «low - tax plan for jobs and growth».

Our plan is transparent and honest about the weakened fiscal position that the federal government is facing.

With its AAA credit rating, B.C. is in the strongest fiscal position of any Canadian province.

(CEO Alain Bellemare has instead emphasized the company's improved fiscal position the past few months, in effect pointing out Bombardier is not quite as needy as it once was.)

«I want our country to be in a very solid fiscal position in case in the future we have another crisis,» Flaherty told reporters.

Yet deteriorating fiscal positions at all levels of government create a new set of challenges.

While Labour is treading water the country is heading into the worst fiscal position ever.

Draws on Owner's Equity for distributions need to evaluated and checked against the company's fiscal position on the ASBCS» Financial Performance Recommendations.

Over the last few weeks the world has watched as Deutsche Bank has struggled to convince investors and the public that it is in a sound fiscal position.

While originally many lawmakers wanted to use the gains from growth to improve the nation's precarious fiscal position, that has shifted to a goal of tax reform that doesn't add to the debt after accounting for growth.

«The Foundation is in a strong fiscal position going into 2018 and 2019, with substantial funds available both from investment earnings and trust fund income.

One of the major reasons cited for the increase was strong fiscal position which is reflected in the operating surplus and the County's fund balance.

We will make sure Canada's fiscal position remains strong, strong enough to weather any future global economic storms.

Improving the U.S. fiscal position is the most effective means we have available to reduce our vulnerability during this prolonged period of adjustment.

Our plan ensures that the government of Canada remains in a sustainable fiscal position.

According to the Parliamentary Budget Office, the long - run fiscal position of the federal government is not bad at all.

If rental revenue is burdened with interest charges, the government's own fiscal position must suffer — or else, the financial sector will be squeezed.

This is important because when the government makes major decisions like changing the escalator on the Canadian Health Transfer we can see what the impact is on the provincial fiscal position.

«There is no rational economic reason, for a currency - issuing government, to think that a balanced fiscal position is responsible, desirable or even possible.

His own hubris and mistakes as chancellor had made Britain's underlying fiscal position worse.

«In the light of the overall fiscal position the government concluded that it was not a priority funding stream.»

The three big challenges that Mr Brown needed to tackle - the country's dire fiscal position, the collapse of confidence in the political system and the difficulties faced by Afghanistan - were left, by the end of the speech, untackled.

The report says Ghana's current rating of B1, negative outlook is constrained by the ongoing weakness in the government's fiscal position due to ongoing spending overruns on the public - sector wage bill, high interest costs and the clearance of payment arrears.

«The message is we're still in very tight fiscal position,» said DiNapoli.

«Our strong fiscal position allows us to do what other countries would like to do, but can't afford to do.»

«Our government is committed to balancing the budget in 2015 — period,» he said, adding that «maintaining a sound fiscal position» is the most important thing this government, or any, can do to help the economy.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo hasn't been asked about this lately, particularly given the state's precarious fiscal position — something that needs to be kept in mind, Thompson acknowledged, as judicial pay raises are contemplated.

There is also no doubt that without these tax cuts the government would have been in a much better fiscal position to deal with the 2009 - 2010 recession; that any resulting deficit, would have been eliminated much earlier than 2015 - 16, and without the need for draconian cuts in federal programs and services.

Any additional life circumstances (e.g. children, spouse, etc.) would reduce the borrower's income and thereby make repayment even less affordable and put the borrower in an even worse fiscal position.

Low sovereign bond yields have long helped the government finance its debt, thus, higher yields would undermine the sustainability of its fiscal position, analysts said.

According to a report by Benjamin Reitzes, an analyst with BMO World Markets, other central bankers will follow suit — if they haven't already — because «Canada's fiscal position is relatively favourable among developed economies and the financial system has ranked as the soundest globally for a second consecutive year.»

If the economy underperforms the assumptions built into the budget, the government's fiscal position could deteriorate rapidly; we have already seen expected revenues for 2015 - 16 and 2016 - 17 decline by $ 6 - 7 billion per year since the Fall Economic Update (with some offset in reduced expenses), largely due to low oil prices.

Canada's fiscal position is the envy of the developed world.

It also predicts that its fiscal position has improved, in terms of both deficit and debt.

As noted by Camilla Sutton, a Scotia Capital currency strategist, the dollar is likely to resume a depreciatory trend because «its fiscal position is weak and, worse, there is only a limited plan in place to improve it.»

They expected the province's fiscal position to improve through the divestiture of a corporation laden with $ 4.5 billion in debt, and saw a solution to high power costs that hinder New Brunswick's competitiveness.

This has an effect on the government's fiscal position, because interest is a tax - deductible expense.

In our discussions, we thought it was important to keep in mind that many of these countries have become more resilient in recent years: they have been restructuring their economies, strengthening their fiscal positions, and moving to more flexible exchange rates.

While the country has very little debt and relatively huge fiscal exchange reserves, the drop in oil represents a huge change in Saudi Arabia's fiscal position.

Interest rates in the US were reduced to historically low levels during 2001, while discretionary tax cuts and government spending increases (along with the automatic stabilisers) have shifted the fiscal position in a markedly expansionary direction.

But, taking a longer - term perspective, some countries, especially in Europe, have had fiscal positions that were quite vulnerable to a shock to confidence for some time now.

Perhaps the best medium - term measure of a country's fiscal position is the ratio of government debt to GDP.

But if cities and states lower their real estate taxes, their fiscal position will be squeezed even more.