Sentences with phrase «for changes to a bill»

University students have made their own recommendations for changes to the bill, including the creation of a fund to invest collected taxes in further emissions - reduction schemes.

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After receiving a lot of emails from readers asking how it might change tax bills for families, we decided to take a look.

The changes to Medicaid were the sticking point for many Republican senators who had concerns about the bill going into the vote.

The bill, known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, is set to bring about widespread changes to the US tax code for both businesses and individual Americans.

But, on first glance, it appears that the new draft bill won't do much to change the Congressional Budget Office's initial assessments that tens of millions of people would lose coverage and that costs would spike substantially for people who are old, poor, or sick (or all three).

In November, finance minister Bill Morneau announced upcoming changes to the Temporary Foreign Workers program, which will simplify and speed up the hiring process for high - growth (mainly tech) companies recruiting from abroad.

The federal budget to be released this Wednesday by Finance Minister Bill Morneau is likely to introduce several changes for average Canadian families and investors alike.

U.S. House Republicans are working on changes to their healthcare overhaul bill to provide more generous tax credits for older Americans and add a work requirement for the Medicaid program for the poor, House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Sunday.

The bill she sponsored — creating a committee for the next five years to study not just maternal mortality but also life - threatening complications, or severe maternal morbidity — sailed through the legislature, in part because of a change in governors.

Hill paraphrases Bill Gates in describing the timeline for the development of blockchain: «In the short term, we tend to overestimate what something should do, but in the long term we dramatically underestimate how fast it will actually change.»

Mayor Bill de Blasio has implemented a number of reforms to help rectify long - standing problems there, including hiring more staff, changing recruitment and training protocols for guards, and tripling the number of cameras.

Investor Bill Ackman called it a «CP Rising,» and asked investors to use a May proxy vote to push for a management change.

Though he does say that «things are changing,» pointing to The Hollywood Reporter giving him space for his piece, and other outlets reporting on the sexual assault allegations against Bill Cosby.

We hope the Fed's massive bill moves the company's bosses to change their tighfisted ways once and for all.

Johnson told The Wall Street Journal's Siobhan Hughes that Republicans would need to change the bill significantly for him to support it.

Whether you've had to spend a chunk of change lately for presents, bills or something else, it's easy to get stressed about having a relatively low income and high expenses.

I just knew that I wanted it gone and that single action of drawing a target around the bill caused a change in perspective for me, from one of hopelessness to one of purpose.»

The changes forced the debate to stretch for hours, as Republicans released a final version of their bill with adjustments scribbled in the margins of the text.

However, on Wednesday the Senate Public Utilities Committee canceled plans to send Senate Bill 58 to the floor for a full chamber vote at least until next year over concerns about the effects of the bill's proposed chanBill 58 to the floor for a full chamber vote at least until next year over concerns about the effects of the bill's proposed chanbill's proposed changes.

Bill Ackman said his Pershing Square Capital Management hedge fund has taken a position in sportswear maker Nike and has no plans to push for change at the company, Reuters reported on Jan. 25.

The reconciliation process would be expanded to allow for changes in discretionary programs and for multiple reconciliation bills each year.

And those changes enable the bill to pay for a permanent cut in the corporate tax rate, from 35 to 20 percent.

Just last week, House Speaker Paul Ryan said lawmakers were putting the «finishing touches» on a new health care bill — one that reportedly might scrap protections for people with preexisting conditions — while Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin reassured Americans they can soon expect to see proposals for «the most significant change to the tax code since Reagan.»

House and Senate negotiators agreed to a number of changes in the bill, most notably lowering the top income tax rate for individuals to 37 percent from its current level of 39.6 percent.

Canada Senators push for changes to Ottawa's cannabis bill, Globe and Mail U.S. pushes for NAFTA deal in week or two or «you start having a problem», Financial Post Critics decry lack of «democratic participation» over Sidewalk Labs» proposed neighbourhood, Toronto Star

If you're about to change jobs, face a large tax bill, sell an appreciated investment, receive an inheritance, or retire, it might make sense for you to donate your non-cash assets to a charity via a Schwab Charitable account.

Budget Omnibus Bills should be restricted to proposed tax changes only and all proposed spending initiatives should be presented either through the Main Estimates or through separate legislation, submitted to the applicable Parliamentary Committee for review.

Further catalysts for capital spending could come from the push in Washington DC to reduce regulations and the proposed US corporate tax changes laid out in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act bill, particularly a permanent reduction in the corporate tax rate and a one - time tax break for repatriated overseas corporate earnings.

Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau has the power to change the tax system to make it harder for high earners to avoid taxes, but it's going to take political will

Instead, the federal government has introduced changes to programs (Canada Health Transfer, elderly benefits, etc.) in the Budget Implementation Bill, without providing a proper context for the need for change.

«His arrival was billed as a positive change in culture for Uber, yet he hasn't bothered to visit the office or even get in touch.

The change was enough to win support for the House bill from a key holdout, the National Federation of Independent Business.

Other changes in the House bill are directed at businesses, including a further rate reduction for certain qualified «pass - through» firms that send their earnings to their owners to be taxed as individual income.

Directing emergency funds to areas hit by natural disasters had traditionally been quick bipartisan exercises, but that changed after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 — when the Republican Study Committee, a group of House conservatives, pushed spending cuts to compensate for the approximately $ 200 billion expected in Katrina relief — including cutting farm subsidies, Amtrak funding and postponing the Medicare prescription - drug bill Republicans had approved two years earlier.

More commonly, changes in inflation are referred to as changes in The Cost of Living; the everyday items we buy get more expensive and our heating and gas bills go up, for example.

Florida Governor Rick Scott announced Friday that he had signed the school safety bill that makes significant changes to gun laws, school security, and funding for mental health treatment.

A proposal to reduce the amount of ethanol in gas could mean big changes for gas prices and grocery bills.

The bill would change the minimum age for all gun purchases to 21 from 18 — a provision that would have prohibited the Parkland gunman, Nikolas Cruz, 19, from legally buying the rifle he used in his massacre.

The bill called for sweeping changes to current tax law.

The bill also changes tax provisions for American companies abroad: Corporations will no longer have to pay corporate taxes on money they claim to have earned abroad — a move that could encourage companies to keep income in foreign tax havens.

The bill changes the mortgage interest deduction, lowering the cap for newly issued loans to $ 750,000 from the current $ 1 million threshold.

After Republicans spent the greater part of the year pushing unsuccessfully to repeal Obamacare, tax reform was the last frontier for major legislative change in Trump's first year in office — a reality that served as a major motivator to get the tax bill done by Christmas.

B.C. taxpayers can't afford these sorts of sweetheart deals in a time of austerity, especially when the Minister of the Environment admitted that the fees paid by Nestle and oil and gas companies likely wouldn't even pay the government's bill for administration related to the legal changes.

Since 2007, Budget Omnibus Bills have been used to include many legislative changes vaguely mentioned in the Budget, or for that matter, even mentioned in the Budget.

Yes, so what I'm looking — What i'm looking for is reasonable change with the United States Congress and bills that are passed before I get back to school.

The biggest change to SNAP within the 2018 Farm Bill is a significant tightening of work requirements for «Able Bodied Adult Without Dependents» between the ages of 18 and 59.

The bill passed last year revised portions of the Banking Act to account for changes in the economy driven by the growth of telecommunications technologies.

Thereafter, the House Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee amended the bill changing the language of the exemption to exclude «persons who engage in the business of selling or issuing payment instruments or stored value solely in the form of convertible virtual currency; or receive convertible virtual currency for transmission to another location» from the licensing requirement.

As Randy Thomasson, the president of a group in opposition to the bill, SaveCalifornia.com, explained to CBN News, «AB 2943 is only triggered when money is being exchanged for «sexual orientation change efforts.

The government's controversial Lobbying Bill has been temporarily put on hold following months of pressure from religious groups, charities, thinktanks and NGOs to give it further scrutiny and for major changes to be made before it is passed.