Sentences with phrase «for tax abuse»

This reflects recommendations in the Better Budgets report published earlier this year by CIOT, the Institute for Government and the Institute for Fiscal Studies.3 Evidence based evaluation would also allow concerns, justified or not, that these reliefs are used as vehicles for tax abuse, to be properly addressed.
Deposit - taking licences of banks and auditing licences of accountancy firms should be suspended for tax abuses.

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Experts say that for the business owners, tax abuse comes in the form of living off their business.
If the U.S. were to implement a border tax on Mexican imports to pay for Trump's wall, would it really be in Canada's interest to say nothing as the other junior partner in NAFTA was so abused?
These benefits would (i) largely go to developers and contractors for infrastructure projects like new pipelines that would happen even without new incentives and so be highly regressive; (ii) raise costs by failing to reach the tax - free pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and international investors who are the most plausible sources of incremental infrastructure finance; (iii) not encourage at all the highest return maintenance projects like fixing potholes that do not yield a pecuniary return for investors; and (iv) by offering credits at an unprecedented 82 percent rate, invite all kinds of tax shelter abuse.
The 25 percent tax rate for pass - throughs is particularly galling, because it has no principle at all behind it, and will be the subject of widespread abuse, as taxpayers maneuver to squeeze their incomes into the pass - through business box.
These benefits would (i) largely go to developers and contractors for infrastructure projects like new pipelines that would happen even without new incentives and so be highly regressive; (ii) raise costs by failing to reach the tax - free pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and international investors that are the most plausible sources of incremental infrastructure finance; (iii) not encourage at all the highest return maintenance projects like fixing potholes that do not yield a pecuniary return for investors; and (iv) by offering credits at an unprecedented 82 per cent rate, invite all kinds of tax - shelter abuse.
After all, there are all sorts of unfair tax rules and abuses, including large corporations shifting income overseas to avoid Canadian taxes, the ability to deduct and split the fat pensions of government employees and even the ability for some to set up fake private companies to benefit from small business tax provisions.
The Consumer Federation of America, among others including myself, have written about the high cost of tax assistance services for low - income taxpayers and the potential for consumer abuse including price gouging.
He has thirty - nine convictions from twenty court appearances, for offenses including but not limited to tax avoidance, substance abuse, and physical assault.
Whereas the church can have more tax - free investments — after they pay for the cover - up of child abuse.
After one particularly offensive show on Aug 19, 2010 where he and his cohost, Crank, spent the morning railing against the «mentally diseased perverts» everyone else calls gay, preaching that women aren't equal to men and should be home raising the kids and making dinner, and Blacks need to kick their drug habits and get a job instead of freeloading off his hard earned tax dollars by trading in their food stamps for drug money, we started a blog documenting his abuses on the air waves.
Congress needs to stop this abuse by these idiots by lifting their tax exempt status for threatening any group of Americans.
Notice how quickly and easily those in government abuse their position and use these tax funds for self - gain.
What conservatives and libertarians are most animated about nowadays is the abuse of public - good authority, particularly as such authority has been misused for a very long time to tax and spend, not generally on public goods like defense but on wealth - transfer programs, such as social security, Medicare and Medicaid, and other entitlements — the kinds of programs, in other words, that have effectively bankrupted Greece, are threatening to bankrupt several other European nations, and are undermining the European Monetary Union.
All those abuse cases cost money we tax - payers are forced to bear for THEIR employees / former employees!
While everyone is quite rightly outraged by the abuses of the IRS in singling out conservative group for audits, intrusive inquiries, and endless delays on approval of their tax - exempt status, it has occurred to me that there is one simple solution to the problem that would not require nearly as....
its split between Isreal Egypt and Jordon in arms $ $ cash transfers that go from US tax coffers thru these countries back to «private» US arms contractors... so its worse than $ $ cash transfer many complain about for the poor and its hardly capitalism and it spreads arms weapons abusing capitalism through false incentives to prop up dictators like mubarak, abusive otherwise weak likud government, and essentially provides them incentive to have lobbyist in DC too from these 3 countries to keep it up..
A healthy baby saves state tax dollars: for every $ 1 spent on preventing an unhealthy birth, $ 6 is saved in neonatal intensive care costs, recurrent hospital and medical expenses paid by Medicaid, exceptional and remedial education, child abuse and neglect investigations, and disability and dependency costs.
For some, flexibility and resilience is taxed by postpartum mood disorders, traumatic birth experiences, medical conditions, or a past history of abuse.
Despite the opposition to the tax increases, the Senate GOP conference is also seeking new spending for education as well as a major boost in funding to fight heroin and opioid abuse.
«Instead of apologizing to his constituents for coming under a House Ethics investigation for potential insider trading and abuse of office violations, Collins has spent his time in Washington — when he's not voting to cut healthcare coverage and raise taxes for millions of New Yorkers — bragging to anyone who will listen about how much money he's made for himself and other members of Congress on this insider deal.
A Republican state lawmaker on Friday called for the end to film tax breaks after the revelations of sexual harassment and abuse by producer Harvey Weinstein.
The Advisory Panel on the proposed General Anti Abuse Rule (GAAR) should be wholly independent, with no representatives of HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), say the two leading professional bodies for tax practitioners.
The state has a vital role to play in both ensuring that all companies that operate under its jurisdiction meet their social obligations (by, for example, taxing them on all revenue generated within a territory), while at the same time promoting forms of corporate governance that cement company independence as a means of protecting against the abuse of economic power.
The UK's tax code is hideously complex, damaging the economy and creating opportunities for abuse.
In a forthcoming report from New York University's Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management by Eric Kober entitled «Uses and Abuses of Value Capture for Transit,» Kober writes that the first, similar iteration of the proposal «diverts New York City's largest and most stable tax source in a manner that could affect the City's fiscal stability.»
Syracuse, NY - Jim Malatras investigated the abuse of the Empire Zone tax break program when he was the legislative director for former Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, critic - in - chief of state public authorities.
Residents can expect to see a decrease in taxes for the second year in a row and more funding for the fight against the county's growing epidemic of drug abuse.
«[Assembly Speaker Sheldon] Silver covered up sexual abuse of young interns and staffers for years, using hundreds of thousands of tax dollars to pay off victims, and Andrew Cuomo protected him from criminal investigation after Silver got caught doing it,» Mr. Astorino said.
NI numbers are required by most employers and can also be used to claim benefits, but a Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) memo seen by The Times suggests concerns about possible abuses are being overridden by the demands of tax collection.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo's top issues for the remainder of the session: Ethics reform, a «plan» to combat heroin abuse, a statewide cancer screening and prevention program and a replacement for the 421 - a tax abatement program that expired earlier this year.
Late budgets jobs and business leaving this state cronism politicians making a life long career out of getting elected to office it has to stop open your eyes people stop listening to the BS!Fiscal responsibility, term limits and accountablity is what we should be demanding and votng for.Every election it's always some specal interest group trying to spin something.Vote out every single incumbant impose our own term limits they are all parisites surviving on our hard earned money.JOBS, TAXES, CORUPTION, LATE BUDGETS, CRIMINAL CONDUCT, ABUSE OF POWER INEFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP, THE COST TO LIVE IN THIS STATE A GOOD JOB FOR YOUR CHILDREN, SOMETHING LEFT FOR YOUR FAMILY AFTER A LIFETIME OF WORKING HARD FOR IT ARE THE ISSUES!!!! HOMOSEXUALITY give me a break!
Only by pulling back the veil of secrecy, informing citizens of the atrocities that their tax money is funding and holding experimenters accountable for abusing animals in the name of science when more reliable, cruelty - free options exist, can we hope to bring scientific research into the modern age.
I am eagerly looking forward to continuing to lead the fight for toll relief, and to work on important issues like prescription drug abuse and the heroin epidemic and the education tax credit, which expands scholarship and programming opportunities.
It's easy to say you're against deficits, tax hikes and cuts in public services, and you're for fiscal discipline, living within one's means, cutting waste, fraud and abuse and all that other campaign pap.
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We join the call for an empowered intergovernmental body on tax which is mandated to set tax rules and empowered to enforce these rules — as a key step to ending the abuse of tax havens.
When you are being abused or hearing about children and parents being abused and harassed for opting out of the unfair and discriminatory Common Core SBAC test or when you are paying more in taxes and watching important school programs and services cut, now that thanks to our elected and appointed officials we are pissing away $ 100,000,000.00 a year forcing children to take a test that will tell us that students from rich families tend to do better and student from poor families tend to do worse on standardized tests.
The report contains news stories, criminal records, and other documents to detail abuses such as charter school operators embezzling funds, using tax dollars to illegally support other, non-educational businesses, taking public dollars for services they didn't provide, inflating their enrollment numbers to boost revenues, and putting children in potential danger by foregoing safety regulations or withholding services.
For the prekindergarten program alone, they identified $ 92,220 in present value benefits and $ 8,512 in present value costs in 2007 dollars — a benefit - cost ratio of 10.83 to 1.22 The benefits derived mainly from reduced public education expenditures due to lower grade retention and use of special education, reduced costs to the criminal justice system and victims of crime due to lower crime rates, reduced expenditures on child welfare due to less child abuse and neglect, higher projected earnings of center participants, and increased income tax revenue due to projected higher lifetime earnings of center participants.
Massachusetts has two bills pending — the first establishes an abuse registry funded by a pet food tax paid by consumers, and the second would fine any shelter, pet store or breeder violating the provision, with a fine of not less than $ 1,000 or imprisonment for a period of not more than one year for a first offense.
We are a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) agency that has been in the forefront of providing homeless, abused, sick and injured animals with humane care for more than 25 years, without any funding from Federal or State tax dollars.
We do ask that if you adopt a dog through our referral program, you make a tax - deductible donation to help us continue to care for other unwanted, abandoned, and abused Springers who need assistance.
Provided you manage to keep the budget strong and money in the coffers they are usually happy enough to side with proposals for new services, districts and the like while having a negative balance typically means they'll support a tax rise, something that is easily abused in Urban Empire, but little else.
-- stuttering at every turn, despite the game not taxing hardware — co-op functionality inexplicably dropped for PC SKU, making story mode a lonesome frustration with its dumb - ass «A» devoid of «I» — online functionality (Raid mode) is «paper planes» until further notice — «DLC» anal abuse that makes most prison shower blocks look like Lover's Lane...
«Electoral intervention is not supposed to be a non-profit's main activity, but these dark money groups are abusing their tax - exempt status by existing primarily as vehicles for corporations and wealthy donors to secretly influence elections,» Fischer noted, adding, «Some dark money non-profits might now use lobbying as an accounting trick to balance their books between electoral and non-electoral spending, leading to a spiraling cycle of non-stop campaigning and special interest influence, but with zero transparency or public accountability.»
The company that wants to build the mine, Indian firm Adani, has a global reputation for tax evasion, human rights abuses and ignoring environmental regulations.
Every tax that has been levied in the past has been spent on what ever the politicians want to spend it on, even the gas based road repair taxes collected, have been abused for other things.
For all their «ethical» screens and engagement and transparency, almost all of the formal pensions options are based on funds which invest at least some money in mainstream stocks in global companies, many of which are involved in the kind of issues — tax avoidance, animal abuse, short - termism, fossil fuels — that Ethical Consumer chooses to draw attention to.
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