Sentences with phrase «from federal taxpayers»

Aside from a technology leap of epic proportions aided by federal research labs, the difference today is a hefty dose of support from federal taxpayers and a tweaking of state laws.

In 2013, the Walton family received $ 8 billion in tax breaks, $ 6.2 billion of which came from federal taxpayer subsidies handed to them because employee wages are so low.

From the federal taxpayer side, we have the much - maligned (well, by the usual suspects) federal production tax credit for wind.

Not exact matches

The ostensible goal of the individual AMT is to prevent wealthy taxpayers from paying little to no federal tax.

By narrowly focusing on the $ 10,000 SALT cap, state lawmakers are pursuing an economic fix for the very taxpayers who will benefit most from the federal tax bill.

A study that analyzed tax data from 2012 to 2016 found 17 percent of taxpayers faced a federal tax bill.

ALBANY, N.Y., March 31 - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and the state legislature agreed late on Friday on a $ 168 billion budget for fiscal 2019, including measures aimed at offsetting damage to taxpayers from new federal tax changes.

Under the new law, taxpayers can only deduct $ 10,000 in combined property taxes and other state and local taxes (SALT) from their federal taxes.

Taxpayers would lose the ability to deduct their state and local property and other taxes from their federal taxes, a break used by about 44 million people (or 30 percent of tax filers.)

In other words, Quebec and federal taxpayers are being asked to pony up to protect the financial well - being of the family, which, incidentally, received approximately $ 150 million in dividend payments from Bombardier over the last decade, even as the company has yet to repay all the money its borrowed from the federal government in the past.

Each of those four banks also have an outsized presence on Wall Street; each of them received taxpayer bailouts during the 2008 crash; each received secret, below - market interest rate loans from the Federal Reserve during the crisis; and three of them (JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citibank) are currently holding tens of trillions of dollars in derivatives within the insured banking subsidiary — meaning there would be a forced taxpayer bailout if the derivatives blew up the bank.

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Under House Bill 2014, introduced by Representative Mark Finchem (R - Tucson), Arizona taxpayers will simply back out all precious metals «gains» and «losses» reported on their federal tax returns from the calculation of their Arizona adjusted gross income (AGI).

We can not know taxpayers are protected until Equifax is banned from all federal contracts.»

The underlying assumption is that tax exemption is a public subsidy, a form of federal financial assistance, and that other taxpayers must make up the taxes not exacted from an exempt entity.

As for their salaries, the «operation of the program» is funded through (a) federal reimbursement, which is derived from taxpayer dollars and (b) cash payments from district parents who can afford to pay for all or a portion of their children's meals.

The campaign fights such «license to discriminate» bills on the state and federal level and builds support for the Every Child Deserves a Family Act, a federal bill prohibiting child welfare agencies that receive taxpayer funds from discriminating against LGBTQ youth or prospective foster and adoptive parents.

Regarding the change in the PIT outlook, the Enacted Budget Financial Plan says «taxpayers and employers appear to have been anticipating that the Federal government will lower personal income tax rates in 2017, prompting a shift of capital gains from 2016 to 2017» to an extent greater than DOB anticipated in the Executive Budget plan.

That means taxpayers would no longer be able to deduct the amount they pay in state and local taxes — like income or property taxes — from their federal tax return, making it more burdensome for high - tax states to raise money for transit improvements.

He said in some parts of the state, including upstate New York, most taxpayers will benefit from the federal tax changes and the new, larger standard deduction.

Thanks to a new state law, East Hampton taxpayers will have the right to force a vote on whether the town should accept money for East Hampton Airport from the Federal Aviation Administration, which imposes rules on how airports function as a condition of providing funding.

Despite his six - figure income funded by taxpayer dollars, Terry has since 2000 amassed nearly $ 1.2 million in federal liens from the Internal Revenue Service and more than $ 205,000 in state tax warrants.

Opening arguments began this week in the federal corruption trial of Pedro Espada, Jr., and his son Pedro Gautier Espada, who are accused of using the Soundview Healthcare Network as «their own taxpayer - funded piggy bank» by funneling more than $ 500,000 from the organization and spending it on cars, spa treatments, and other personal luxuries.

Without any state action, Cuomo said taxpayers, primarily from Westchester through Long Island, would pay $ 14.3 billion more in federal taxes.

Under the compromise, taxpayers will be able to deduct property taxes from their federal income taxes, but not state or local income taxes.

The Democratic governor accepted the money — and his officials handed out the government business without competitive bids — despite federal rules that bar campaign contributors from receiving taxpayer - financed state bond work.

And then (this part is new and part of Paladino's pre-primary media blitz), the focus turns to the «former liberal Congressman Rick Lazio,» who «voted for higher taxes and increased federal spending» and «took a $ 1.6 million bonus from a huge Wall Street bank getting a $ 25 billion - dollar taxpayer - financed bailout.

Cuomo is also pushing to expand charitable deductions for taxpayers in New York that could let them recover from the federal cap on deductions — a move that follows the broad outlines being considered by California officials, another high - tax state that is reacting to the SALT cap.

What Mr. Silver didn't say: He is trying to keep his taxpayer - financed pension, trying to stay out of prison and trying to forfeit as little cash as possible from the schemes that the federal government says netted him more than $ 5 million over the decades.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - New York taxpayers stand to lose about $ 68 billion that they now deduct from their federal taxes if President - elect Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan move forward with their tax reform plans next year, according to state officials and tax experts.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo hinted in his State of the State speech on January 3 that he might back tax hikes on people he says will benefit the most from the recent federal tax overhaul, which includes cuts to corporations and some wealthy taxpayers.

He says in some parts of the state, including upstate New York, most taxpayers will benefit from the federal tax changes and the new, larger standard deduction.

Taxpayers may now deduct the amount of their state and local taxes from the federal taxes.

He discussed at length how the law ends the longtime practice of letting taxpayers deduct state and local taxes from their Federal income taxes, which he said will take a significant chunk of New Yorker's income next year.

The $ 10.5 million energy and agricultural waste management project was funded by local, state and federal taxpayer dollars, including about $ 1.5 million that came directly from Cayuga County government's savings accounts.

Members of support staff aggressively search for, secure, and monitor grants from other state and federal sources, thus lessening the burden to the county taxpayer.

Taxpayers may now deduct the amount of their state and local taxes from federal taxes.

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.

Cuomo and House Democrats from New York — including Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D - Cold Spring — have argued the federal government should reimburse the state for the counties» Medicaid cost share if it wants to ease the property - tax burden on county taxpayers in New York.

Cuomo seemed to be of two minds about Alain Kaloyeros, who is facing both state and federal charges alleging that he engaged in bid rigging on contracts worth millions of dollars of taxpayer money and has been suspended without pay from his post as president of SUNY Poly.

Officials say that unless New York changes its tax code to delink it from the federal code, state taxpayers could see their tax burden increase by $ 1.5 billion — potentially worsening the pain to New Yorkers already dealing with the curbing of state and local tax deductibility.

If taxpayers and lawmakers were expecting that a new 37 - page report from the state Tax and Finance Department would provide a definitive road map of how New York might sidestep the effects of Trump's new federal tax plan and its sharp reduction in the deductibility of state and local taxes, they instead got a view of just how complicated this is.

Taxpayers would receive a tax credit to lower their state income tax liability and also would be able to deduct the amount from their federal taxes.

Gov. Cuomo hinted in his State of the State speech on January 3 that he might back tax hikes on people he says will benefit the most from the recent federal tax overhaul, which includes cuts to corporations and some wealthy taxpayers.

New York officials say the Republican plan will leave 1 million state residents without health insurance and transfer $ 4.5 billion in costs from the federal government to state taxpayers.

Regardless of the shift in Medicaid costs, the GOP healthcare plan would leave 1 million New York residents without health insurance and transfer $ 4.5 billion in costs from the federal government to state taxpayers, according to state officials.

In the Manhattan federal corruption case, Howe has admitted to pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars from developers and from rigged bids on state contracts linked to the upstate Buffalo Billion economic - revitalization plan — at the same time he was working as a consultant to the taxpayer - funded program.

Just as in the aftermath of 9/11, it is once again the onus of the federal, state and city governments to determine how to allocate taxpayer money to the businesses and residents — who have this time suffered from the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy.

Both the Senate and Cuomo have proposed decoupling the state tax code from the federal law in order to soften the impact of the federal tax changes on New York taxpayers.

Trump said he «didn't think» Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin took a government jet from New York to Washington, DC, even though federal investigators are investing the flight that cost taxpayers $ 25,000.