Sentences with phrase «from general government revenues»

Drawn from general government revenues, OAS is, in effect, a welfare program.

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When the federal government mandates the levy rises to $ 40 per tonne in 2021 (up from $ 30 in Alberta currently), the NDP would stuff the extra funds into general revenue.

From 1990 to 2005, he was Director Fiscal Policy Division Department of Finance, responsible for overall preparation of the federal budget; preparation and assessment of medium - and long - term projections of federal revenues and expenses and implications for fiscal policy; analysis of fiscal conditions at both the federal and provincial levels; evaluation of various budget proposals; preparation of monthly Fiscal Monitor; with the Office of the Comptroller General (OCG), assessing and evaluating accounting standards proposed by the Public Sector Accounting Board (PSAB) of the CICA and recommending changes in government accounting policies; with the OCG, responsible for implementation of accrual accounting for the federal budget and the government's financial statements.

The potential impact of this shift on churches becomes apparent when one realizes that the average local government receives 64 per cent of its general revenue from property taxes and that churches own a vast amount of untaxed property.

And the only way the trust fund can get some cash to pay Social Security benefits is if the federal government draws it from general revenues or borrows the money — which, of course, it can't do because of the debt ceiling.

The Director General, Media and publicity to the State Governor Kingsley Fanwho in his twitter handles explained that the Government over the months have been able to pay full salaries through heavy borrowing and funds from the internally generated revenue (IGR).

That sidesteps the annual congressional appropriations process that divvies up what is known as discretionary spending, money from the government's general pot of tax and other revenue.

Wisconsin Association of School Boards government relations director Dan Rossmiller pointed to a 1976 state Supreme Court case that appears to forbid the state from taking property taxes from one district for use elsewhere, and the LFB has said that if money set aside by the state for education isn't enough to cover vouchers» overall cost, then general state revenues will be used.

In general, state governments provide the most funding, up to half of a district's funding with revenue usually coming from income and property taxes.

These and other organizations fear that vouchers, as general revenue from government coffers, will bring increased regulation and control of private education.

«Professor Spence said: «The issue of whether Amazon's deal with Luxembourg was a «sweetheart» one constituting state aid seems to deflect attention from the main issue here: namely, that Luxembourg has long operated as a de facto tax haven within the internal market, effectively depriving other EU governments, and the EU in general, of significant tax revenues.

However, he warned those who may be counting on nothing but government programs that Canada's Old Age Security and the Guaranteed Income Supplement are funded from general tax revenues.

Most Australians also receive a government pension financed from general tax revenue.

Most of General Dynamics» revenue is from the U.S. Government (60 %) with the remainder from U.S. commercial customers (15 %), and international commercial and military customers (25 %).

A couple of years after the amendments came into force, major Canadian unions took the government to court arguing that the government was reallocating these surpluses from the Employment Insurance Account to its general expenses in the Consolidated Revenue Fund, which constituted a misappropriation of moneys that were supposed to be earmarked for employment insurance.