Sentences with phrase «goal of raising taxes»

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Seattle's goal is to raise $ 75 million from taxes, three - fourths of which will be used to build 1,800 affordable housing units in the city.

To fund his goals Fuleihan must identify cost savings or the mayor - elect could be faced with the unpopular choice of raising property taxes - something de Blasio did not explicitly rule out when asked at the announcement.

Cuomo has said he does not want to raise taxes in 2014, a year when he is up for reelection, but did say in his State of the State speech that he shares the mayor's ultimate goal.

Its goal is to raise taxes on households with income over $ 250,000 by 3.45 percent, up to a total of 10.3 percent.

Making them better is one of his main goals, but he does not want to raise taxes for that purpose.

The Our Schools Now campaign is a ballot initiative effort that would put a question on the ballot in November 2018 asking Utahns if they would raise their own taxes if they could be sure that money went directly to education with a primary goal of reducing class sizes and improving education turnouts in Utah.

In the will of the voters as expressed in the referendum vote, I find no evidence that the community shares Board President Howard's stated goal to not raise property taxes and here and elsewhere I find much that supports reasonable tax increases.

I looked at in vain at the statues governing Boards of Education, at the MMSD Policies, at the District Philosophy, at the Mission Statement, at the Strategic Plan for any reference that could support not raising property taxes as a goal superior to providing the best possible education for the students in their charge.

Edit: Assumptions that usually land me in hot water are: long term rates at 4 % to 5 %, salary adjustments of ~ 4 % per year up to a cap (a cap equal to what a senior person in my industry is paid, has mimicked my salary raises surprisingly well actually), I assume a 20 % tax rate on earnings averaged over all accounts, then I seek to replace an «inflation» adjusted 100K at ~ 1.5 % per year (my real goal would be a CPI adjusted 100K into the future, which very likely would not be driven by inflation, but no one has one of those crystal balls).

A non-profit organization helps to focus your efforts, gives you a platform that is easily recognizable, gives you the legal status to raise money without paying taxes, and can mobilize large numbers of people towards your common goal.

If it is a member of the political elite, whose goal it is to raise direct or indirect carbon taxes in order to have more public funds to shuffle around, we have one end user requirement.

OREA, Hudak says, had three goals for the plan and was successful in having them all realized: to make sure supply was an important part of the solution; to consider a vacancy tax («because no one has any sympathy for a speculator who buys a house and then leaves it sitting empty») and to have the provincial real estate act reviewed and updated to help raise industry standards — something Hudak says the province has committed to doing.

The goal of the campaign was to convince the provincial government not to allow the Municipal Land Transfer Tax to be levied by cities beyond Toronto and to raise awareness of the implications of another tTax to be levied by cities beyond Toronto and to raise awareness of the implications of another taxtax.

With the goal of clarifying the concerns raised by taxpayers and tax professionals, the IRS emphasized in a media statement that «despite newly - enacted restrictions on home mortgages, taxpayers can o -LSB-...]