Sentences with phrase «government using my tax»

This is not fair to the working middle class because the Federal Government uses the tax system to encourage a lot of corporate behavior.

But those that pay the extra premium are still paying it to a plan that is subsidized by the federal government using MY tax dollars.

I do NOT recommend eating fish or taking fish oil as our oceans are dying from these things... there's just no such thing as sustainable fishing anymore and it's so bad that the government uses our taxes to massacre dolphins and seals and other endangered marine life, for eating the fish they're meant to, instead of stopping the reason fish are so depleted in the first place, commercial fishing.

The governments use tax revenue to pay for public goods and services we use every day including health and community services, national defence and public education, as well as infrastructure like roads and railways.

Americans wouldn't tolerate the latter, and we shouldn't tolerate the government using our tax money to encourage us to give it even more of our money (and freedom), meanwhile drowning out other voices with a tidal wave of statist shilling.»

Not exact matches

The authors used tax and transfer data from 2008 to examine what people paid in taxes and received in transfers from the government.

In 1969, government officials noticed that 155 people with high incomes were legally using so many deductions and other tax breaks and that they were paying absolutely nothing in federal income taxes.

This fact of life matters because we use those guesses to make important decisions about, for instance, government tax and spending policies.

This means that you can use those taxes that would have gone to the government and put it towards investing.

According to estimates produced by government tax researchers, which used 2010 taxpayer data, small businesses make up 99 percent of all American businesses.

These companies are using several different strategies to lower their taxes, but the government just keeps adding to their arsenal.

Last year, Singapore, a trading hub of the world's largest commodity companies, came under scrutiny from the governments of some resource - producing countries such as Australia who said they suspect the companies are using units in the Southeast Asian financial center to avoid tax.

These concessions are popular with families but Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page is calling for a review of the government's use of such «tax expenditures» on the grounds they don't receive as much review by Parliament as program spending, among other reasons.

Yes, you should report these gains on your tax return, but strictly speaking the government might not have a way of ever knowing about them, unless the bank account you used to purchase bitcoins gets audited.

WASHINGTON, Jan 8 (Reuters)- Two U.S. Democratic politicians asked a government watchdog on Monday to scrutinize implementation of President Donald Trump's tax law, warning that the administration could use new tax guidelines to create the appearance of a large middle - class tax cut ahead of the 2018 mid-term elections.

Because so many of the new jobs created in recent years have been self - employed, it's reduced the amount of tax the government can collect and use for public services.

The study's authors say they used the same methods researchers developed in a 2009 report titled «State and Local Government Sales Tax Revenue Losses from Electronic Commerce,» compiled by business professors at the University of Tennessee.

Payroll tax is usually calculated as a percentage of total employee salaries and is used by the government to pay for things like income tax, MediCare and Social Security.

And then there are just people who are worried that the government might use their census data to cross-reference it against other information they've given the government (income being the obvious example - anyone know someone who plays fast and lose with their taxes?).

debt obligations of the U.S. government that are issued at various intervals and with various maturities; revenue from these bonds is used to raise capital and / or refund outstanding debt; since Treasury securities are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government, they are generally considered to be free from credit risk and thus typically carry lower yields than other securities; the interest paid by Treasuries is exempt from state and local tax, but is subject to federal taxes and may be subject to the federal Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT); U.S. Treasury securities include Treasury bills, Treasury notes, Treasury bonds, zero - coupon bonds, Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS), and Treasury Auctitax, but is subject to federal taxes and may be subject to the federal Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT); U.S. Treasury securities include Treasury bills, Treasury notes, Treasury bonds, zero - coupon bonds, Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS), and Treasury AuctiTax (AMT); U.S. Treasury securities include Treasury bills, Treasury notes, Treasury bonds, zero - coupon bonds, Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS), and Treasury Auctions

Beginning in the 2018 tax year the federal government introduced a number of changes to the tax code to curb so - called «income sprinkling», a tactic used by some higher - income small business owners to shift income to lower - taxed family members.

Funds may also not be used to reimburse a business owner for money he or she has previously invested in the business or be used to repay money owed the government, such as a tax debt.

They also may not be used to reimburse a business owner for money he or she has previously invested in the business or used to repay money owed to the government, such as a tax debt.

The real reason may be that they provide flexibility: people who want to consume more can use their tax cut for that purpose; people who want to save more can use theirs to buy up the new government bonds.

This may involve using privatization proceeds to pay down debt, higher corporate taxes, and even higher income taxes if other forms of wealth transfer are robust enough to support them, but one way or another total government debt must be reduced, or at least its growth must be contained to les than real GDP growth.

Having acknowledged the need to turn from the overdependence on fossil fuels to more environmentally friendly sources of energy, the government has tried to encourage the production of automobiles that use alternative sources of fuel by trying to give tax incentives to any buyers of such cars.

Now, in a consultation paper released July 18, the federal government proposes measures to constrain the use of private corporations to gain tax advantages.

Trump is trying to rearrange the tax code for personal benefit, and if he succeeds, he'll net more money that he ever could by just using the government to market his resorts.

Under the previous Liberal government, Cabinet agreed on the «one third rule» for using the surplus - one third of the surplus went to tax cuts; one third to new spending; and, one third to debt reduction.

In recent months, revelations from European authorities about the tax avoidance strategies used by Google, Starbucks and Amazon have all stirred public anger and spurred several European governments, as well as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a Paris - based research organization for the world's richest countries, to discuss measures to close the loopholes.

Will any of the five provincial governments have the spunk to request an opt - out from this harmonization initiative in order to instead use their share of the trust to finance targeted tax measures or other industrial strategies that promote capital investment?

In one paper he co-wrote in the spring of 2002, just months after he joined Goldman Sachs to lead its effort to win investment banking business from European governments, Mr. Draghi argued that governments might use financial derivatives like interest rate swaps «to stabilize tax revenue and avoid the sudden accumulation of debt.»

Notwithstanding Wednesdayâ $ ™ s promise to limit the federal spending power, paying provincial governments to change their tax structures is a rather assertive use of it.

Three weeks ago, I wrote, «Budget 2007 used the federal spending power quite aggressively to pay provincial governments to eliminate their Corporate Capital Taxes.

The upshot is that developers use one set of statistics and logic to calculate their «total returns» on their properties, but support a different logic for use by government statisticians and Congressional authors of the nation's tax laws, whose support from the FIRE sector depends largely on their not understanding its essential dynamics.

Some of Canada's highest - earning professionals have been reaping large tax gains for decades by splitting income with their spouses using private corporations, but the practice has fallen into a «dark corner» of tax rules and has received little government scrutiny, according to a new academic study.

The government has not alleged any wrongdoing on the part of Coinbase and its petition is predicated on sweeping statements that taxpayers may use virtual currency to evade taxes.

For the past week, Trump has blasted Bezos and Amazon for paying «little or no taxes» to various levels of government and for using the U.S. postal system as its subsidized «Delivery Boy» to put retailers out of business.

The US government used to subsidize and encourage home ownership though the mortgage interest and property tax deduction.

The Harper government had already promised to use the surpluses to allow income splitting for tax purposes for families with children under the age of 18; to extend the fitness tax credit to adults; and, to reduce debt by $ 3 billion a year.

While the government charges a hefty tax penalty to withdraw funds early (10 % to 30 % immediately but possibly adjusted when you file your taxes), they do make exceptions if you're using it to buy a house or go back to school, as long as you put the money back within 10 years for education loans and 15 years for home purchases.

The government has lots of regulations set up to keep people from using their spousal RRSPs to cheat on their taxes — and that can make it a little complicated to navigate the accounts.

The Three Year Attribution Rule applies when the money is taken out too early and the government thinks that the spouses are in cahoots to use this retirement - planning tool as a way to lower their tax bill instead of saving for retirement.

Enterprise zone: A geographically targeted tax, expenditure, and regulatory inducement used by state and local governments since the early 1980s and by the federal government since 1993.

Uganda is proposing a tax on social media use in a bid to curb gossip online and to raise billions of shillings in government revenue.

The central bank prints money, lends it to the government, and the government sooner or later spends it (or uses it to cut taxes or increase transfer payments).

While their $ 0 tax liability was legal within the tax code at the time — they were using federally allowed income deductions and tax breaks appropriately — the government was embarrassed and moved quickly to legislate a solution.

And let's not forget about the widely - used tax credits that the government is eliminating.

The government is going to lower taxes on small businesses from 10.5 % to 9 % in 2019, while making sure the small business tax rate is not being used for personal advantage.

A group of Arizona legislators, for instance, recently introduced a bill that would allow residents to make income tax payments using cryptocurrencies, which the government would then convent into fiat currency.