Sentences with phrase «holding down taxes»

Certainly, the interests of teachers in ensuring adequate educational investment are far stronger than they are for most voters, who don't have children in the school system and may be more concerned about holding down taxes than investing in the education of other people's kids.

The GOP slate's plan consists of holding down taxes, creating a business friendly environment and eliminating waste.

Many district officials already have told residents they face a squeeze next year between holding down taxes while expanding instructional services needed to prep students for lessons and tests aligned with rigorous Common Core academic standards.

That's why today we can contemplate holding down taxes.

The focus on holding down taxes, Kremer says, has had unintended consequences.

Instead, I want to explain why fiscal conservatives should rally around this idea as a way to hold down taxes.

«He has a strong, proven record in Babylon as someone who can hold down taxes and spending while maintaining core services.

In 2011, his last year in office, he applied, with the council's approval, some $ 800,000 from the fund balance to hold down the tax rate.

The Babylon and Huntington school districts overestimated expenditures in repeated budget cycles, leading to surpluses that could have held down tax levies, according to a state audit.

Babylon and Huntington were written up in March for overestimating expenses in repeated budget cycles, leading to surpluses that could have been used to hold down taxes.

Herkimer County Administrator James Wallace said: «County governments are among the leanest of any level of governments, because we have managed for years with the need to hold down taxes while providing mandated services.

Ryanair considered painting plane with logo of extra-marital dating site 31 Aug 2013 While the government crows about holding down tax rates.

Putting all the weight on the poor might appeal to some conservatives and some business leaders as a way to hold down taxes, because enhanced spending is only required for a relatively small percentage of the population.

Mayors who must balance the need to invest in kids against the strong desire of many voters to hold down taxes?

Want to hold down the tax bill that your funds generate?

Not exact matches

Ticking off every demand the New Democrats put on their long list — from giving motorists a break on their insurance to delaying and eliminating some corporate tax breaks — the Liberals have thrown down the gauntlet and put the party that holds the balance of power between a rock and a hard place.

«There's a mentality of hunker down and hold onto cash,» Francois Chadwick, national tax leader at the KPMG Venture Capital Practice, says in the report.

Speaking at the CERAWeek by IHS Markit conference in Houston, Cornyn and Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski warned the taxes could hold back investments in oil and gas infrastructure, alienate allies and water down the benefits of tax cuts and deregulation.

Several of Canada's biggest lenders have indicated they expect to record a write down to reduce the value of deferred tax assets already held on company balance sheets as a result of tax changes under U.S. President Donald Trump, but expect a lift to earnings in the long term.

Have you ever been driving down the street during tax season and see people that dress up like the Statue of Liberty or Uncle Sam, holding signs to advertise tax preparation services?

Lower corporate taxes, as Stantcheva and others have argued, raise managerial incentives to hold down wages on behalf of shareholders.

Iceland and Greenland have approached the company to try to persuade it to build mining operations in their countries which offer «similar power rates, along with tax breaks and incentives... [p] lus, the usually low temperatures there hold down the costs of cooling high - powered computers.»

September 20, 2017 — As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government doubles down on plans to change the way Canadian small business owners are taxed, entrepreneurs themselves are skeptical of one of the proposed changes: New rules for taxing passive investments held by businesses.

By holding down housing prices, it will save labor from having to pay an equivalent amount in income tax.

Conservatives want to hold government spending and taxes down.

Trustee John Mazzorana noted that the referendum in which voters turned down a tax increase to finance a recreation center was held in the spring of 1996, but that voters later that year approved a tax hike to buy Yunker Farm.

School aid holds down property taxes.

He's proven he can hold taxes down.»

«Sometimes, some of these issues take a lot longer to negotiate and compromise with, and you shouldn't be holding up funding for our schools, and funding for our roads, and funding for local governments to keep property taxes down, because of some of these major, broader public policy issues that should be kept out of the budget.»

The devil is in the details, so let's continue to hold out hope, but if the budget does not address either mandates or a tax cap, its just more of the same — kicking the can either down the road or to another level of government (counties, towns).

He also promised to continue to enact the Dream Act, to offer college aid to children of immigrants in the country illegally, hold down the state's near highest in the nation property taxes, and to make New York's education system the best in the nation.

And as mayor, he's proved he can run a lean, effective ship, he can hold taxes down, and get big results.

He was holding onto a reputation as a tenant advocate, and he was staring down a session filled with major real estate questions, including the renewal of rent laws and the 421a tax credit.

It holds down property taxes.

Despite news that billionaire Warren Buffett's is investing in New York City real estate, the industry is still held down by unaffordably high rents and rising property taxes, according to John Catsimatidis, the top gun at development firm Red Apple Group and a former mayoral candidate.

With Republicans in control of the State Senate, Mr. Cuomo will have a smoother path to continuing his efforts to hold down spending and cut taxes.

Cuomo's been a supporter of the state's property tax cap, and has held the growth of state spending down to 2 % per year.

Many may think that it will finally hold down their largest property tax bill: schools.

On Dec. 7, as Cuomo was preparing to take part in a conference call to discuss the impact of the Republican tax plan, a number of reporters trooped down from the legislative press room to Cuomo's offices to stage a protest against the fact that he had gone almost six months without holding a real, live news conference at the Capitol.

Tax hikes that would have raised more money for education in Illinois were voted down in 48 of 60 local school district referendums, or 80 percent of the ballot initiatives held across the state on Nov. 5.

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With mutual funds you sometimes you even have the strange situation where your fund is down for the year, but because the fund manager sold stocks that had appreciated and held the losers, you'll be forced to pay capital gains taxes on the recognized gains.

In addition, the CRA will continue to build on its capacity to detect and crack down on tax cheats and ensure that those who choose to break the law face the consequences and are held accountable for their actions.»

If you determine the activist wants to unlock value when there is a discrepancy between the value of an asset on the books and the value of an asset in the real - world (i.e. a real estate holding), but you determine that selling the asset would be a nightmare (maybe you live down the street from the property) and / or involves abusive tax treatment that not many people understand, you may shy away from following the activist.

In a lower return environment, the true tax deferral benefit of extending the average holding period of an investment from 2 years to 5 years — chopping the portfolio turnover rate from 50 % down to 20 % — is actually less than 5 basis points, which can be made up in the blink of an eye through a lower cost investment change or a mere day's worth of relative returns (not to mention weeks, months, or years)!»

But if the 4 % bonds pay taxable interest and you hold them in a regular taxable account, you might be left with just 3.12 % after paying taxes — which means paying down the mortgage will give you a better return.

• Unlike in the U.S., underwriting standards for qualifying mortgage borrowers in Canada have been maintained at prudent levels resulting in mortgage borrowers here being much more creditworthy; • Canadian mortgage lenders never offered low initial «teaser» rate mortgages that led to most of the difficulties for mortgage borrowers in the U.S.; • Most mortgages in Canada are held by their original lender, not packaged and sold to third parties as is typical in the U.S., and consequently, Canadian mortgage lenders have a vested interest in ensuring that their mortgage borrowers are creditworthy and not likely to default; • Only 0.3 % of Canadian mortgages are in arrears versus 4.5 % in the U.S. and what even before the start of the U.S. housing meltdown two years ago was 2 %; • Canadians tend to pay down their mortgage faster than in the U.S. where mortgage interest is deductible from taxes, which encourages U.S. homeowners to take equity out of their homes to finance other spending, a difference that is reflected in the fact that in Canada mortgage debt accounts for just over 30 % of the value of homes, compared with 55 % in the U.S.