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«Industry says bill is worth $ 20 million to $ 30 million to «state,» according to the memo.
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Instead, the industry said the bill would bring $ 11 billion in investments and create 20,000 new jobs.
Not exact matches
Mesher says Tsai's relationship with Alibaba's founder, Jack Ma, is reminiscent of some other significant tech industry pairings, notably Microsoft's Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, and BlackBerry's Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis.
Bill Gurley, a former Uber board member, said venture capital firm Benchmark ranked Harford among the tech industry's top CEOs.
The draft, seen by Bloomberg, was circulated on Friday and outlines how a targeted levy on gross revenues would increase the tax bill digital giants face, as the bloc seeks to raise money from an industry it says provides less than it should to public coffers.
«A strong economy and labor market are generating rising incomes and higher consumer confidence, fueling a strong year for the travel industry, which will continue into the holiday season,» said Bill Sutherland, a senior vice president for the travel organization AAA.
«What we're seeing is a textbook implosion with regard to exploration and production capital spending domestically because the industry was leveraged to very high oil prices,» says Bill Herbert, a senior researcher at Houston oil and gas investment bank Simmons & Co..
«If the Turnbull government was serious about saving the Reef they would be willing to take on the industry responsible for the damage,» said Bill McKibben, the American founder of anti-climate-change group 350.org.
The «controversial» move was highly criticized, given the importance of brand association in the car industry, said Bill Visnic, a senior editor for car research company Edmunds.
«The ability to find enough qualified drivers is one of our industry's biggest challenges,» said ATA President and CEO Bill Graves.
Ask to see results from past campaigns with clients in your industry, says Bill Stoller, founder of PublicityInsider.com, a Fort Lee, N.J. - based website that offers small businesses tips on public relations and social media.
Former Philadelphia real estate broker turned developer David Dinenberg (he worked with David Grasso on the Valley Square center in Bucks) says he has raised $ 2 million, from investors including Lindy Snider, daughter of Comcast Spectacor chairman Ed Snider, for his firm Kind Financial, a Los Angeles company that bills itself «the financial solutions platform provider for the quickly - growing legal cannabis industry.»
A coalition of industry associations says Bill Morneau must make more changes to the controversial tax proposals he first unveiled last summer
WASHINGTON / LOS ANGELES (Reuters)- U.S. President Donald Trump signed into law a steep tariff on imported solar panels on Tuesday, a move billed as a way to protect American jobs but which the solar industry said would lead to thousands of layoffs and raise consumer prices.
OTTAWA — Canada's insurance industry faces a $ 1 - billion GST bill at the end of this month, thanks to a federal tax move critics say smacks of a «banana republic.»
«Companies that have been relying on this system for 25 years suddenly have no workers,» said Bill Seiling, director of the Chesapeake Bay Seafood Industries Association.
Instead, it was an effort to regulate the coal mining industry right out of business,» said Rep. Bill Johnson, R - Ohio, who sponsored the disapproval measure on the stream protection rule.
«Any time you're disrupting an industry, people are going to try to take you down,» says Bill Maris, the president of Google Ventures.
The release of the Senate bill and a plan for the House to vote this week moves the nation one step closer to creating a tax system that would take a territorial approach, secure internationally competitive tax rates for manufacturers, reduce taxes on consumers, and help spur job creation within the grocery manufacturing industry,» said Pamela G. Bailey, GMA's president and CEO.
«We are proud to have worked alongside Members of Congress, as well as a broad coalition of public health and education groups and others in the food and beverage industry, to see this bill pass,» Neely said.
American Bakers Association (ABA) says the newly - proposed bill to synchronize the Fair Labor Act's definition of «employee» with that stated by federal law could benefit independent contractors in the baking industry.
Along with our current team of industry veterans like Master Sommelier Larry O'Brien and Master Sommelier John Blazon, to name just a few, Michael will allow us to expand that story both domestically and globally,» said Bill O'Connor, executive vice president, Jackson Family Wines.
While Schakowsky's bill was welcomed by school cafeteria managers and food - safety advocates, industry officials said the dissemination of safety records could stoke unnecessary public fears and prove difficult for cafeteria managers to interpret.
The Department of Health, the World Health Organisation and UNICEF have condemned a new draft law being pushed by the industry in the Congress, saying in a joint statement: «The draft House Bill... aims to support multinational companies while damaging the Filipino society: families, the mothers and children.»
«America's farmers and ranchers do their part to put food on our tables, and this bill is Congress's part to ensure the safety, productivity, and success of our agricultural industries,» House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers said.
The companies have the Department of Trade and Industry lobbying legislators on their behalf, while the Department of Health, WHO and UNICEF have said in joint statement that the draft bill: «aims to support multinational companies while damaging the Filipino society: families, the mothers and children.»
Pavley said she is «battling the powerful chemical industry,» which has defeated previous bills.
Democratic Rep. Scott Murphy's campaign is pressuring his GOP challenger, Chris Gibson, to take a position on the finance industry regulatory reform bill passed by the House last week, accusing him of trying to have it both ways by refusing to say how he would have voted on the measure.
That would be welcome news for many of Kennedy's constituents, but not Buffalo taxicab advocate Bill Yuhnke, who said he believes it will take the state at least 90 days to get infrastructure in place for the new industry.
Unite, the country's biggest union, said that the postponement of Paul Blomfield MP's High Cost Credit Private Members» Bill in the House of Commons must not be the last word on measures to tackle this growing and worrying industry.
«The government must rightly lead from the front on this, but we want everyone - the public, industry, parliament - to have their say to help us ensure that the bill really delivers.»
President of the Westchester County Association Bill Mooney said, «New York has a rich history of commerce, industry, and innovation.
Assemblyman Bill Magee, Chair of the Assembly Agriculture Committee, said, «The agricultural sector is a vital contributor to economic growth across the state and by welcoming new opportunities and markets, we help make this key industry even stronger.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said Friday that his major concern about legalizing marijuana is that big corporations will take over the industry and exploit its «addictive» nature to try to hook kids, just like the tobacco companies.
In a recent Politico.com article, one unnamed executive was quoted as saying Gillibrand had «Chutzpah» to raise money from Wall Street, and then not stand up for the industry during the debate on the bill.
Say someone learns at a cocktail party that the airline industry plans to oppose an upcoming bill.
The Chairman, NUPENG and PENGASSAN Petroleum Industry Bill Committee, Mr. Chika Onuegbu, said in a statement, «This is indeed a milestone achievement, especially when you consider that the PIGB is not an Executive Bill.
Senate President Bukola Saraki, has said the National Assembly will ensure the Petroleum Industry Bill is passed by December this year.
He said the unions expected the passage of other aspects of the PIB, namely, the Petroleum Fiscal Framework Bill; Petroleum Industry Downstream Administration Bill; the Petroleum Industry Revenue Management Framework Bill; and the Petroleum Host Community Bill.
Just a weeks after some of his top staffers faced ridicule from the City Council over their apparent cluelessness about key details about his plan to regulate the horse - carriage industry, Mayor Bill de Blasio said he believed the body would surely pass the proposal.
Assembly sponsor and Health Committee Chair Richard Gottfried says his bill would take advantage of the burgeoning new industry of medical marijuana growing in other states, where new strains of the drug are being developed to treat more conditions.
He said: «The bill tries to drive a false wedge between government, industry, employees and the public by restricting rights — and at worst criminalising — ordinary working people, from midwives to factory workers to challenge low - pay or health and safety concerns.
A week after a crane collapse killed a man in Lower Manhattan, Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled a rigorous new regulatory regime he said would stop the recent spike in deaths in the construction industry.
But some local businessmen are hoping Mr. Bellone will reconsider, saying the boater safety bill needs to be rewritten to avoid harming the regional marine industry.
But Captain Joe Frohnhoefer, owner of Southold - based Sea Tow International, which offers towing and other services for boaters in distress, said he worries that the bill could hurt the marine industry and the sale of boats and would be impossible to enforce in such a short time.
He said that it was unthinkable that the Senate was about to discuss the Petroleum Industry Bill without a representation from the state.
«This bill is a targeted assault against our values, punishing New Yorkers because we support women's reproductive rights and including the Collins / Faso amendment which would devastate the state's health care industry, put millions of New Yorkers at risk, and increase the total cost of this bill on New York to $ 6.9 billion,» Cuomo said.
Taxi medallion owners, who in 2013 were part of an industry that gave NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign donations, say he is betraying them by capitulating to Uber on wheelchair accessibility.
Critics say the tax bill looms like a «dagger» over New York City — particularly the real estate industry — reducing breaks that many in the region heavily lean on, despite cuts for corporations and the wealthy.
«A no vote on this bill lights the wick to a stick of dynamite that will blow up our racing industry,» said Sen. Eric Adams, D - Brooklyn and chairman of the chamber's racing and wagering committee.