Sentences with phrase «inequitable tax»

Most of that $ 11.6 billion that is going uncollected by Alberta's inequitable tax code is being left in the pockets of the province's richest individuals and most profitable corporations.

At a time of dire fiscal shortages, and suggested cuts to education and healthcare, it is critical to reform the system which creates the perverse incentives for politicians to pass such inequitable tax policies.

The inequitable tax burden that falls on the poor and the middle class must be redressed; the loopholes available to the wealthy must be closed so that our society can be preserved.

As such, it is an inequitable tax on low and middle - income workers.

Not exact matches

Mr. Macdonald singled out five federal tax measures as being the most inequitable to lower income people based on 2011 data — the dividend tax credit, partial inclusion of capital gains, the foreign tax credit, employee stock options and pension income splitting.

(In a recent column, he labeled as «radical fiscal immorality» Bush's request for $ 87 billion for Iraq with no new taxes to pay the bill) But he does not despise Republicans, often agreeing that market approaches are dynamic ways of organizing production, even though they are inequitable ways of organizing distribution.

The fact that inheritance taxes only apply to very large estates is, in my opinion, inequitable but not the subject here.

Stamp duty land tax is much more progressive than council tax, but is badly designed, inefficient and horizontally inequitable (with each household's tax bill depending on how often that household moves).

Speaking at a City Hall press conference with fellow Staten Island Republican and Council Member Joe Borelli, Malliotakis pledged to appoint a commission within 60 days of taking office, with a goal of producing changes to the complex property tax system in the City that's widely viewed as uneven and inequitable.

«First, what percentage of State funding should be used to equalize the disparity presented by our inherently inequitable property tax funding system; and second, what percentage of State and local aid should go to the poorer, lower performing schools.»

«Giving minimum wage workers a small increase over three years and linking it to a business tax break that will actually encourage the creation of more minimum wage jobs is unconscionable, especially in a state that already has the most inequitable income distribution in the nation,» said Donohue.

Those familiar with the governor's thinking say Mr. Cuomo views the mayor's plan as an inequitable one: If a prekindergarten program is paid for with tax revenue from the wealthy, then New York City could be at a distinct advantage over smaller and poorer municipalities around the state.

The New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled in December 1997 that the current system of paying for education with local property taxes was inequitable — and unconstitutional — and ordered the legislature to fix the problem by April 1 of this year.

(This is clearly the case with residential segregation, which spurred inequitable school financing systems that rely heavily on property taxes, handicapping poor neighborhoods.)

It's a trend that Filardo's report called «inherently and persistently inequitable» in the nation's schools because it places low - income districts with smaller tax bases at a clear disadvantage.

DFER makes no reference to regressive tax policy and inequitable funding formulas that keep families poor and schools under - resourced — actually poverty keeps families trapped.

«I hope that WFP mounts a vigorous campaign, especially on the issue of education, pointing out that the Cuomo administration has tolerated highly inequitable funding, limited the ability of districts to tax themselves to meet their needs, and shown preference for charter schools — which enroll 3 % of the state's children — over public schools.

The board provides recommendations to the Governor, JCCPO, and the legislature regarding the implementation and impact of the act with a focus on the carbon tax impacts and avoiding inequitable effects on citizens and energy intensive trade exposed businesses.

We have a unique opportunity to end the rancorous debate about climate change, a debate that is poisoning the air — the political air, that is — and inhibiting progress on two fronts: progress on addressing the possibility that we are on the road to a catastrophic warming of the globe, and progress on reforming our anti-growth tax structure, which is so inequitable that it is straining the public's belief in the fairness of capitalism and what we like to call «the American Dream.»

The equitable recoupment doctrine «allows a litigant to avoid the bar of an expired statutory limitation period» and «prevents an inequitable windfall to a taxpayer or to the Government that would otherwise result from the inconsistent tax treatment of a single transaction, item, or event affecting the same taxpayer or a sufficiently related taxpayer.»

Public schools are financed largely through property taxes, which has created an inequitable distribution of resources within school districts and states, despite additional resources from states and the federal government.

A further concern in relation to a withholding tax is the inequitable nature of a flat tax on all payments.

«Even though the survey uncovered some improvement this year, with the exception of Montreal, we remain deeply concerned about the damaging impact that inequitable commercial - residential taxes have on city growth and its ability to attract business and jobs,» says Paul Morse, CEO of REALpac.