Sentences with phrase «interest as a taxpayer»

It is in your best interest as a taxpayer to use it.

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The system could be expanded to include taxpayers with income from dividends, interest, pensions, individual retirement account distributions, and unemployment insurance benefits, as well as low - income earners qualifying for the earned income tax credit (EITC).

As Paulson, Geithner and the Federal Reserve chairman, Ben Bernanke, raced to bail out banks and companies like A.I.G., Bair resisted, fearing that they were being overly generous by putting the interests of bondholders over those of taxpayers.

In addition, cities, states, and taxpayers have concerns about the costs of bonds and borrowing, how to get the best return on banked or invested public money, and an interest in finding innovative ways to fund public spending without surrendering public control, as is often the case with public - private partnerships.

As the JCT states, it reflects the «dollar benefit to taxpayers from being able to claim the mortgage interest deduction on a tax return.»

As it is, the payment of interest on reserves constitutes a fiscal transfer from taxpayers to commercial banks.

In the past, taxpayers weren't required to pay Medicare tax on income generated from investments such as capital gains, dividends, and taxable interest.

As a striking example, and noting the total B.C. Budget is approximately $ 50 billion per year, servicing B.C.'s debt using Ontario's credit rating (and resulting higher interest rates) would cost B.C.'s taxpayers an extra $ 2.3 billion every year.

As noted in the tax regulatory agency's March press release: «Taxpayers who do not properly report the income tax consequences of virtual currency transactions can be audited for those transactions and, when appropriate, can be liable for penalties and interest.»

It treats as short - term capital gain taxed at ordinary income rates the amount of a taxpayer's net long - term capital gain with respect to an applicable partnership interest if the partnership interest has been held for less than three years.

Thus, the itemized deductions that have survived the chopping block, such as those for charitable and mortgage interest, won't provide any tax benefit to millions of taxpayers.

One has to wonder what «unnecessary divorce» means — and who gets to determine what's «unnecessary» and what's «necessary,» just as one would have to wonder whose interest are we truly caring about, kids» or taxpayers»?

The county sponsors of the three hospitals included in this amendment, as well as their taxpayers, have a direct interest in financial condition of these institutions and, therefore, the stable pension option is a viable approach to meeting local fiscal demands.

«I firmly believe that continued hiring as our city is facing this budget shortfall, before we even have a budget plan for the coming fiscal year, is not in the best interests of the City and our taxpayers.

The State Assembly has passed legislation that would strip taxpayer - funded pensions from public officers convicted of corruption, as well as a resolution aimed at preventing conflicts of interest with regard to legislators» outside income.

As your next yown supervisor, I will not approve financial agreements that are not in the best interests of taxpayers.

The latest, a report in USA Today that he spent more than $ 200,000 in taxpayer money chartering flights as a senator, helps Republicans argue that he is more interested using his office to help himself rather than the public.

De Blasio and Murphy vowed to work together to rally against the GOP's massive federal tax overhaul that calls for the elimination of popular tax deductions — such as state and local property tax costs and student loan interest payments — which they argue will hurt middle - class taxpayers.

These letters to taxpayers reminding them of their obligations are sometimes not copied to agents, such as one that was sent out just before Christmas to those who had declared interest income on their 2014 - 5 tax return asking them to check the figures returned.

«It seems a bit of a PR disaster if you didn't have the nous to realise in the same week that taxpayers were filing their tax returns, and sweating over a little bit of bank interest and getting it in on time, and you announce this as a good deal.»

«Taxpayers prevailed today as yet another meritless special interest lawsuit that sought to undo the progress made under Governor Cuomo failed in the courts,» said Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi.

As a taxpayer, however, I resent paying through the nose to attempt to educate kids — who definitely aren't MY kids — who have no interest in learning, never will and merely prevent other kids from learning.

Kennedy, as did his opponent in 2014, signed a contract promising to limit campaign spending to a grant of about $ 95,000 in taxpayer money he received under the Citizen Election Program (CEP), the landmark Connecticut campaign finance reform that its supporters claim is a model for keeping special interest money out of elections.

«My first and only aim as the Secretary of State for International Development is to put the interests of British taxpayers and the world's poor at the front of our development work.»

She did praise state Committee Chairman Ed Cox as the «most effective voice for the only special interest group that matters and that's the taxpayer.»

«As the County Clerk elected by the taxpayers of Erie County to look out for their best interests, I can not in good conscious follow through on a policy that will violate federal laws by knowingly providing government identification to illegal immigrants,» he said.

The level of deficit and debt that we have been left as a country costs the British taxpayer # 120 million every single day: «To put that in the context of a 1p a litre rise in fuel duty, which is worth # 500 million, the British taxpayer will pay as much in debt interest over the course of four or five days as they will pay in fuel duty, if fuel duty is subject to a 1p a litre rise.

The County Highway Department worked with the Town of West Seneca to borrow equipment that allowed Erie County to keep costs down, which Legislator Lorigo pointed to as an outstanding example of municipalities working together in the best interest of taxpayers.

«As I stated when I first submitted this proposal, taxpayers who fund employee salaries deserve a workforce that has a personal interest in the success of this county.

Critics of the idea of a new convention often point to the expected cost to taxpayers — Benjamin said the cost of the»67 convention, if adjusted for inflation, would be $ 47 million in 2015 dollars — as well as the possibility that the cast of elected delegates would be dominated by the same politicians and special interests that dominate the Capitol during the course of regular business.

As a result, taxpayers will spend more than $ 406,000 in interest costs that were completely unnecessary.

Now critics are saying that the Democrats» pro-Malloy mailings will undo the original promise of the public financing system — because the special - interest money will flow into the state campaign through the party's «federal account» even as taxpayers continue to pay for campaigns that were supposed to be kept «clean» of contractors» money.

We have a lot of work ahead of us and getting started as soon as possible is in the best interest of taxpayers,» said Majority Leader Joseph Lorigo.

The other Republicans and I opposed this proposal, as we felt that adding another $ 7 million in debt to the $ 3 million to which we had already agreed for the zoo's polar bear exhibit was not in the best interests of county taxpayers.

«And as long as we have useful tools who purport to be Republicans, like Dean Skelos, Bob Turner, and a swath of other who are not willing to stand up for principles, but who would rather knuckle under to the most extreme demands of far - left Democrats, Public Service Unions and well - funded special interests in exchange for job security, and who could not lead a one - car funeral on an abandoned stretch of the Thruway, idiots like me — Andrew Cuomo — will continue to roll over the legislature, the taxpayers, the bondholders, and the rest of New York's victims with nary so much as an objection.»

I do agree, that holding any lease payments in escrow until the tax lien is satisfied, as ordered by the Executive, is in the best interest of the county's taxpayers and will hopefully encourage the property owners to act quickly to pay their back taxes.

«Taxpayers prevailed today as yet another meritless special interest lawsuit that sought to undo the progress made under Gov. Cuomo failed in the courts,» Rich Azzopardi said.

«And I think it will be self - evident that anybody who's interested in really trying to help solve the energy problem will see continuing this hub as a good investment by the taxpayers,» he said.

It has become a way of glossing over irresolvable conflict between groups with some interests in common, such as taxpayers (who want to save money), scientists (who want to spend it on exciting projects) and people with disabilities (who hope public funds will improve the quality of their life).

There's the ongoing special - counsel investigation into whether the Trump campaign aided a Russian campaign to aid Trump's candidacy and defeat his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton; there's the associated inquiry into whether the president obstructed justice when he fired former FBI Director James Comey, whom he had asked not to investigate his former national - security adviser; there are the president's hush - money payments to women with whom he allegedly had extramarital affairs, made through his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and facilitated by corporate cash paid to influence the White House; there is his ongoing effort to interfere with the Russia inquiry and politicize federal law enforcement; there are the foreign governments that seem to be utilizing the president's properties as vehicles for influencing administration policy; there's the emerging evidence that Trump campaign officials sought aid not only from Russia, but from other foreign countries, which may have affected Trump's foreign policy; there are the ongoing revelations of the president's Cabinet officials» misusing taxpayer funds; there is the accumulating evidence that administration decisions are made at the behest of private industry, in particular those in which Republican donors have significant interests.

If the state is successful in its current court appeal and the ESA program moves forward, I would love to see the kind of robust Yelp - like parent evaluations Ladner envisions — so long as they're paired with strong oversight representing the public interest of all the taxpayers whose kids aren't attending ESA - financed schools.

As long as we believe that most program participants have interests that are aligned with those of the taxpayer, let's design school choice programs like we design most government programs — without performance accountability requirementAs long as we believe that most program participants have interests that are aligned with those of the taxpayer, let's design school choice programs like we design most government programs — without performance accountability requirementas we believe that most program participants have interests that are aligned with those of the taxpayer, let's design school choice programs like we design most government programs — without performance accountability requirements.

As the organizational sponsor of Doe v. Antioch, Students Matter is uniting students, parents, teachers, and concerned California taxpayers with an interest in ensuring accountability in our public schools.

Thankfully, people are waking up and realizing that the teachers unions have a very specific agenda that doesn't have the interests of parents, children or taxpayers at heart and, as such, won't be buying Weingarten's faux «solutions.»

In Brian Bissell, a K12 shareholder and head of the Colorado Virtual Academy (COVA) board, explained why the school chose to fire K12 as the school operator: «It became clear that at certain points in COVA history the interests of COVA — that is our students and their families, their teachers and Colorado's taxpayers — these have not always been aligned with K12's interests.»

Perhaps, a proposal to join other states in withdrawing from agreements with the SBAC and PARCC test monopolies would better serve the interests of Connecticut's students and taxpayers as we get our assessment act together.

The crisis was the subject of heated parliamentary debate last week, with Teresa May's government struggling on multiple fronts to defend the idea of public services contracting, launch a convincing investigation of what happened, take credible steps to deal with what is widely seen as compensation - gouging by the company's directors, the perception of sweetheart contracts extended to a struggling company, continuing doubtsabout official and company conflicts of interest, and about the impact of still - undetermined huge taxpayer losses — not least over underfunded pensions that have now come onto its books.

Some see the refusal to participate in SBAC testing as an act of courage and conviction; they see it as willful push - back against flawed education reform policies that since the passage of NCLB have failed to improve education in America's public schools and yet continue to be promoted by special interests who seek to profit at student, parent, and taxpayer expense.

They often are not subject to accountability and transparency provisions, such as open governing board meetings and records, financial conflict of interest, and financial audit requirements, that apply to other taxpayer - funded schools.

The take - away then is not to hide test scores from the public, but for parents and taxpayers to become as interested and knowledgeable about education as they are about baseball and demand more from the educational establishment.