Sentences with phrase «more of the taxpayers»

Cuomo is just pissing away more of the taxpayers» money on another patronage appointment.

And the New York City public schools, rather than extracting and then wasting more of the taxpayers» money, may be forced to finally move beyond «lack of money» excuses and attempt to implement real, research - based reforms.

The Governor and the Legislature should be seeking answers to these questions before turning over any more of the taxpayers» money to these schools.

The school industry is huge, and Dell wants more of taxpayers money, but there is nothing in particular about these tablets that make then more fit for school or education than any other tablets.

These idjiots are just trying to get more of the taxpayers money.

Not exact matches

And put that way, it seems a bit more daunting from a taxpayer's point of view, especially when there's very little governments can or need to do to fix Canada's affordable housing crisis — other than get out of the way.

There's also the added phenomenon of the BBC, which runs a massive website filled with free news funded by British taxpayers, something that makes the daily news business even more competitive.

Thus today, Ontario taxpayers in the highest bracket pay more of their marginal earnings to the government than they keep themselves.

The Crown corporation is in desperate need of turning its financial performance around, or it risks causing even more problems for its balance sheet, the government and Canadian taxpayers.

Labour has said it will raise income taxes on people earning more than # 80,000 ($ 103,152) a year, promising no increases for the other 95 % of taxpayers.

Part of the problem, the study found, is that «existing tax rules effectively create a $ 19,399 reporting tax loophole impacting millions of taxpayers» because of the confusion surrounding the requirements for forms 1099 - K, which is supposed to be filed by companies when they earn more than $ 20,000 through 200 or more credit card transactions, and 1099 - MISC, which covers payments above $ 600 to independent contractors, freelancers and small businesses.

ICAA chief executive Stephen Harrison said the cost of defective administration should be borne by taxpayers and the decision - making process for defective administration claims should be more transparent.

A trillion - dollar tax cut, for example, leaves more cash in the accounts of taxpayers — the basic idea behind the Bush tax cuts.

Solyndra went bankrupt in 2011 owing more than $ 500 million to taxpayers from another Department of Energy loan program.

If you're one of the one million taxpayers who still have not filed their 2014 returns, you could be missing out on your portion of refunds totaling more than $ 1 billion.

«We're not going to increase the cost of internet service; we're not going to impose more taxes on Quebecers, on taxpayers,» he said during a visit to a Montreal community organization to promote this week's federal budget.

Beginning with the auto bailout, which the administration now claims cost taxpayers $ 9.3 billion but saved more than a million jobs, Obama doubled down on his commitment to manufacturing, setting a goal of doubling American exports between 2009 and 2014.

«As the President indicated in his June 1 announcement and subsequently, he is open to re-engaging in the Paris Agreement if the United States can identify terms that are more favorable to it, its businesses, its workers, its people, and its taxpayers,» the State Department said in its press release about the formal notice of withdrawal.

In this era of acute fiscal distress, it's unclear how much more taxpayer support will be available.

Noting that the actual rebate should have been at least 10 percentage points higher, Wyden and Pallone said, «Today's letter is more evidence that while Mylan irresponsibly raised the price of EpiPen, they were also bilking taxpayers out of millions of dollars.»

While not all of the costs are necessarily borne by taxpayers — i.e., your employer might pay a share of your health insurance premiums — many out - of - pocket expenses count toward the deduction (more on that below).

But the policy issue boils down to this: CCPC owners can defer paying taxes on far more income, passively invested by their small businesses, than the upper limit of about $ 26,000 a year in RRSP contributions allowed for salary - earning taxpayers.

Little can strike more fear in the heart of taxpayers than the prospect of the IRS questioning their tax return.

Because they aren't responsible for collecting the taxes for these payments, «a provincial government and its voters are incited to always demand more from the centre, shifting a large part of the costs to the taxpayers of other provinces,» argues Université du Québec economist Pierre Lemieux.

France's mostly taxpayer - funded public pension system may do better at ensuring every retiree is sufficiently funded (for now), and America's mostly private pension patchwork may be more sustainable into the future, but our hybrid system of individual -, employer - and government - funded benefits ranks high on both criteria, sufficiency and sustainability — «which is uncommon,» says Morin

«Since... 2011 we have created more than 512,000 private - sector jobs, implemented pro-business tax reform and saved millions of taxpayer dollars by maintaining Georgia's AAA bond rating.»

Admittedly, it takes a rather mundane $ 135,055 of individual annual income to make it into the top federal tax bracket in Canada, as opposed to more than US$ 400,000 in the U.S. Taxpayers who fall below that U.S. threshold are, generally speaking, better off south of the border.

Tom Price had cost taxpayers more than $ 1 million between his use of private planes for domestic travel and military jets for recent trips to Africa, Europe, and Asia, Politico reported.

His use of military jets for international travel, on which his wife, Betty, joined him, cost taxpayers more than $ 500,000, the outlet reported.

Separately, some Republican senators were questioning the repeal of a 40 percent inheritance tax levied on estates worth more than $ 5.5 million, or $ 11 million for married couples — a tax paid only by the wealthiest American taxpayers, or about 0.2 percent of Americans, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a research and policy institute.

Unfortunately, over the years, more and more middle income taxpayers have been subject to the AMT and have consequently owed additional taxes, because the AMT exemption — the amount of income which isn't subject to additional taxes — isn't indexed to inflation.

But as of December 31, 1991, the IRS no longer settles for 100 % of last year's bill in cases in which taxpayers earn adjusted gross incomes of at least $ 75,000, paid quarterly estimated taxes during any of the three previous years, and earn $ 40,000 more than they did last year.

Cockfield, in his report, wrote of the implications of this approach: «The gate would be left more open, and Canadian corporate taxpayers can pick and choose the most favourable tax haven.»

That year, members of Congress received more constituent letters about the 155 taxpayers than about the Vietnam War.

Since almost all wage income is subject to withholding already, these taxpayers could more easily be shifted into a return - free system than the rest of the filing population.

Sen. Jeff Brandes hopes his «basket» of proposals will usher in a new approach to criminal justice in Florida that increases accountability, uses taxpayer money more efficiently and keeps people out of prison

A federal agency that insured more than half of all loans for first - time homebuyers last year may soon look to taxpayers to shore up its dwindling finances.

Combined with other proposed tax law changes, many more taxpayers will be claiming the standard deduction in lieu of itemizing deductions.

Why does this group of taxpayers deserve a tax cut more than all other Canadian taxpayer?

The Conservative proposals take up a large part of the surplus but puts money in taxpayer's pockets, some more than others.

Only 223 estate taxpayers had estates with reported values of $ 50 million or more in 2014, according to the Washington Post.

True to form of 2006/07, program expenditures came in under budget, at $ 197.1 billion compared to $ 199.6 billion in the budget â $ «thereby preventing the Canadian Taxpayers Federation from issuing a press release decrying more than $ 200 billion in socialist waste.

Orange County was then the second most populated county in California, meaning that it is very likely that the vast majority of the 250 taxpayers who were delinquent to the State of California for more than $ 100,000 probably came from Orange County.

While the state of New York has invested more than $ 900 million of taxpayer funds to date into the project and its associated developments, SolarCity has spent just around $ 20 million in capital expenditures in Buffalo so far, according to multiple sources.

Phaseouts, however, not only claw back these benefits from the more affluent, they also increase the effective marginal tax rate these taxpayers face, decreasing the after - tax gains of earning more income.

Given that taxpayers have a lot more capital gains tax in 2017 than originally expected, Bitcoin holders are finding themselves in need to sell more of their portfolio in order to pay those taxes.

As a result, if all these provisions are enacted, more taxpayers would be claiming the standard deduction in lieu of itemizing deductions.

A taxpayer will also typically itemize tax deductions if it offers them more benefits than the standard deduction (i.e., when the total amount of qualified deductible expenses is greater than the standard deduction).

«That only 800 to 900 taxpayers reported gains related to bitcoin in each of the relevant years and that more than 14,000 Coinbase users have either bought, sold, sent or received at least $ 20,000 worth of bitcoin in a given year suggests that many Coinbase users may not be reporting their bitcoin gains,» wrote Judge Corley in the order.

Though only a small percentage of taxpayers have such high incomes, research suggests that high - income tax payers are more responsive to tax reforms that affect charitable giving because they have more income, more tax advisers, and more incentive to devote time to figuring out the after - tax price of giving.