The AMT hasn't been adequately adjusted to catch up with inflation for years because the government knows this is a great way to generate
more tax revenue from the middle class.
Not exact matches
Though Canada's provincial
revenue volatility troubles have much
more to do with resource royalties than personal income
taxes, Alberta and Newfoundland could perhaps learn a thing or two
from the trials and tribulations south of the border — and how the smartest states are trying to fix the problem.
Barros explained there was no development slated for that land otherwise, and thus, Boston would reap much
more in property
tax revenue from the land with GE there than without it.
Republicans argue that the new economic growth
from the bill will in turn generate
more revenue, since larger incomes mean
more taxes to collect.
The above - referenced editorial also points out that 48 % of state and local
revenues collected in N.J. come
from property
taxes, which is off - the - charts high: «No other state derives
more than 41 percent of its
revenue from that source; the U.S. average is 33.1 percent.»
Implemented last year, the measure had increased the
tax for on - island companies with
more than $ 2.75 billion in
revenues that buy goods
from off - island «related parties» to 6.5 percent
from 2 percent...
Lost
revenues from tax cuts, twinned with greater government spending, mean
more borrowing to fund deficits.
Budgetary
revenues as a share of GDP are projected to decline
from 14.8 per cent in 2015 - 16 to 14.4 per cent in 2025 - 26, as higher personal income
taxes, resulting
from the progressivity of the
tax system, are
more than offset by stability or declines in the other
taxes.
More than half of
revenue from the
tax goes to schools.
Financial Aid: In 2017, for the first time ever, America's public universities received
more revenue from tuition than they did
from tax dollars — a funding model that places a higher burden on students and their families and risks widening economic inequality, even as the population of would - be students becomes
more diverse.
Unless this
tax favoritism is reversed,
more and
more revenue will be diverted away
from spending on consumption and investment to pay debt service and «financialize» the economy even
more.
And that extra $ 300bn in
tax revenue comes
from a precarious assumption: that lower
taxes will encourage businesses to buy
more machines, making workers
more productive.
Additional stabilization
from unemployment insurance, although smaller in total magnitude than that
from the
tax system, is estimated to be eight times as effective per dollar of lost
revenue because
more of the money is spent rather than saved.
That suggests that weak domestic demand is becoming an increasingly significant source of disinflationary pressure, adding to the impact
from falling world energy prices and the end of a period of administered price rises as governments sought to repair their finances by increasing
revenue from sales
taxes and charging
more for services such as health care.
These may have lessened the fall in Canadaâ $ ™ s corporate
tax revenue losses, but not by much. Even worse, this
tax shifting makes the overall net impact even
more negative as any
revenue gains
from income shifting come at the expense of even greater
revenue losses elsewhereâ $» and fuel a race to the bottom with
tax cuts.
It's that time of year again when
tax collectors at the Canada
Revenue Agency, at the behest of their political masters, siphon
more from the pay stubs of Canadians while giving corporations a New Year's bonus.
In «Ontario's
Tax on the Rich: Grasping at Straw Men,» Associate Director of Research Alexandre Laurin finds taxpayers» behavioural responses will reduce revenue over the long run by more than the province can expect to collect from the tax hi
Tax on the Rich: Grasping at Straw Men,» Associate Director of Research Alexandre Laurin finds taxpayers» behavioural responses will reduce
revenue over the long run by
more than the province can expect to collect
from the
tax hi
tax hike.
Closing that gap further with
taxes on high earners would eventually require
more than doubling the payroll
tax rate for high earners (assuming no additional money
from investment income, as capital gains would already be past their
revenue - maximizing limit), bringing the total
tax hike to about 25 percent for those earners.
Similarly, they fantasize about taking in
more revenue from the rich by increasing the
tax rates on wealth.
It will clear up our courts and our jails, it will allow police to focus on real crime, it will allow it to be used for medicinal reasons, it will reduce crime, it will stop money
from being wasted on the drug war, and it will bring in
more tax revenue.
Although the Park Boulevard properties would add a slew of commercial and institutional buildings to Glen Ellyn, a normally large
revenue source
from annexation -
more than $ 100 annually in rebated state
taxes for each additional resident - would not be significant, because fewer than 10 homes would join the village.
Raising
more revenue from the rich is popular, significant cuts in service are unpopular, and the payroll
tax is very unpopular.
Now, governors and state legislators are considering how to adjust their own
tax codes to shield residents
from paying
more or, in some cases, whether to apply any of the unexpected
revenue windfall to other priorities instead.
I can not be alone in thinking that it would be
more beneficial for the government to be spending their scarce pennies on recovering lost VAT and creating an education programme to make it easier for individuals - and businesses - to fill in their
tax forms correctly, when a massive two - thirds (65.9 %) of the lost
revenue comes
from these areas.
«Whether we have
more revenue or not, my Senate colleagues and I are not going to support additional
taxes in the state of New York,» said Sen. James Tedisco, a Republican
from the Albany area.
Far less attention was given to the extension of the Health Care Reform Act of 1996 (HCRA), which authorizes two
taxes that yield
more than $ 4.3 billion annually and a mix of other
revenues from health care related sources.
Klein's legislation calls for a
more specific, one - time charge that would come in the form of monthly payments of $ 35.6 million
from local sales
tax revenue over the course of 12 months in order to meet $ 428 million, or just over half of the plan.
«Although school districts
more reliant on state aid derive a greater benefit
from the current environment of low levy growth and increased state
revenues, property
taxes have traditionally been a
more stable source of
revenue than state aid.
Apart
from the nuclear issue, the exploitation of Scotland's fossil - fuel resources is a major industrial activity, and even
more a source of
tax revenue, while there is outstanding potential for renewable energy generation, especially wind, wave and tidal.
Never mind that de Blasio insisted multiple times that he has no plans to draw
more revenue from the
tax by increasing the rate and that his proposed budget itself increases spending by less than 1 percent.
Rates for particular kinds of state and local
taxes vary much
more than state and local spending
from tax revenues per capita.
Cuomo, who is under fire
from progressive groups to keep a
tax on those who make $ 250,000 or a
more a year that's set to expire, said
tax revenue collection has lower than expected during this fiscal year.
A meat
tax would bring
more fairness to the
tax system, and the
revenue gained could go towards funding educational programmes about the health and environmental benefits of abstaining
from meat, eggs and dairy products.
Despite his six - figure income funded by taxpayer dollars, Terry has since 2000 amassed nearly $ 1.2 million in federal liens
from the Internal
Revenue Service and
more than $ 205,000 in state
tax warrants.
«Lower the
tax rates, make government
more efficient, get the businesses back here, get the private sector booming and then you will be able to fill the coffers when you're collecting road
tax from more tractor trailers on the road,
more gas
tax from more people commuting to work,
more sales
tax revenue.»
The Dream Act would allow immigrants in New York to contribute
more fully to the state economy, boosting longterm state's $ 1.5 trillion GDP by at least $ 1.8 billion a year, and increasing state and local
tax revenues in New York by $ 62 million, according to a report released today by the Fiscal Policy Institute that draws on analyses
from the Center for American Progress and... (read
more)
Government watchdogs expressed concern that the budget added
more than $ 700 million in new agency spending since January despite reduced
tax -
revenue projections
from real - estate transactions and personal income
taxes.
Silver agreed with Strong Economy for All Coaliton head Mike Kink's assessment that up to 85 percent of the
revenue currently being generated by the so - called millionaire's
tax (set to sunset at the end of this year) is actually coming
from people with assets of $ 1 million or
more.
They also worried about the loss of jobs and
tax revenue from Indian Point, which for
more than 50 years has operated in Buchanan, Westchester County.
Many of the same warnings Mario Cuomo heard in the 1980s about Shoreham are the same ones his son hears today
from supporters of Indian Point: Closing a nuclear plant will result in blackouts, a less reliable electric grid and increased air pollution as fossil fuels are burned to replace the lost emissions - free nuclear power; customers could face higher bills;
more than 1,000 jobs will be lost, and
tax revenue for schools and towns will dissipate.
His budget closed a projected $ 4.6 billion deficit with $ 1.8 billion of spending cuts, $ 1.5 billion in additional
revenue from increased
taxes and fees and $ 1.3 billion of one time transfers, and did not tap into the state's $ 1.2 billion of reserves or increase the top income
tax rate on those earning $ 1 million or
more.
He said MMA would have a positive economic impact in the state — a study commissioned by the UFC predicted it would generate $ 137 million in economic activity around the state
from training by 2019, and could bring in
more than $ 5 million in
tax revenue — and has always been talked about in the context of the state budget.
From that additional spending, the county would receive $ 500,000 or
more in new sales
tax revenue.
Connecticut's rising income disparity is causing the state's
revenue from taxes to grow
more slowly and to become
more volatile.
More recently, How cutting corporation
tax would boost
revenue uses new regression analysis and examples to make the case that the dynamic rewards
from cutting corporate
tax are now sufficient to increase
revenue and Gordon Brown's Economic Failure provided the most comprehensive case yet that Brown's record as chancellor was a poor one.
But that won't keep the towns
from lobbying for
more sales -
tax revenue, of course.
Aside
from the county's decision to use reserves
from the sewer stabilization fund, an attempt to bring back about $ 120,000
more in
revenue to the East End, generated through the county's hotel / motel
tax, stalled in the Legislature's economic development and energy committee.
Our transit agencies must be
more entrepreneurial in how they deploy their assets, whether it is air rights, advertising, retail rentals or working with municipal and county governments to negotiate a share of the increased
tax revenues that result
from new transit projects.
Though
more money, $ 3.3 billion, came into the state coffers in August compared to this time last year, the state is relying on one - time
revenues from tax settlements to shore up its budget.
Year - over-year
tax collections
from the personal income
tax and sales
tax in 46 states have grown by
more than 10 percent
from April through June, but
revenue on the local level remains stagnate compared to last year, The Rockefeller Institute for Public Policy found.