Sentences with phrase «much tax dollars»

You can use the form to control how much tax dollars are removed from your paycheck.

Not exact matches

If you (a) forego 10 hamburgers to purchase an investment; (b) receive dividends which, after tax, buy two hamburgers; and (c) receive, upon sale of your holdings, after - tax proceeds that will buy eight hamburgers, then (d) you have had no real income from your investment, no matter how much it appreciated in dollars.

Apple (aapl) saves billions of dollars in taxes through subsidiaries in Ireland, where it declares much of its overseas profit.

Using a charitable lead trust (CLT) or a charitable remainder trust (CRT) could save you thousands (or millions) of dollars in taxes and provide much - needed funding to your desired charity.

If you travel for work much, just keep all your receipts, get serious about updating your tax spreadsheets, and don't let any dollar go unaccounted for.

Much of the middle - class and scores of businesses also have fled the city, taking their tax dollars with them.

On Sunday, The New York Times reported that Trump converted nearly a billion dollars in business losses — from failed ventures in casinos, real estate and a now defunct regional airline — to win a free pass with the IRS with the potential to shield as much as 18 years of his personal income from taxes.

But Apple and other Big Tech corporations like Google and Amazon — along with much of Big Pharma and even Starbucks — have avoided paying hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes on their worldwide earnings because they don't mainly sell physical things like cars or refrigerators or television sets that they make here and ship abroad.

With this much public money on the line, monitoring how US tax dollars are spent in the recovery will be crucial to prevent waste, fraud, and shoddy work.

Meanwhile, Yellen the Felon is bilking savers out of hundreds of billions of dollars a year in interest income, while they are being robbed through the stealth tax of inflation that is much higher than our Soviet - style CPI numbers indicate.

Operating margin measures how much profit a company makes on a dollar of sales, after paying for variable costs of production such as wages and raw materials, but before paying interest or tax.

How much you pay in federal income tax depends on a few different factors like your marital status, your salary, how many allowances you claim and if you have an additional dollar withholding.

After my son received his tax refund check — which much to my chagrin was a few hundred dollars more than it should have been because he filed as independent — he went straight to American Eagle to pick up a few sweatshirts.

Bill, it's not so much that anyone would be «forced» to go to the concert, it's tax dollars being spent in support of one religion's recruitment drive.

I guess I feel the same way about a liberal agenda that say that to get out of debt we have to spend more, or that my tax dollars have to pay for something I think is morally wrong (Obamacare sets up a fund to pay for late term abortions) or a government that confiscates kids lunches, or tells me how much soda I can drink, or uses my tax money to choose winners and losers (mostly losers but Obma doners) in energy production that produces no energy yet we are sitting on more coal and oil than any other nation on the planet.

And Bible Clown... don't worry your tax dollars are being spent on much more foolish things than a cross made from the WC building as part of a memorial.

1) Charities spend their income on necessities, such as food and utilities, which ever - so - slightly re-orients our economy toward recession - resistant products, rather than luxuries 2) Charities spend their money quickly, but on independent schedules, making for a smoother stimulus effect on the economy 3) Charities make purchases tax - free, meaning that $ 1 spent by a charity generates a full $ 1 of private economic activity; furthermore, much of those tax revenues are recovered as income tax on the grocery stores, utility companies, etc. that might not have received that income otherwise 4) Charitable giving is by far the most democratic way to improve society; from birth control to bombers, government assuredly spends money on something you don't like, and charitable giving restores your say - so 5) Charitable donations are tax deductible, meaning you keep those tax dollars in your local community 6) Charitable donations provide the funds necessary for volunteers to serve the needy, thus giving «the average citizen» a chance to meet and interact with the needy, breaking down stereotypes

Few people know or care how much of their taxes go to something a huge a roads and highways... so why is it so bad to use some tax dollars in support of Matthew 25?

The fed tax dollars, if or however much goes to hospitals run by Catholics benefits everyone that attends that hospital.

It is cruel to allocate health - care resources in such a way that the young and those in mid-life, who still have so much to live for and so much to contribute, must through their tax dollars be forced to pay for sophisticated equipment to prolong lives which long for nothing so much as to return to their Giver.

I don't think very much of anyone's tax dollars are going to healing the sick.

I agree it is Wholefoods disciples pushing for excessively expensive school foods be served to all students (much of which they only toss in the garbage) to be paid for with increasing tax dollars from middle and lower class taxpayers.

'' The next two years will provide no shortage of challenges for our Conference, its partners in government and all New Yorkers: A multi-billion dollar budget deficit needing closure, a government that is still too big and spends too much, chronic unemployment, some of the nation's highest taxes and a continued lack of public confidence in state government,» Kolb said.

They went in for what four or five minutes and did nothing do you know how much money was spent on that «Session» it was a waste of tax dollars but the Democ» RATS» don; t care they love to waste tax dollars.

«Lazio may want to hide what he made as a Wall Street lobbyist from the public, but his Wall Street bosses used our tax dollars to pay Lazio and have an obligation to disclose how much he made in their service,» King said in a press release.

If the success of a representative democracy hinges on the informed consent of the governed, it is critical that the public know as much as possible about the information used and the processes by which its representatives spend tax dollars and act on policy recommendations.

Nobody has put a dollar figure on how much corruption costs New York tax - payers in higher taxes and bad public services.

The tax brings in so much money every year that millions of dollars collected by way of the tax were used as a virtual slush fund by the leaders of the Assembly and State Senate.

The goal is always to try and return as much of your tax dollars to you as possible.

«I want our tax dollars to stay here and we've got so much business opportunity between rentals and employment and, yeah, money,» Seamen said.

It is clear that these fat cats who want the public to bail them out like AIG and Goldman Sachs; or the Speyer deal with Stuyvesant Town and a whole host of other scams, are organizing because they fear losing their «special treatment» like a West Street Headquarters will a half billion dollar real estate tax exemption; or the tax credits for complex real estate deals that made Related into a financial and real estate behemoth without really doing much to improve anything... It bothers these dukes and barons that the city helps the needy.

«In addition, the fact that New Yorkers are spending billions of dollars at out of state casinos, when that money could be staying here to generate much needed tax revenue was also a big reason that this resolution came forward.»

«When you have government mandated expenses like property taxes and water and sewer rates that have gone through the ceiling in the last 10 years, that now eat up anywhere from 30 — 40 - percent of every rent dollar an owner takes in, then it doesn't leave much left to pay off your mortgage, to make repairs, to invest in the capital improvement in your building.

Cuomo says if the Bills need a new stadium he would like as much private investment to go into the facility as possible before tax dollars are committed.

And strong schools to provide well educated workers are much more important to the success of New York State businesses than the dollars they will receive from these ill - conceived tax giveaways.

The state legislative budget committee Friday assumed more oversight of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. following its failure to spur as much job creation as promised in return for millions of dollars in potential tax credits to businesses.

The tax, much reviled on Long Island, has been subsidizing the regional transit network by taking 34 cents for every $ 100 dollars businesses and governments pay in salaries.

Absent a tax increase, there isn't much maneuvering room within this figure — because, in fact, there aren't any multi-billion dollar «surpluses» in store.

Also, Western New York Republican Ray Walter tweeted that no tax dollars should be directed to del Lago or any other «Cuomo Casino no matter how much they've paid off Cuomo and the Legislative Leaders.»

REBNY has traditionally focused its lobbying efforts — and dollars — on candidates for state office rather than in New York City, for two main reasons, Lerner said: First, the city's relatively stringent campaign finance laws have historically made it harder for special interest groups to gain as much influence here; and second, although many key issues — such as 421a tax abatements — affect only New York City, they are decided at the state level.

How much of the tax dollars pay this small army.

He has no opinion whether or not tax dollars are used to promote candidates for Presidential election, on having the Government regulate the internet (much like it regulates the mail and the VA), or most importantly if the Government ever stops spending more money than it earns (increasing the path to insolvency for the nation).

Much of the debate has turned on whether or not school - choice programs yield improved educational outcomes and what happens to students who are left behind in schools struggling to cope after tax dollars have been diverted elsewhere.

Florida's 650 charter schools could see as much as an extra $ 96.3 million coming their way in 2017 - 18, thanks to a controversial provision in a sweeping education bill Gov. Rick Scott signed into law that forces school districts to hand over some of their local tax dollars.

Conventional wisdom says that Obama put one over on the GOP — getting them to accept higher taxes on the top 2 percent without so much as giving up a dollar for education or any other government spending program.

Committee member and board vice president Judy Conlin said she favors a Wisconsin Association of School Board proposal that would require property tax bills to include how much of their local dollars are going to voucher schools.

While the AFT's L.A. local and its traditionalist allies in were none too fond of this funding, and did as much as they could to characterize the dollars as being akin to carpet - bagging, the likely presence of dollars from the national AFT and its statewide affiliate (as well as the fact that traditionalists have long benefited from national alliances, including the NEA's move last year to pour $ 5 million into successful campaigns to pass Prop. 30 and its $ 50 billion in tax increases as well as defeat Prop. 32) meant that they couldn't play up the outside money angle as effectively as they desired.

This voucher program diverts much needed tax dollars from our the state's constitutionally - guaranteed public schools and we feel that is a disservice to our more than one million students enrolled in our public schools.

North Carolina is one of just seven states in the country that uses a «resource allocation» method of determining funding, which uses several different formulas for determining how much money school districts receive in state tax dollars.

Of course, the problem is even where teachers have agreed to a wage freeze you have increasing costs — without additional state aid — those extra dollars will have to come from the local property tax which is much more unfair for the middle class than raising money through the income tax (assuming you don't let the millionaires off the hook like the Governor did).