Sentences with phrase «n't as taxpayer»

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Exactly how much taxpayers would save — or how much more they would pay — depends on many factors, and as Business Insider's Josh Barro pointed out, tax cuts for middle - class Americans aren't likely to be as sweeping as Republicans make it sound.

For instance, Smith said, some taxpayers don't realize that an elderly person in their care could qualify as a dependent if they meet certain conditions imposed by the IRS.

If there isn't a good business case, then offering them would be just as much an affront to shareholders as it would be to taxpayers.

It in no way helps to promote business as a whole, and only exists because most regular Canadian taxpayers are not aware that it's going on.

For instance, Smith said, some taxpayers don't realize that an elderly person in their care could qualify as a dependent if they meet certain conditions imposed by the Internal Revenue Service.

Today, as global markets nervously watch to see how much it will cost to save European banks from their willingness to make risky loans, critics around the world are calling for Hammurabi - style reforms to make sure financial institutions, not taxpayers, pay for future bad bets.

In contrast to part - time landlords, taxpayers who qualify as real estate professionals don't need to treat rental losses as passive.

She added: «Sensitivities around negotiations with the EU must not be used as an excuse to keep taxpayers and Parliament in the dark.

Exactly how much taxpayers will save if Republicans succeed in overhauling the US tax code will depend on many factors, but tax cuts for average Americans aren't likely to be as sweeping as Republicans make it sound.

As secretary, Price criticized the Medicaid health program for low - income people, saying it doesn't deliver results commensurate with the hundreds of billions of dollars taxpayers spend on it.

If, on the other hand, you're one of the tens of millions of able - bodied Americans who have benefitted from record welfare spending that's not nearly as means - tested or fraud - free as it should have been, it's time to take your hand out of the taxpayers» pockets and get to work.

If Congress had not enacted the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, 10 million taxpayers would owe the AMT in 2007, according to estimates by the Urban Institute - Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center; reducing the number of affected taxpayers to several million, as the House - passed AMT «patch» bill would do, would have cost less than $ 15 billion.

Such an arrangement, known as private - sector involvement, or P.S.I., has been pushed by Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany as a way of forcing banks, not only European taxpayers, to foot the bill for bailing out Greece.

We're seeing a lot of proposals in Congress that aren't accompanied by a lot of thought or analysis of what impact a deep cut in travel budgets could have,» such as a reduction in services for taxpayers and for veterans, and fewer job - related conferences.

Most of these deals go through a privatized economic development agency called JobsOhio, which doesn't require as much transparency as a public agency about what taxpayers are getting for their money.

Similarly, OMB and JCT do not count personal and dependent exemptions as tax expenditures on the theory that adjusting for family size is appropriate in measuring a taxpayer's ability to pay.

Phaseouts that are not adjusted for inflation affect more taxpayers over time, as inflation raises nominal incomes and thus lifts more taxpayers above the phaseout thresholds.

There is only one taxpayer and it is extremely important that Parliamentarians and Canadians fully comprehend the implications of federal actions, not only on federal finances, but on the provincial finances as well.

At the hearing, Senator Elizabeth Warren pressed Carson over the fact that, as the head of the department, he would be in charge of numerous programs that the president could manipulate to profit his real estate empire, asking Carson, «Can you assure me that not a single taxpayer dollar that you give out will financially benefit the president - elect or his family?»

It was clear even before Kraft Heinz came right out and said as much Tuesday that liberal Madison Mayor Paul Soglin and conservative Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and their respective backers had little reason to bash each other for not doing enough to keep Oscar Mayer's Madison plant open with taxpayer - backed financial assistance.

Bryan Riley, director of the Free Trade Initiative at the National Taxpayers Union, said that an increase in the trade deficit from the prior year «should not be viewed as a problem to be fixed, but as a predictable result of a growing economy that enables people to afford more imports.»

However, if the ordinary shares or ADSs are treated as traded on an «established securities market» and you are either a cash basis taxpayer or an accrual basis taxpayer that has made a special election (which must be applied consistently from year to year and can not be changed without the consent of the IRS), you will determine the U.S. dollar value of the amount realized in a non U.S. dollar currency by translating the amount received at the spot rate of exchange on the settlement date of the sale.

McCarthy put it another way — that the low - tax states are subsidizing the high - tax states because the taxpayers in those states can't deduct as much from their taxes.

Also, as an autonomous organization, the NFA does not use taxpayer money and is self - funded, generated through membership fees and fines.

But given that the tax bill severely curtails the state and local deduction for most if not all individuals, many more taxpayers could take advantage of state - level initiatives that essentially reclassify state and local tax payments as federal charitable contributions.

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

Why couldn't the Fed and Treasury do for Lehman what they did with other Wall Street investment firms and stock brokers: let it reclassify itself as a bank so it could pawn off its junk mortgages at the Fed's discount window for 100 cents on the dollar, sticking taxpayers with the loss?

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.»

aren't free, the meals required to feed the soldiers aren't free... I could keep going on about what we as taxpayers DO have to pay for.

At the same time, many low - and middle - income taxpayers simply do not participate in the regular and automatic saving vehicles through which much wealth accumulation occurs, such as paying off a mortgage and making regular deposits to retirement accounts.

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.

The Missouri Legislature funds life sciences, but carefully restricts its scope so as to not put taxpayer money into areas that would also require cloning or ESC research to be funded.

As the economy continues to hit taxpayers, those considered «poor» will continue to have opportunities that taxpayers can not provide for their own children.

According to Piketty and Saez, in 1970 the top 0.01 percent of taxpayers had 0.7 percent of total income - that is, they earned «only» 70 times as much as the average, not enough to buy or maintain a mega-residence.

And this was not some taxpayer - funded study as Ricky seems to think.

There are lots of myths... flying saucers, Santa, etc.... but people that believe in those, don't preach hatred and intolerance of others... as well as trying to deprive them of equal rights that other taxpayers in this country (and elsewhere) have access to.

The earlier rationale for tax exemption was that nonprofit organizations are simply not part of the tax base to begin with because their members already pay their own share of the costs of government as taxpayers in their own right.

If they are going to give taxpayer money to faith groups, then those groups should not be allowed to discriminate against any taxpayer as far as employment or services.

Professional gamblers, at least in Las Vegas, are not as reluctant to talk about their winnings as they were a few years ago when IRS agents were known to rush up to a poker or baccarat table and grab chips away from a delinquent taxpayer.

The Sonics left town in 2008 because taxpayers didn't want to pay for renovations to the Key Arena that would have brought it up to par, and the league has said that, as is, it's unsuitable as a long - term home for a club.

Because as an outsider, I had this image of Jeffrey Loria as some sort of disinterested plutocrat, content to collect taxpayer money for his new park and revenue - sharing money — not unlike the way a laundromat owner would be content to show up every week and empty the quarters out of the machines.

I can't comment on the fallout from hosting the Olympics in London, but as a taxpayer I don't believe the supposed benefits of hosting the Sydney Olympics ever in any way matched the costs.

I'm not sure a poll of federal taxpayers and parents would find the time and effort spent by these employees on the journal article — which I personally viewed purely as a form of reputational damage control — to be a worthy use of these funds when other aspects of our meal program are in clear need of improvement.

«I couldn't be happier that the city is choosing to stand up for its property rights,» Spitz said, «and I'm speaking as a taxpayer.»

And in that context, why shouldn't the federal government make those meals as healthful as practicable, especially since the consequences of poor childhood nutrition — obesity, obesity - related diseases, health care costs, lack of military readiness — are all borne in part by taxpayers?

Bruce Lyon, who lives nearby on Elmwood Avenue, said that if a developer doesn't pay as much for the property as the referendum proposal cost taxpayers, residents will have to subsidize the project.

«As chief global economist of Bear Stearns for 15 years, David Malpass not only helped cause the financial collapse, he made millions and forced taxpayers to bail him out,» said Gillibrand campaign spokesman Glen Caplin.

Over the past week, things have gone downhill quickly for both Lopez, who announced he won't be seeking re-election as Brooklyn Democratic chairman, but has refused to heed calls to resign his Assembly seat; and Silver, who was revealed to have negotiated a secret settlement of $ 103,000 worth of taxpayer cash with two women whose harassment claims against Lopez pre-dated those sent to the ethics committee.

Losing a case of this kind in the courts should not be seen as tax avoidance by the taxpayer or as enabling avoidance by their advisers.»

You're just, the government is not getting as much of their money as they put in but I don't see it as taxpayer money at all,» he said.