Sentences with phrase «of fee hikes»

Doerries called on the new government to back access to justice for small businesses by reviewing the impact of the fee hike.

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A free market guy wouldn't advocate government - legislated cellphone costs, knowing full well that carriers deprived of roaming fees will hike other charges to compensate.

Record companies, on the other hand, want to hike Spotify's fees to as much as 58 % of revenue, though Spotify could gain some leverage by offering labels the opportunity to make some music available only to the streaming service's 30 million paid subscribers.

Costco Wholesale's quarterly profit scraped past estimates, helped by a hike in membership fees, but a fall in gross margins fueled concerns of an intensifying grocer price war, sending shares down 3.6 percent in after - market trading.

According to Bloomberg, one of the ways in which Uber is attempting to mitigate its considerable deficit is by hiking booking fees in the U.S. and Canada.

Last fall thousands of small merchants protested online and outside Alibaba's headquarters in Ma's hometown, the eastern city of Hangzhou, against a hike in Taobao's listing fees.

May 2 The poorest U.S. consumers would lose most from the proposed tie - up of wireless carriers T - Mobile US Inc and Sprint Corp, according to consumer advocates who warned the combined company would hike fees for pre-paid and other low - cost mobile phone plans.

The Bank of Nova Scotia also hiked up fees and charges across transactions and accounts.

THEY, have also had to pay hugely inflated transfer fee for all of them, and, apart fro Di Maria, Utd are a big step up from their previous clubs, and, will get a huge hike up in wages.

AFC fans have been paying through the nose to shatter gate (ticket) fee record in Europe for so many seasons, and this hike in price of ticket is meant to sustain the club and at the same time make us compete with the big clubs and if the fans have being doing it for years then let the club do it (world record fee) for once and knows what the fans are passing through all this while.

Constantly trying to hike up an already astronomical transfer fee is just one of the ways Levy is stretching Madrid and their transfer target Gareth Bale's patience to the limit.

If an agency hikes up the adoption fees for the most «in demand» babies (typically white, healthy newborns) while «discounting» the adoption fees for babies in less demand (children of color, especially males), they are not only baby selling (see point # 1), but they are also allowing only the wealthier families to adopt white children while «limiting» less wealthy families to children of color.

Instead, he said, most have criticized the Park District's fee hikes and lack of harbor amenities.

The student fee hikes include a $ 10 increase to $ 100 a year for transportation for students who live within 1.5 miles of the school but opt to ride the bus and a $ 5 raise to $ 33 a year for textbooks.

Of course, the hike in fees may lead some to conclude that a university course is not for them.

«52,000 people wanted to stand in opposition to the hike in fees, and to remind Liberal Democrat MPs of the pledge they made in the run - up to the election.»

Again, 52,000 people wanted to stand in opposition to the hike in fees, and to remind Liberal Democrat MPs of the pledge they made in the run - up to the election.

There is still four - and - a-half years until the planned date of the next general election, but student anger against the tuition fees hike backed by the Lib Dems - who signed a pledge promising to oppose any increase before the general election - is unlikely to fade away.

The proposal would hike the cost of a two - year permit for residents in uncorporated areas of the town to $ 100 from $ 20, and raise other fees.

The Oyster Bay Town Board tabled a resolution to increase parking permit fees at commuter lots Tuesday following public criticism of the proposed hike and disagreement among board members at a board meeting.

Treasurer Joe Hockey's first budget, handed down last night, will tighten the belts of most Australians, with tax hikes, tighter welfare rules, new GP fees, and cuts to health and education spending.

This week a good government group sued Suffolk over similar fee hikes, saying the money was intended to fill a general budget hole rather than cover the cost of providing real estate services.

Town officials did not respond to requests for estimates of the revenue the proposed fee hikes would raise.

I have pledged that I will be a strong voice for upstate and our district and oppose tax hikes and fees increases that are driving too many residents out of our state.

And if you factor in the student loan, the housing ladder and so forth then the fees hike may well have the effect (since the NPV of a degree isn't all that impressive as it is, as far as I'm aware) of disadvantaging some groups relative to, say, plumbers or junior bankers in a way that won't be helpful to society as a whole.

Nassau would raise an additional $ 916,000 by hiking more than 80 Parks Department fees, including a round of golf at county courses, renting a cabana at Nickerson Beach and using local ice - skating rinks and swimming pools.

NIFA officials expressed concern Tuesday night about whether estimated new revenue from fee hikes, auctioning of seized vehicles and other initiatives were realistic and would get the necessary legislative approvals.

The tabled fee hike proposal would have increased the annual cost of a permit to park at the town's rail station parking lots to $ 100 from $ 10 for residents of unincorporated areas and to $ 175 from $ 80 for residents of incorporated villages within the town.

The fee hike would have added approximately $ 3.6 million in revenue to the $ 700,000 assumed in the 2018 budget, based on types of the 41,202 permits issued and valid through March 31.

In a Jan. 5 memorandum, John Bishop, deputy commissioner of the highway department, said the fee hike was needed because of «the increased cost of maintaining and improving our town's parking facilities.»

Chairman of Parliament's Subsidiary Legislation Committee Mahama Ayariga has served notice he will sue authorities at the various universities if they don't reverse hiked fees for the 2017/2018 academic year.

Today, 10,000 students are expected to take to the streets of London complaining about the hike in tuition fees to a maximum of up to # 9K per year.

Wallace is particularly angry about the lavish spending in light of the Authority's planned hikes to ground rent, a fee that all neighborhood property owners pay on top of regular taxes.

Unlike the Liberal Democrats» broken pledge to oppose hikes in tuition fees, which has severely dented the standing of the party on the national stage and clobbered Clegg's own personal ratings, the Conservatives had a clear mandate to proceed with reforming Britain's hospitals, schools and other vital public services to drive up the quality in a more cost effective way.

After both counties hiked mortgage fees this year, Nassau is considering an increase of the mortgage recording fee from $ 300 to $ 350.

It therefore came as a major surprise when news broke of Ghana's Electoral Commission's (EC) objective to hike the fees for candidates intending to file for the positions of President and Parliamentary positions.

To close the nearly $ 17 billion deficit, the trio proposed a series of new taxes on the wealthy (hikes start at $ 300,000 for families and $ 200,000 for single filers), and fees across the board.

The Nassau County Legislature voted Monday to hike fees for a wide range of services, including golf at Eisenhower Park, permits for home renovations, admission at Old Bethpage Village Restoration and cabanas at Nickerson Beach.

«There's little pleasure in being right, especially as we saw a drop in student applications of almost ten per cent this year following the massive hike in fees,» said Hunt.

The Nassau County Legislature voted to hike fees for a wide range of services, including golf at Eisenhower Park, permits for home renovations, admission at Old Bethpage Village Restoration and cabanas at Nickerson Beach.

The Senate on Aug. 3 approved the last budget bill — the so - called «revenue» legislation — that calls for more than $ 1 billion in new tax and fee hikes and several hundred million dollars of other revenue «actions» to help balance the $ 136 billion fiscal plan.

What we are faced with now is not just the obvious further commodifying of education through the hike in tuition fees; it's also the virtual abandonment of any real State funding of either the Arts or the Humanities.

The management of the University of Ibadan (UI), Ibadan, Oyo State, has said it would not reduce the hike in its fees despite protest by medical...

GBENGA ADENIJI writes about the fee hike in some Nigerian public universities which is posing a threat to the academic sojourn of most students It was like a nightmare when Bowale Aderemi (not real name) heard that the N25, 000 tuition fee he normally pays at the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo State, was no -LSB-...]

The Senate, which is controlled by Republicans, has rejected all of the $ 1 billion in tax and fee hikes that are in the executive budget, including the opioid surcharge, a Senate GOP spokesman said.

The state oversight board in control of Nassau's finances voted unanimously Thursday to reject the county's 2018 budget after lawmakers stripped out $ 60 million in fee hikes — setting up a showdown with the GOP - controlled county legislature.

This year, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has proposed a $ 1 billion suite of tax and fee hikes as part of an effort to close a $ 4.4 billion shortfall.

The Long Island Board of Realtors, AAA and government watchdogs such as Reclaim New York on Monday criticized the fee hikes.

Adam Barsky, chairman of the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, a state oversight board in control of the county's finances, said the GOP amendments fail to comply with their directive that fee hikes be replaced with recurring revenue increases or budget savings.

William J. Lindsay III, of Bohemia — joined four Republicans and Working Families Party member Kate Browning, of Shirley, in opposing the fee hike.