Sentences with phrase «of tax abuse»

The extent of the tax abuse nationally is unknown.

Certainly the IRS is trying to crack down on this type of tax abuse.

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Although the Daniels case doesn't pertain to sexual harassment, business owners should be aware of a new provision under the tax law that limits firms» ability to deduct settlements related to sexual harassment or abuse.

Experts say that for the business owners, tax abuse comes in the form of living off their business.

These benefits would (i) largely go to developers and contractors for infrastructure projects like new pipelines that would happen even without new incentives and so be highly regressive; (ii) raise costs by failing to reach the tax - free pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and international investors who are the most plausible sources of incremental infrastructure finance; (iii) not encourage at all the highest return maintenance projects like fixing potholes that do not yield a pecuniary return for investors; and (iv) by offering credits at an unprecedented 82 percent rate, invite all kinds of tax shelter abuse.

When it was all over, the tally of alleged wrongdoing cited here today, assigned to one party or another, included unpaid taxes (NDP), abusing election laws (Conservatives), improperly taking money from charities (Liberals), improperly claimed expenses (Liberals), illegal campaign debts (Liberals), illegal political donations (NDP), flouting Hill security (NDP), a potentially illegal cheque (Conservatives), secrecy (Conservatives) and sabotaging the committee to select the parliamentary budget officer (Conservatives).

The 25 percent tax rate for pass - throughs is particularly galling, because it has no principle at all behind it, and will be the subject of widespread abuse, as taxpayers maneuver to squeeze their incomes into the pass - through business box.

These benefits would (i) largely go to developers and contractors for infrastructure projects like new pipelines that would happen even without new incentives and so be highly regressive; (ii) raise costs by failing to reach the tax - free pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and international investors that are the most plausible sources of incremental infrastructure finance; (iii) not encourage at all the highest return maintenance projects like fixing potholes that do not yield a pecuniary return for investors; and (iv) by offering credits at an unprecedented 82 per cent rate, invite all kinds of tax - shelter abuse.

According to the report, this move (and others) would solve tax avoidance as well as the misuse of legal entities and legal arrangements, potentially used to defraud or abuse financial holdings.

After all, there are all sorts of unfair tax rules and abuses, including large corporations shifting income overseas to avoid Canadian taxes, the ability to deduct and split the fat pensions of government employees and even the ability for some to set up fake private companies to benefit from small business tax provisions.

Going after tax cheats — personal or corporate — is important work and I take no issue with government tightening rules and / or throwing the book at those guilty of abusing Canada's tax system.

«The IRS offers no explanation as to how the IRS can legitimately use most of these millions of records on hundreds of thousands of users; instead, it claims that as long as it has submitted a declaration from an IRS agent that the IRS «is conducting an investigation to determine the identity and correct federal income tax liabilities of United States persons who conducted transactions in a virtual currency during 2013 - 2015» the Court must find that the Summons does not involve an abuse of process.

The Consumer Federation of America, among others including myself, have written about the high cost of tax assistance services for low - income taxpayers and the potential for consumer abuse including price gouging.

The 2014 deliverables included reports on the digital economy and harmful tax practices, as well as draft rules on treaty abuse and the transfer pricing of intangibles.

2) The catholic church is to disclose all information of child abuse to US authorities in 30 days — up to and including whether the current pope knew of the abuse of children (which he almost assuredly did given his past roles in the church hierarchy); if this does not happen, the the catholic church loses its tax preferred status indefinitely

Whereas the church can have more tax - free investments — after they pay for the cover - up of child abuse.

After one particularly offensive show on Aug 19, 2010 where he and his cohost, Crank, spent the morning railing against the «mentally diseased perverts» everyone else calls gay, preaching that women aren't equal to men and should be home raising the kids and making dinner, and Blacks need to kick their drug habits and get a job instead of freeloading off his hard earned tax dollars by trading in their food stamps for drug money, we started a blog documenting his abuses on the air waves.

Congress needs to stop this abuse by these idiots by lifting their tax exempt status for threatening any group of Americans.

Guilting the flock into giving 10 % of their income (before taxes) is stealing just like elder abuse.

Here the figures of speech, the examples selected, and the persons addressed all belong to the villages of Galilee — the savorless salt thrown into the street, the one lamp that lights the whole household, the village blasphemer with his string of profanity and terms of abuse, the temple pilgrim offering his one gift, the village judge and the jailer, the local ruffian swift to strike, the king's man or garrison officer who compels the peasant to carry his baggage or to yield up his own cloak, the sinner's field wet with the same rain that falls on his righteous neighbor's, the local tax collector, the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, the child asking to be fed, the fruitful trees and the unfruitful, the wise and foolish house - builders.

What conservatives and libertarians are most animated about nowadays is the abuse of public - good authority, particularly as such authority has been misused for a very long time to tax and spend, not generally on public goods like defense but on wealth - transfer programs, such as social security, Medicare and Medicaid, and other entitlements — the kinds of programs, in other words, that have effectively bankrupted Greece, are threatening to bankrupt several other European nations, and are undermining the European Monetary Union.

The definitely don't want to follow Him into the world, to serve the poor and homeless, to look after orphans and widows in their distress, to live among «the least of these,» to show love, grace, mercy, and forgiveness to the outcast, the rejected, and the abused, to make friends with the «tax - collectors and sinners» of our day.

While everyone is quite rightly outraged by the abuses of the IRS in singling out conservative group for audits, intrusive inquiries, and endless delays on approval of their tax - exempt status, it has occurred to me that there is one simple solution to the problem that would not require nearly as....

The social harm done by alcohol abuse almost certainly is increased by the imperfections of the current tax regime, and so has been the problem of oversupply in the wine industry.

And if they're afraid of saying the word «tax», then maybe that's because they've abused the tool so much in the past, that they've lost sight of what a tax is really meant to accomplish!

For some, flexibility and resilience is taxed by postpartum mood disorders, traumatic birth experiences, medical conditions, or a past history of abuse.

«But we will not tolerate abuse of the system by people trying to dodge their tax obligations.

Johnson also reminds me that while he headed the committee, there were several «contentious» hearings, including one on the collection (or lack thereof) of taxes on cigaretts sold on Indian lands, and another on alleged abuses by the Medicaid inspector general to name two.

· Transfer of assets abroad — that the rules which tax individuals in respect of assets and income transferred abroad are restrictive and disproportionate, in the sense that they go beyond what is reasonably necessary in order to prevent abuse or tax avoidance.

«Instead of apologizing to his constituents for coming under a House Ethics investigation for potential insider trading and abuse of office violations, Collins has spent his time in Washington — when he's not voting to cut healthcare coverage and raise taxes for millions of New Yorkers — bragging to anyone who will listen about how much money he's made for himself and other members of Congress on this insider deal.

A Republican state lawmaker on Friday called for the end to film tax breaks after the revelations of sexual harassment and abuse by producer Harvey Weinstein.

The Advisory Panel on the proposed General Anti Abuse Rule (GAAR) should be wholly independent, with no representatives of HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), say the two leading professional bodies for tax practitioners.

The state has a vital role to play in both ensuring that all companies that operate under its jurisdiction meet their social obligations (by, for example, taxing them on all revenue generated within a territory), while at the same time promoting forms of corporate governance that cement company independence as a means of protecting against the abuse of economic power.

We need to hold the line on property taxes, continue helping Superstorm Sandy victims get back in their homes, work to increase aid to our local public schools, and fight the scourge of opioid abuse that has plagued Long Island.

Akshar himself has released a handful of ads focused on broad themes such as cutting taxes and paring back regulations, while also tackling heroin abuse.

In a forthcoming report from New York University's Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management by Eric Kober entitled «Uses and Abuses of Value Capture for Transit,» Kober writes that the first, similar iteration of the proposal «diverts New York City's largest and most stable tax source in a manner that could affect the City's fiscal stability.»

He was an original author of the Tax Cap and helped get that passed and was the driving force behind passage of the landmark Buster's Law making animal cruelty against pets a felony because animal abuse is a bridge crime and those who harm pets often go on to hurt people.

Syracuse, NY - Jim Malatras investigated the abuse of the Empire Zone tax break program when he was the legislative director for former Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, critic - in - chief of state public authorities.

This might of course point to otherwise undetected tax abuse, but in any event suggests that the cost - effectiveness of the relief might need to be reviewed.

At the Oct. 19 Delegate Assembly, the first since the summer break, UFT President Michael Mulgrew reported on principals abusing the teacher evaluation system, the dysfunctional Special Education Student Information System and the need to make the state's richest pay their fair share of taxes.

Deposit - taking licences of banks and auditing licences of accountancy firms should be suspended for tax abuses.

Principal among the policy positions of Mayor - elect Bill de Blasio as a candidate was his promise to put an end to the abuses of stop and frisk; a pledge to ensure universal Pre-kindergarten by taxing New Yorkers making over $ 500,000; and creating and preserving greater units of affordable housing.

Residents can expect to see a decrease in taxes for the second year in a row and more funding for the fight against the county's growing epidemic of drug abuse.

As the taxpayer's watchdog, one of Mark's first actions was to strengthen the office's Audit Division and shape it into an Inspector General - style organization that stops and prevents waste, fraud and abuse of county tax dollars.

«[Assembly Speaker Sheldon] Silver covered up sexual abuse of young interns and staffers for years, using hundreds of thousands of tax dollars to pay off victims, and Andrew Cuomo protected him from criminal investigation after Silver got caught doing it,» Mr. Astorino said.

These general principles include the principle of «abuse of rights» which currently operates to protect HMRC from egregious tax avoidance in the sphere of VAT.

The right way to tackle abuse of the benefit system is through tailored welfare to work schemes that provide both carrot and stick,» SMF director and tax and benefits specialist Ian Mulheirn said.

NI numbers are required by most employers and can also be used to claim benefits, but a Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) memo seen by The Times suggests concerns about possible abuses are being overridden by the demands of tax collection.

It goes to show how people abuse and disrespect the tax payers» money, in spite of repeated warnings by the government.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's top issues for the remainder of the session: Ethics reform, a «plan» to combat heroin abuse, a statewide cancer screening and prevention program and a replacement for the 421 - a tax abatement program that expired earlier this year.