Sentences with phrase «on smaller government»

Through the 1990s Thompson subsisted on smaller government projects for satellites used in research and navigation.

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The Trudeau government campaigned on a promise to incrementally reduce the corporate tax rate for small businesses from 11 % to 9 %.

Whether small business owners think their state government is supportive or hostile depends on who they are, the kind of business they are running, where they are located and their political beliefs.

The incentive program — consisting of a 90 percent government guarantee on the SBA's flagship 7 (a) loans for start - ups and small businesses, as well as a trim or total cut of the fees on 7 (a) and 504 loans — was set to expire February 28.

Both U.S. and U.K. intelligence agencies issued warnings on Monday of Russian cyberattacks that could target government offices, small businesses, and individuals, according to The New York Times.

The summer started with a reasonable (if clumsy) attempt by the government to stop incorporated individuals from taking advantage of the lower small - business tax rate, and ended with people such as Arlene Dickinson, the investor and Dragon's Den star, talking about an assault on entrepreneurship.

With Finance Minister Bill Morneau set to deliver the budget on March 22, small business owners are still in the dark about what exactly the government has in store for them.

The Canadian Medical Association, argued in its pre-budget submission that the government should maintain access to the small business deduction for physicians, since they enter the workforce later in life and often with significant debt, and unlike small businesses are unable to pass on higher costs to clients.

Between advancing the government's agenda in the lower chamber and her mandate to help the country's small firms become «more productive, more innovative and more export - oriented,» Chagger's impact on Canada's economic future could be considerable.

It's hard to convince small business owners that if they work extra hard or take on additional risk to expand their businesses, that the government is entitled to more than half of the rewards.

The government focussed on eliminating measures in an effort to level the playing field between incorporated small businesses on the one hand and unincorporated businesses and salaried employees on the other.

Large companies bidding on big contracts need small company subcontractors to meet the goals set by government regulators.

Government can help by focusing on small - scale businesses with an appetite for innovation.

These men are betting that fusion done on a small scale will be cheaper, less complex, and ready for market sooner than the big government projects.

The NBS said investment by the government grew by 11 % year - on - year between January to September, outpacing that from the private sector which grew by a smaller 6 %.

The reasons are four-fold: structural changes in the American economy have triggered a long term downward trend in entrepreneurial activity; changes in the banking system have made small business credit more difficult to get; a post-recession shift in attitudes has made Americans less interested in striking out on their own; and a shift in government policies has made entrepreneurship more challenging to undertake.

Here's what Curry and the Globe shared from the conclusion of the final report on the focus groups: «When asked, there was strong support for the government offering subsidies to support innovation, rather than providing tax cuts or investments, particularly for smaller organizations,» states the final report summarizing the research.

Beyond its direct services, Livestrong also lobbies the government, conducts research on survivors, and funds smaller nonprofits like Camp Kesem, a camp for kids whose parents have, or have died from, cancer.

Baidu — alongside other companies like Google (googl) and General Motors (gm)-- is also actively encouraging a push for better coordination between autonomous vehicle manufacturers and the U.S. government, saying that it's necessary to make small changes to existing infrastructure and ease regulatory obstacles in order to get self - driving cars on the road.

On the other hand, to a small but noisy band of ideologues who consider the whole premise of government intervention to preserve free enterprise oxymoronic, all this is hardly enough; they've intensified a campaign to shut down the SBA altogether.

A new report from American Express on small - business owners doing business with the U.S. government shows that active contractors spent almost $ 129,000 in the past year seeking out those opportunities...

RBS, which is 84 percent owned by the British government, will get 47 percent of the sale price, and expects to report a small gain on the deal, it said.

Verizon, if it chooses, appears to have a lock on purchasing one or more of the smaller regional Canadian telcos such as Wind Mobile, Public Mobile or Mobilicity, an option so far denied the large Canadian telcos by the Harper government.

Canadian business leaders are skeptical of government plans to reduce the paper burden on small business.

When Karen Mills announced in February that she would not stay on for a second term as head of the U.S. Small Business Administration, she still planned to remain in her post until the government agency named a replacement.

Government support of small business and investments in women - owned startups could do much to keep America on the forefront.

Telus has tried to acquire the small provider on two occasions but was denied both times by the government, meaning there's zero chance the company can sell out for relative big bucks to an incumbent.

The government proposes to charge a flat, top rate, non-refundable tax on passive income earned when a small business corporation invests its retained earnings.

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But Lesko's lists pertain mostly to small business: you'll find information on agencies that give development assistance to expanding companies, economic reports that regional Federal Reserve banks will send you, government surplus - property auctions, whom to ask about overseas selling, how to find financial data on a company or franchisor, where to apply for research grants — in sum, information on the offerings of nearly every federal, state, and local bureaucracy in the country.

By targeting small businesses, the government is focusing on the kinds of companies that have actually put people to work since the financial crisis.

The Western Australian government has called on its federal counterpart to beef up its Trade Practices Act (TPA) to help protect small business against predatory pricing by big business.

Whether or not putting big government and small startups in the same room will result in Moscow's Silicon Valley on the Moskva remains to be seen.

Small businesses would get a subsidy from the federal government — the more low - wage workers on the payroll, the bigger the subsidy.

You have to, then, blame policy, and the fundamental policy approach over the past five years has been to spend more on social programs and government assistance, all at the cost of America's businesses, the small business owners and our most successful earners.

The large and accelerating rates of incorporation happened because of the weird interaction of two different populist instincts: (1) Even tax - cutting governments were reluctant to reduce personal income taxes on the top tier of income - earners, for fear of being accused of delivering «a tax cut to the richest Canadians;» (2) Just about every government from Jean Chrétien's onward was eager to cut small - business tax rates, because this seemed to be a handy spur to the plucky spirit of the theoretically job - creating mom - and - pop entrepreneurial class.

That message orchestration starts in Stouffville, Ont., where he was reportedly set announce a small business tax cut shortly before noon, effectively returning to a 2015 election promise then failed to deliver on in the government's first two budgets.

The president «recognizes that the government must take steps to streamline regulations on small businesses,» according to Fetcher, noting several initiatives begun during Obama's first term, including a government - wide review of regulations and support of the JOBS Act.

One result — neither entirely positive nor negative — of the smaller contracting budget of the U.S. government is that small - business contractors are no longer as reliant on Uncle Sam.

The consumer sector ETF, CHIQ, and the small - cap ETF HAO focus on areas that are to receive particular attention in government policies going forward.

The survey is part of its Government Contracts Program, which helps train and educate small - business owners on how to win government Government Contracts Program, which helps train and educate small - business owners on how to win government government contracts.

He is a strong proponent of a smaller local government and supports cuts to certain popular programs and caps on entitlements to township employees to keep the budget in balance.

«Many smaller businesses might be on the cusp of being defined as a large employer — namely those having 50 full - time equivalents — and thus being under this law,» says Christine Pollack, vice president of government affairs for the Retail Industry Leaders Association in Arlington, Va., and a spokesperson for an industry coalition called Employers for Flexibility in Health Care (E-FLEX), which was formed two years ago to fight for changes to the Affordable Care Act.

On the one hand, if the lead in cross-border cases is automatically given to the country where the company's headquarters are located, that may encourage companies to establish their European bases in countries with small regulators (although to be fair, the Irish privacy regulator is beginning to get stepped - up government funding).

While content on the government's Small Business Administration site can overlap with HealthCare.gov, its blog is worth a read.

The administration also is delaying requirements for verifying individuals» eligibility for government health premium subsidies, and previously postponed for a year an ACA feature that will allow employees to choose from multiple employer plans on small - business health exchanges.

A NEW Federal Government - funded program will help small to medium enterprises take advantage of international trade on the Internet.

Many pharmaceutical companies continue to work on treatments for neurological diseases, as do many smaller biotech firms and academic medical research centers, and funding sources for these pursuits include private foundations as well as governments.

Keeping on subsidizing southern Ontario businesses and wading into the venture capital game do not exactly square with Flaherty's small - c conservative description of government's proper economic role as «benign and silent.

Our Government has reduced the red tape burden on small and medium - sized businesses.