Sentences with phrase «over revenue raising»

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The revised bill cuts that amount to 25 percent, raising government revenue by $ 32.5 billion over a decade.

These riches were at least as important to the Eritrean government as they were to Nevsun: by various estimates Bisha would provide about US$ 1 billion in royalties and revenues over its life, and raise the country's annual GDP by several percentage points.

Fortune ran numbers to calculate how much extra revenue the U.S. would need to raise, over the next decade, if it lowered the rate of growth in Social Security by one percentage point, reduced increases in Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care spending by a proportional amount, and held discretionary spending below growth in GDP (albeit from the higher base established by the new laws).

Rather than having gamers fork over the $ 60 most traditional video games cost, Quick Hit is offering its version for free and hopes to raise revenue through online advertising and the sale of in - game extras.

Since then, we've won or raised over a quarter of a million dollars, quit our day jobs, started generating revenue, and hiring employees to grow our business.»

In a letter sent to Yahoo on Thursday, the investment firm Starboard Value argued that the reason for spinning off the Alibaba stake — avoiding taxes while raising money for shareholders — appeared to have evaporated after questions arose over whether the Internal Revenue Service would crack down on such transactions.

The rub is that totally eliminating all deductions for those with incomes over $ 1m would not even raise enough revenue to cover reducing their marginal tax rates from 39 to 33 per cent, let alone offset their benefit from huge rate reductions on business and corporate income, and the elimination of estate and gift taxes.

MaRS» ventures have created over 4,000 jobs and, in the last three years alone, they have raised over $ 750 million in capital and earned over $ 375 million in revenue.

In the last three years, MaRS startup clients have raised over $ 750 million in capital, earned over $ 375 million in revenue and hired well over 3,500 workers into knowledge economy jobs.

In the last three years, MaRS startup clients have raised over $ 500 million in capital, earned nearly $ 300 million in revenue and created over 2,600 new knowledge economy jobs.

Adding to this new information is some research conducted by Womenable way back in 2007, Mapping the Missing Middle: Determining the Desire and Dimensions of Second - Stage Women Business Owners, which not only raised the point that not enough policy and programmatic attention was being paid to established women - owned firms that had not yet cracked the million - dollar revenue barrier, but sized this population at between 16 % (if defined to include firms with employees or between $ 100,000 and $ 1 million in revenues) and fully 91 % (if having employees and revenues over $ 100,000 was not a criterion) of the entire women - owned business population.

But, as seen in the Figure above, because income taxes have been cut, the province's reliance on income tax revenues have dropped by one third over the last decade, so much so that income taxes now raise about the same amount as sales taxes.

There have been reports by the Broadbent Institute (the Kesselman study) as well as the Parliamentary Budget Office that also raise concerns about how over time the implementation of the expanded limit will increase the size of the tax exempt base and erode future government revenues.

Some have pointed to Helomics revenue being in the $ 8 million range (which I'm not sure if it is), and that Helomics has spent over $ 50 million in research over the past 5 years (which appears to be the case based on the past capital raises).

Separately, Yahoo Inc. disappointed investors, reporting a revenue increase of just 2 % over the same quarter last year and raising questions about the financial outlook for the pioneering search engine operator.

Capping the income tax inclusion at the 75th percentile of plan costs beginning in 2020 would raise $ 200 billion — enough to fund the revenue loss from repealing the Cadillac tax twice over.

The 1.5 cents per ounce tax was pitched in Philadelphia as a means of raising revenue — over $ 400 million is expected to be collected in the next five years — to be used for pre-K education and other city programs.

And now the park district is considering turning management of the harbors and other revenue - raising facilities, such as parking lots, golf courses and Soldier Field, over to business.

«The Treasury's own figures reveal that even with the escalator it'll raise no extra revenue over the next two years, because it's hitting beer sales and encouraging people to drink other things.»

The debate over creating new dedicated revenue for the MTA has revived discussions of congestion pricing, which would add tolls to city roads and possibly the East River bridges in order to both manage traffic while also raising money for transit.

There is a strong case in the medium - to long - term for dropping the 50p tax rate but retaining it over the next few years will raise revenue and help to show that we really are «all in it together».

Joining them were politicians from high property - tax states such as New Jersey, Connecticut and California, creating a stumbling block for the new framework over the measure meant to help raise revenue for other tax cuts.

It also one of the biggest revenue earners for the Government, with VAT raising in 2015 - 16 about # 116 billion - more than over 20 per cent of government revenue.

POLITICO Florida reported Tuesday that top lawmakers were considering April 23 to begin a Special Session after House Speaker Richard Corcoran last week raised an alarm over the loss of revenue share from the Tribe.

Some of the stalemate over the Fiscal Cliff has been over whether to raise the tax rate on the wealthy in order to raise additional revenue.

June 15th 2009 - The Calman Commission, chaired by the University of Glasgow's chancellor Sir Kenneth Calman, calls for the Scottish parliament's accountability to be improved by giving it more responsibility over the raising of tax revenues.

Beekmantown's tax levy is set at 0.63 percent for the 2016 - 17 school year with $ 40,143,176 in revenues — leaving over $ 120,000 to be raised locally.

A report released on Tuesday by Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office raised alarms over the state's budget picture, finding lower tax revenue and a $ 4.1 billion budget gap.

The Tories claim that will raise # 14.1 bn over the same time period - leaving the «black hole» figure, the gap between their analysis of increased spending and increased revenues under a future Labour government.

State legislators and city officials, who have praised the governor's leadership on Close to Home, say the loss of the revenue is compounded by the fact that the program is expected to triple in size over the next few years when the city implements the Raise the Age initiative.

On Monday, Cuomo raised the rhetoric in his battle with the Seneca Nation of Indians over casino revenue sharing payments by saying he would conditionally allow a non-Indian casino in Western New York.

The bill, which is likely to become a flash point in the debate over the federal debt, would raise $ 40 billion worth in additional revenue, according to estimates by the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation.

Magee criticized Iannuzzi's administration for its response to Cuomo's property - tax cap, over which the union eventually sued, arguing that it disproportionately limits poor school districts» ability to raise revenue.

«We haven't seen a lot of big ideas coming out of the de Blasio administration over the past four years, and when there are some ideas, they typically don't have a funding plan,» said Tolkin, an entrepreneur with a $ 25 billion transit plan and a for - profit business model to raise city revenue.

Ditching the state and local tax deduction known as SALT would raise $ 1.3 trillion in revenue over the next decade.

Eliminating fossil fuel subsidies would slash global carbon emission by 20 percent and raise government revenue by 2.9 trillion, well over the funds needed for intelligent policy and action on climate adaptation.»

$ 8 billion) over first ten years for deficit reductionObeys PAYGO; Starting in 2026, 25 % of auction revenues for deficit reductionFuels and TransportationIncrease biofuels to 60 million gallons by 2030, low - carbon fuel standard of 10 % by 2010, 1 million plug» in hybrid cars by 2025, raise fuel economy standards, smart growth funding, end oil subsidies, promote natural gas drilling, enhanced oil recoverySmart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, raise fuel economy standards $ 7 billion a year for smart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, natural gas vehicles, raise fuel economy standards; offshore drilling with revenue sharing and oil spill veto, natural gas fracking disclosureCost ContainmentInternational offsetsOffset pool, banking and borrowing flexibility, soft price collar using permit reserve auction at $ 28 per ton going to 60 % above three - year - average market price» Hard» price collar between $ 12 and $ 25 per ton, floor increases at 3 % + CPI, ceiling at 5 % + CPI, plus permit reserve auction, offsets like W - MClean Air Act And StatesNot discussedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade suspended until 2017, EPA to set stationary source performance standards in 2016, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade pre-empted, establishes coal - fired plant performance standards, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedInternational CompetitivenessTax incentives for domestic auto industryFree allowances for trade - exposed industries, 2020 carbon tariff on importsCarbon tariff on importsReferences: Barack Obama, 2007; Barack Obama, 8/3/08; Pew Center, 6/26/09; leaked drafts of American Power Act, 5/11/10.

A positive performance over the Holiday period prompted the Canadian yoga and leisure apparel maker to raise its profit and revenue forecasts for the fourth quarter.

That helped raise the overall American box office revenue for the weekend - which marked a 50 % gain over this same period last year.

A marathon debate over education funding continues in Ohio, where school groups are already divided over a May 5 ballot measure that proposes hiking the state sales tax by 1 cent in order to raise revenue for schools.

In recent years, districts have used their tax authority to raise over $ 2 billion in additional annual revenue statewide.

Throughout Washington, D.C., and around the country, parents are raising hundreds of thousands — even millions — of dollars to provide additional programs, services, and staff to some of their districts» least needy schools.7 They are investing more money than ever before: A recent study showed that, nationally, PTAs» revenues have almost tripled since the mid-1990s, reaching over $ 425 million in 2010.8 PTAs provide a small but growing slice of the funding for the nation's public education system.

For over 20 years states and courts have used these studies to devise rational school finance systems with a transparent relationship between state aid, student need and a district's ability to raise revenue.»

Fed up with gaping budget shortfalls, inadequate education funding and insufficient revenue, the Republicancontrolled Legislature capped months of turmoil by overriding the governor's veto of a bill that would undo some of his tax cuts and raise $ 1.2 billion over two years.

The fact that over one - third of Success Academy's revenue goes to overhead costs instead of student programs raises skepticism in light of its most recent skirmish with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

If implemented, the option would raise revenues by $ 195 billion over the 2017 2026 period, the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation estimates.

As discussed last month, this is a bit of a too much of a good thing crash all around — tax cuts into a strong economy sending inflation and interest rates high enough to lead the Federal Reserve to (potentially) over react and raise rates too high, causing a recession and growing debt issues as the government refinances debt at higher rates, all while a tax cut reduces federal revenues.

The road is almost 4 × 4 only and they could have paved this road 10 times over with all the revenue that has been raised over the years.

Other moves to pay for the plan include increasing building and facility rentals, increasing ancillary revenue, and increasing fund - raising revenue by an average of $ 1.2 million, or 25 percent, annually over the next five years.

Raising $ 2 billion over ten years — or a modest $ 200 million annually — would thus require increasing royalties by just 15.8 cents per barrel of oil and 2.7 cents per million British thermal units (MMBtus) of natural gas (assuming the necessary revenues were spread across oil and gas on an equal energy - content basis).