Sentences with phrase «owned by us the taxpayers»

Despite its name, RBS is currently majority - owned by the taxpayers of the entire U.K., since it needed a government bailout in 2008 to make up for bad investment decisions.

Ministers are more likely to be concentrating on news that high street bank RBS, which is 82 % owned by the taxpayer, suffered a # 1.5 billion loss in the first six months of 2012.

And I accept that excessive pay in banks owned by the taxpayer, and in other banks bailed out by the taxpayer, is a problem about which any government that cares for social justice ought to be concerned.

Delegates also voted to campaign to make all banks, whether owned by the taxpayer or not, to increase their lending to businesses and to councils to fund a massive council house building programme.

RBS share trading resumed now - 73 % owned by taxpayer - market cap was # 35bn on Thursday, now worth # 25bn.

Public statistics are owned by taxpayers.

A related party corporation or partnership is one where more than 50 % of the stock or more than 50 % of the capital interest is owned by the taxpayer who owns the corporation or partnership.

A: A tax lien is only the governments «invisible» claim on the property that is owned by the taxpayer, but a tax levy is the actual seizure of the assets owned by a taxpayer.

With a levy the IRS can take money from bank accounts, garnish wages, or even seize physical property owned by the taxpayer.

(a) The dwelling unit is owned by the taxpayer for at least 24 months immediately after the exchange (the «qualifying use period»); and

(a) The dwelling unit is owned by the taxpayer for at least 24 months immediately before the exchange (the «qualifying use period»); and

Not exact matches

The tax was suggested by the IMF as a way to force banks to fund their own bailouts in times of crisis, rather than drawing from taxpayers» pockets.

In addition to his own IG's report on his wife flying to Europe at taxpayer expense, Shulkin earlier this month was hit by another IG report that criticized the department for a series of failures at a big veterans» hospital in Washington.

Taxpayers affected by these regulations are corporations and individuals that own QBUs subject to section 987.

The Clark government has also proposed that taxpayers fund hydro dam construction to subsidize power for the energy - hungry liquified natural gas plants largely owned by foreign companies.

These documents show that an entire strategy was developed by the B.C. Liberals based on using taxpayer dollars for their own partisan purposes.

Some of the most frequently asked tax questions center on being a parent, owning a home, getting married and the like, according to research by TurboTax Live, which connects taxpayers online to certified public accountants and enrolled agents to address questions.

SINCE I»M READY WILLING & ABLE... If you're fully owned lock, stock & barrel by the taxpayer, then the Devil just lost his claim on you!

All World governments are owned lock, stock & barrel by the taxpayer & THE DEVIL JUST LOST HIS CLAIM!

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

The Prospect Heights Park District and School District 23 entered into an intergovernmental cooperation agreement to save the taxpayers money by sharing the use of properties owned by District 23 and the Prospect Heights Park District in a manner that the facilities may be utilized to their fullest capacity.

Hall spokesman Patrick McGarrity said: «Our democracy is weakened by candidates who spend millions of their own dollars trying to buy elections and then force their radical ideas on people like letting corporate polluters like BP off the hook — sticking taxpayers with the bill.»

Opening arguments began this week in the federal corruption trial of Pedro Espada, Jr., and his son Pedro Gautier Espada, who are accused of using the Soundview Healthcare Network as «their own taxpayer - funded piggy bank» by funneling more than $ 500,000 from the organization and spending it on cars, spa treatments, and other personal luxuries.

Welcome them, starting today with Mr. Sampson and Mr. Silver, to the New York Hall of Shame, where we'll take a glance at what the leaders and all this region's legislators are doing in the middle of a budget crisis — by their own account on their taxpayer - funded websites.

Avella's own office was the subject of sexual harassment and discrimination claims with expense records that indicate the state Senate paid a Manhattan law firm $ 22,444 in taxpayer funds earlier this year to investigate allegations of harassment made by a female member of Avella's district office staff.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is investing $ 750 million of taxpayer funds and the hopes of a community desperate for an economic recovery in a company that is losing money, weathering two federal investigations and facing, by its own admission, an uncertain economic future.

The energy savings generated by these efficiency improvements to state - owned buildings will not only repay the state's initial investment in a few years, but will continue to save millions of taxpayer dollars for years to come.»

Some say that this was by any fair measure one of the worst hands ever dealt taxpayers by their own elected officials.

«You can not possibly award yourself ludicrous, sky - high bonuses in an industry that has been bailed out by the taxpayer, when those same taxpayers are having to make very serious sacrifices in their own lives,» he said.

«There is no justification for massive pay and bonus awards in financial institutions, the most important of which are guaranteed or owned or have been rescued by the taxpayer,» he said.

Claim: Taxpayers contributed almost # 100,000 to help pay the mortgage on a # 1.35 m flat owned by the Northern Ireland secretary, it is reported.

Shaun Woodward Taxpayers contributed almost # 100,000 to help pay the mortgage on a # 1.35 m flat owned by the Northern Ireland secretary.

A retired engineer has Silver on Monday, accusing him of using $ 103,000 in taxpayer money to protect his own political interests by secretly settling sexual harassment claims involving Lopez.

«The very company entrusted by our city to build a time keeping system for New York City employees has grossly mismanaged their own time keeping and in the process overcharged the city taxpayers for sums of money still to be determined,» Liu said.

«Why is $ 750 million of taxpayers funds going into building a building and equipping it that's going to produce one product, yet untested commercially, and the company is owned by a billionaire.

Southern Tier CA$ H (Creating Assets, Savings and Hope) is an IRS sponsored Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program, led by Arbor Housing and Development, offering free tax help for low - to - moderate income families and individuals, persons with disabilities, the elderly, and limited English speaking taxpayers who need assistance in preparing their own tax returns.

Silver presides over the heavy Democrat majority in the Assembly and has come under criticism in recent months by members of both his own party and the Republicans for what Katz called his actions «in covering the sexual improprieties of Assemblyman Vito Lopez with taxpayer dollars by means of the «Miscellaneous Contractual Services» account.»

Out of respect for the taxpayers of Erie County, who constantly make adjustments in their own lives to make ends meet, government must lead by example and operate with a similar approach.

An MP is responsible for administering nearly # 100,000 of taxpayer money and I am very disappointed that the Cheadle MP has been, at best and by his own description, sloppy at handling this responsibility.

The Scunthorpe MP and former minister, who has been barred from standing for Labour at the next general election, said further examination by his own lawyers showed that taxpayers had paid for part of the capital sum of his mortgage.

Mr Grayling already owned three properties within the M25 but still bought the flat with loans subsidised by the taxpayer.

Maroney and Jobson were presumably so scared of not receiving the one - man - band Conservative Party line in November handed out by Lettre to his puppets, that they voted against their own Republican caucus to spend another $ 2.5 million of taxpayers» money and send the Conservative Party Chairman home happy.

ZKB, the biggest of Switzerland's publicly owned regional banks, «conspired with U.S. taxpayers to help them conceal their foreign accounts,» according to a lawsuit filed Nov. 6 by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara in Manhattan.

When introducing the bill, Senator Maria Cantwell (D — WA) said that about 1000 chimpanzees, half owned by the federal government, «languish at great taxpayer expense in six research laboratories across the nation.»

So the NEA's slush fund is in fact built by taxpayer dollars, which flow directly to the NEA instead of into the teacher's own bank account.

And, while it's nice to see Weingarten's concern for taxpayers, her own members are losing out by long vesting periods.

Those families would have saved the taxpayer money by paying their own education bill, but as they are eligible for a voucher, they can attend the private school at public expense instead.

If traditional public - school systems work by spending someone else's money on someone else's children, taxpayer - funded vouchers allow parents to spend taxpayer money on their own children.

They are held accountable for improved student achievement, receive taxpayer funding and are governed by their own boards.

«We won't accomplish our goals by creating a new federal bureaucracy or by bribing states with their own taxpayers» money,» DeVos said.