Sentences with phrase «paying road taxes»

Returning 85.6 mpg, the petrol - electric engine duet will save you from paying road taxes.

But still, foreign drivers — who number one in eight of all those on the roads — have a huge advantage over British drivers as they pay no road tax or other charges.

Not exact matches

A Prius takes up just as much of the road — and causes just as much rush - hour congestion — as a gas - burner, but pays a fraction of the gas tax.

We can thus expect governments to pay a lot more attention to road tolls in the future, if only to recoup their losses on gas taxes.

Keep in mind, Canadians already pay a road user fee of sorts: the gas tax.

Known in Vancouver as the man who rescued Expo 86 and helped get the 2010 Olympic bid over the finish line, Jim Pattison was called upon again in 2015, this time by Metro Vancouver mayors trying to promote a 0.5 % sales tax to pay for road and transit improvements.

And this doesn't include the fact that electric car owners don't pay into the Highway Trust Fund — which is funded by the per - gallon tax on gasoline and pays for road construction and upkeep.

Property taxes in Nevada pay for such local services as roads, schools and police.

Taxes serve to pay for municipal services, such as public schools and road maintenance.

The new taxes are planned to pay for road maintenance and improvement as well as general use.

When you sell the shares down the road you would pay taxes on the appreciation at lower capital gains rates.

Fuel Tax: Fuel tax is a road pricing scheme in which motorists pay a tax on the fuel they buy at the puTax: Fuel tax is a road pricing scheme in which motorists pay a tax on the fuel they buy at the putax is a road pricing scheme in which motorists pay a tax on the fuel they buy at the putax on the fuel they buy at the pump.

Our tax money goes for more than social services; we're also paying for roads, research, and the national defense.

Umm... and yet you have no problem paying for schools you and your kids do nt attend, insurance for drivers that don't have any, roads that not everyone uses, providing welfare because you have a job and someone else does nt, and a whole host of other items your taxes go to help pay for.

Meanwhile, the Exxon millionaires don't have to pay any taxes and they have a life of luxury, and don't help pay for any roads, schools, etc..

Consider your taxes to be the RENT you have to pay to live in this great country with good roads, etc..

My taxes pay for a lot of things that we take for granted, police officers, teachers, public schools, our highway systems and bridges, roads and light fixtures for our everyday usage and our countries defense by way of paying our men and women who are defending our lives right now both here and abroad.)

Where the rubber hits the road on this is when you perform a function or service, get paid and then pay taxes.

In those cases the court deferred to the judgment of the Air Force that the free - exercise claim of a Jewish officer who wore his yarmulke on duty could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of correctional authorities that the free - exercise claim of a Black Muslim to attend Friday afternoon religious services could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service that building a logging road through a national forest was necessary despite the damage to religious practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their work.

When colonial governments in Africa found that natives were reluctant to work on plantations or roads, they required them to pay taxes in cash, which they could obtain only by wage labor.

If you balk at paying taxes please tell me where the money for our country's roads, bridges, policemen and firefighters should come from?

Oh Beck, if you and yours, in your utter stupidity, don't want to pay taxes, then get the hell off the roads, don't call the police when you are mugged, don't call the fire department when you house burns down, and don't come whining to us when terrorists kidnap you.

If we could tax Churches, perhaps they wouldn't be as much of a resource suck and we could use the Christians to pay for education, roads, etc...

Currently, residents living south of County Line Road pay taxes to the Dundee Township Park District.

For instance, small businesses pay sales tax in the community, which filters into the school system, public parks, roads and local service workers.

The tax increase would go toward paying off bonds that were used for the $ 2.4 million purchase of the Christ farm, north of Illinois Highway 176 and east of Briarwood Road.

Two hotly debated «pass the pool» referendum measures were sunk in 1997 by voters who did not want higher property taxes to pay for a proposed multimillion - dollar family aquatic center on Park District land at Hunt Club Park on Hunt Club Road.

In exchange for Lake in the Hills paying for infrastructure such as roads and sewers, the Park District would share tax money gleaned from the development with Lake in the Hills, according to Lake in the Hills officials.

«Even doing those groins not to allow the water to break cost a lot of money and then with frozen taxes in the last eight to ten years, there has not been any increase in taxes unlike in the United Kingdom for instance where any young person living there knows that once you start working at the age of 18, your civic obligation is that you must pay tax but here nobody takes it as their business that the new road I am using I need to pay something and so they only pay tax when they are inside the real tax net that is you are paying pay as you earn.

«That is the only way we can catch you and so everybody takes it for granted that government will do it and there is nothing like government money, it is taxes that people are paying that you are asking for this shoreline protection, it is from the taxes that you are asking for us to de-flood, it is from the taxes that you are asking for us to do the roads and all that.

The roads could be paid for without a centralized tax system by using a toll road system.

«Worldwide, a lot of regimes allow businesses to carry forward tax losses, the reason is that government is a silent shareholder in businesses because the taxes paid are used to construct roads, hospitals, pay doctors etc».

At the same time, that shrinking, aging population, facing higher tax rates and lower property values, must pay for all the needed services — police, fire, health, education, road maintenance — both in the hollowed out city and the inefficiently sprawled out countryside.

In essence, the taxpayers were being hit twice by having to pay his salary, while also making up for the taxes that he wasn't paying to fund schools, police and emergency services, garbage collection, road repairs and more.

The cost of maintaining e.g., a public road is more or less the same no matter how many people use it, and so if you have lots of people living and paying taxes on a street, each person should not have to pay much to maintain it.

As the Times Union's Amanda Fries reports, the land at 22 Hammond Road had been foreclosed on by the county earlier this year after the previous owner failed to pay taxes.

Each year you drive on these roads, and each year you pay your taxes, you deserve to have those taxes going toward decent, maintained roadways.

On the recommendations of Kate Barker's housing review last year, a consultation has been launched into the introduction of a planning gain supplement, which would allow local authorities to tax developers on their profits and use these to pay for roads and schools.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce will call for increasing the federal gas tax by 25 cents a gallon over the next five years to help pay for rebuilding U.S. roads and bridges as part of its push for a federal infrastructure initiative this year.

«Under the Trump proposal - which just passes the buck from the feds to states, cities and counties - to build a project like I - 81, local taxes would rise and all drivers in the Syracuse area would be forced to pay a «Trump Toll» every time they got on that road,» Schumer said.

The Governor also talks about the proposed increase in the cigarette tax as an indirect way to plug the budget to help pay for road funding, early childhood education funding, as well as whether the Superintendent of Public Instruction will become an appointed position.

The county comptroller, Stefan I. Mychajliw, a Republican, said he would welcome the opportunity to use that money to cut taxes and pay for overdue bridge and road repairs.

There is, finally, a provision that would allow the MTA to create special districts in New York City and then claim the real estate tax receipts from those districts to pay for MTA projects, like a further extension of the Second Avenue Subway, the vastly over-budget project bringing the Long Island Rail Road to Grand Central Terminal, and a proposal to bring Metro - North to Penn Station, by way of the Bronx.

Gov. Scott Walker has insisted he won't raise taxes to pay for roads, unless there's a corresponding cut someplace else.

«We need a New York that works for all of us, where big corporations are responsible for paying their fair share of taxes to support our schools, roads, public transit and the services that we all rely on,» said Tomas Garduno, political director of ALIGN.

Mr. Russell said piercing the tax cap wouldn't affect the town's credit ratings or its fund balance, which he has so far declined to use to pay for road repairs.

In a range of proposals designed to show the coalition has not run out of ideas, Cameron and Clegg will set out plans for a flat - rate childcare voucher paid through the tax system, likely to be worth up to # 2,000 per child; a cap on the cost of social care; new help with mortgages; and transport investment through road tolls.

Number 10 — A Road to Somewhere — Who would have thought that Indiana lawmakers would be thoughtful and responsible enough to not only come up with a multi-year, multi-billion road funding plan but also a way to pay for it using gas taxes and user feRoad to Somewhere — Who would have thought that Indiana lawmakers would be thoughtful and responsible enough to not only come up with a multi-year, multi-billion road funding plan but also a way to pay for it using gas taxes and user feroad funding plan but also a way to pay for it using gas taxes and user fees?!

That sales tax goes toward helping the county pay for anything from road repairs to staffing the local police departments.

«SUNY Upstate enjoys the benefits of expensive city services, including police and fire protection, road maintenance, and snow removal but pays nothing in taxes,» Miner said in a written release.