Sentences with phrase «per cent limit»

Moreover, the Pension Adjustment, which reduces the 18 per cent limit of gross income maximum deduction by the amount paid into their job pensions, cuts their potential RRSP savings.

However the overall cash envelope handed to schools for teacher pay will stay within the Government's one per cent limit on public sector pay.

The main changes to the School Teachers» Pay and Conditions Document since 2010 include: (a) the introduction of a 25 per cent limit to the discretionary payments which can be made to a head teacher (b) a # 250 payment to those unqualified teachers who earn a full - time equivalent of # 21,000 or less

Downing Street has insisted there is no change in the Government's policy on the public sector pay cap, after mounting Cabinet pressure for the 1 per cent limit on annual rises to be eased.

The combination of higher interest rates and tighter lending standards contributed to the share of new loans that are interest - only falling comfortably below the 30 per cent limit.

In Hoey's opinion, the federal government's efforts amount to little in trying to entice a foreign company to enter Canada's wireless market, mainly because a cap on foreign involvement still exists in the form of a 10 per cent limit on the market share of any wireless entity with international financial backing.

Not exact matches

But because operators bill at such a high rate for data roaming — at about 15 cents per kilobyte of information in France, for example, which is roughly the amount of information in this paragraph — consumers typically reach that limit within a few hours of downloading standard e-mails.

We limit production by requiring farmers hold scarce and costly licenses (called quotas), and levy tariffs approaching 300 per cent on imports from abroad.

Even though they're spending $ 900 million over five years to satisfy the NDP, the cash - strapped Liberals are making right - leaning promises to limit spending growth to 1.8 per cent a year, rebalance the books in 2017 - 18 and have no new taxes.

All of that spending will have a limited effect on the province's net debt - to - GDP ratio, however, which stands at 37.1 per cent.

With the existing $ 5,500 - per - year contribution limit, all but the top few per cent of families will soon be able to shelter all of their assets from taxation.

The shutdown led to oil storage tanks in Alberta to fill to record volumes and sent the spread between Western Canadian and U.S. crude to more than US$ 30 a barrel, while the regulator - imposed 20 per cent reduced capacity on Keystone has continued to limit a recovery.

Foreign ownership limits for large telecom companies such as Rogers Communications Inc. (TSX: RCI.B), Bell (TSX: BCE) and Telus (TSX: T) remains at 33.3 per cent.

PERILYA Limited has acquired about 25 per cent of the unlisted oil and gas explorer Strike Oil NL after purchasing six million shares at 50c each.

PORTMAN Limited is on track to boost the capacity of its Koolyanobbing Iron ore project in WA to 3.5 million tonnes per annum in 2001 after completing key infrastructure changes and posting a 65 per cent increase in iron ore sales during the six months to

«That's why we put forward a budget that speaks to strategic investments in economic growth and job creation, while at the same time transforming government by achieving our savings targets and limiting program spending growth to 1.1 per cent.»

This February, Manitoba followed suit, passing a regulation — modelled on an existing Alberta law — that limits settlement fees to 10 per cent of debt and bans upfront fees entirely.

Admittedly, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has lifted that limit several times before — in 2007 its was $ 350 billion... meaning that taxpayers» exposure to the housing market has risen by 70 per cent in just four years.

We helped limit raw log exports, launched the British Columbia Community Forest Association and used the Softwood Lumber dispute to reallocate 20 per cent of logging tenures across B.C.

But Prime Minister Callaghan then urged that the government make further concessions to the unions, including «exemptions from the 5 per cent pay limit, tighter price controls and extension of the principle of «comparability,» under which public sector workers could expect more money.

To put this in operational terms, if we have limited price stability credibility, we have to be more careful that inflation does not depart much from 2 1/2 per cent, or depart for too long.

Among other things, banks were required to limit new interest - only lending to be no more than 30 per cent of new mortgage lending.

The current process attempts to minimize the impact of the pro-cyclical nature of the EI rate - setting mechanism by limiting any change to no more than 10 cents per year (employee rate).

The Institute also proposes to limit employee compensation growth to 1 per cent annually for 2013 and 2014.

The annual growth rate for coal production varied between 1.2 and 1.9 per cent per annum throughout the period from the 1560s to 1800, with only limited variation.

The employee EI rate is now to be limited to a 5 - cent per - year increase until the EI Operating Account is balanced.

Plus, policy - makers will want to limit any further gains in the Canadian dollar, which is up almost 9 per cent since early June, when the central bank first adopted a tightening bias.

If banks are extending credit limits that are too high so that a poor guy gets a 90 or 95 per cent mortgage, then all of a sudden there is a drop of 20 per cent in the market and he has to renew his mortgage, he is done like dinner.

To most readers, this did not mean the dissolution of the CEIFB, especially when earlier on the same page, the Minister of Finance stated that «the CEIFB will continue to set the rate but the Government will limit rate increases to no more than 5 cents per year until the EI Operating Account is balanced».

Flaherty also said the government will limit future increases to a maximum of 10 cents per $ 100 of insurable earnings.

Despite the rapidly rising number of TFSA holders, the number who maximized their limits has fallen sharply — by nearly 40 per cent between 2009 and 2013.

A stiff challenge, put completely out of reach for most Canadians by the federal Income Tax Act, which limits tax - deferred retirement saving to 18 per cent of income or $ 22,970 — whichever, in words the income tax form has made so familiar, is less.

They diminish our credibility with our trading partners and limit market access opportunities for Canadian companies and workers, including the 80 - per - cent share of Canada's agricultural sector that is not subject to supply management.

According to the Philippine Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board, only around ten per cent of some 30,000 Uber cars currently have permits, a situation which would create «an uneven playing field» for other transport services such as taxis, buses and jeepneys — which all require licenses — and «unduly challenge the limit of fair regulation,» the transportation regulator said.

APRA introduced its first set of macroprudential reforms late in 2014 when it introduced speed limits on the banks» investor loan books by capping growth at 10 per cent per annum.

Once the Quebec government's investment is complete, it will own 49.5 per cent of a new limited partnership with all the assets, liabilities and obligations of the CSeries aircraft program.

As part of that guidance, lenders will be required to limit the share of new mortgages that are interest - only to 30 per cent.

That is consistent with banks limiting the share of loans with LVRs (at origination) above 80 per cent.

One would hardly realize that the problem facing U.S. industrial employment is that wage earners must earn enough to pay for the most expensive housing in the world (the FDIC is trying to limit mortgages to absorb just 32 per cent of the borrower's budget), the most expensive medical care and Social Security in the world (12.4 per cent FICA withholding), high personal debt levels owed to banks and rapacious credit - card companies (about 15 per cent) and a tax shift off property and the higher wealth brackets onto labor income and consumer goods (another 15 per cent or so).

Under the agreement Suncorp retains 70 per cent of policy premiums, coverage limits and losses and reinsures the remainder.

The report revealed that out of four million current account holders, ten per cent breach their limits at least one month a year.

She told the Mail on Sunday: «Instead of listening to lobby groups, the BMA should be listening to British women, 70 per cent of whom want the abortion time limit to be lowered from the current 24 weeks limit - one of the highest in the Western world.»

Several studies of young unmarried mothers have found that between 20 and 25 per cent became pregnant again within two years (with the rate going much higher among certain minority groups) The repeat of pregnancy appears to be related to a lack of knowledge about the risks of sexual intercourse, limited opportunity for further education, boredom with homelife, and the unavailability of a strong female support group.

Since its sample represents only 29 per cent of all births in only 16 per cent of all United States hospitals, its usefulness as illustrative of the whole country is limited.

The limited downside is offset by the 6 per cent yield and the prospect of a turnaround, the analysts say, which could see shares rally 9 per cent.

It is operated by Snowy Hydro Limited, an unlisted public company which is 58 per cent owned by NSW, 29 per cent owned by Victoria and 13 per cent owned by the Commonwealth.

Woolworths Limited has a direct 75 per cent interest in ALH.»

However, the survey results were not published on the corporation's website until last month, after a follow - up survey in May had recorded the far more favourable result of 84 per cent support for the 20,000 hens per hectare density limit.

Horticulture Australia Limited, HAL, is contributing 40 per cent of the funds.

Bega has a limit on ownership of its shares of 10 per cent for one shareholder.