Not exact matches
As of the end of July, there were nearly 123,000 consumer
proposals and personal bankruptcies
filed by Canadians this
year, a decline of 1.2 per cent from the same period last
year.
Earlier this
year, Ann's trustee
filed a consumer
proposal on her behalf.
«This
year once again breaks the previous record for the number of resolutions
filed, and companies are having less success than ever in knocking out
proposals under SEC rules,» says Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow, in the preface to the report.
«[W] orkplace diversity
proposals (which mostly concern rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and those seeking more diversity among corporate board members) account for 9 percent of the total number of shareholder resolutions
filed so far this
year.»
Investors have
filed a record number of shareholder
proposals on ESG issues this
year, with a focus on climate change and corporate political activity, according to the As You Sow shareholder advocacy group.
This
year's shareholder
proposals filed or coordinated by NCPPR ask companies «to protect political free speech rights, but all those that have been challenged at the SEC have been omitted,» Proxy Preview elaborates.
NorthStar, based in Boston,
filed six
proposals this
year asking companies to adopt language that they would seek greater board diversity.
Leslie Kennedy (R - Smithtown) will
file a resolution calling for the county to seek a new request for
proposals on the county's $ 5.6 million a
year contract with Verizon.
The following
year, the company
filed the current
proposal, which had the support of many business, energy and labor groups because of its promise of new jobs, cheaper gas and an additional source of fuel.
The
proposal expands the eligibility of a small business to include any business that
files under PIT regardless of how the business is structured; raises the income eligibility threshold from $ 250,000 to $ 500,000 when the business entity income is less than $ 1.5 million; eliminates the employee requirement; increases the exemption from 5 percent to 15 percent for small business income and from 5 percent to 20 percent for farm income; increases the corporate tax threshold from $ 390,000 to $ 500,000; and reduces the corporate business income rate for small businesses from 6.5 percent to 2.5 percent over two
years.
File photo of Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney during her 2012 budget
proposal to the county legislature last
year.
In the past few
years, more than 100
proposals for hydrokinetic projects have been
filed with FERC.
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Since California's waiver was rejected last
year, and the state is not reapplying this
year, CORE is going its own way,
filing for a waiver under a provision of NCLB allowing districts to submit
proposals.
Dylan Baerlein, who graduated from Marjory Stoneman Douglas last
year, asked the commissioners to
file a
proposal to override a current state law that prohibits local governments from creating their own gun control policies or face a fine.
Interest stops building upon accepted
proposals from the date you
file your consumer
proposal, making it possible to see real progress, reduction in your already «reduced» debt with each payment made — in like amount to the actual consolidated, monthly payment made — unlike what you previously experienced with minimum payments on your credit card that never seemed to reduce the balance owing, leaving you more despondent with each passing month and
year.
If you have been out of school for less than 7
years, you can still
file a consumer
proposal but things get more complicated.
Section 178 (1)(g) of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (BIA) sets out that student loans through the government can not be discharged unless seven
years have passed from the time they ceased to be a student and the time they
file personal bankruptcy (or a
proposal).
In fact, about 50,000 Canadians
file proposals every
year, and that number is rising.
Today around 125,000 Canadians
file bankruptcy or a consumer
proposal each and every
year.
Those who
file bankruptcy or a consumer
proposal with the highest amount of student debt are between 30 and 39
years of age and have been out of school for more than seven
years.
In doing a
proposal, the taxes from the
year in which the
proposal is
filed are not automatically included in the
proposal.
Your
proposal will include all tax debt up until the
year of
filing but not any owing for the
year you
file your
proposal.
Betty
filed a consumer
proposal for $ 300 per month, for five
years.
I don't know if you've seen it or not, but of our clients who are seniors, so again I'm defining that as 60
years of age or older, 11 % of them have payday loans when they
file a bankruptcy or
proposal with us.
A Consumer
Proposal will remain on your credit
file for three
years after you have completed making all the associated payments.
a) Where the debtor has carried on business during the
year immediately preceding the date of the initial bankruptcy event [
filing the consumer
proposal];
What we do is we take all of the data from all of our clients over the last couple of
years, because if you
file a bankruptcy or consumer
proposal with Hoyes Michalos, obviously it's a legal process, we're required to gather a bunch of data, obviously your name and address but a whole bunch of detail on your debts, your assets, your income that sort of thing.
In excess of 100,000 Canadians each
year have to
file some type of bankruptcy protection — either a consumer
proposal or personal bankruptcy.
Three or four
years ago almost a third of our clients owned a home and still got into trouble and went bankrupt or
filed a
proposal.
Per capita consumer insolvency rates in Ontario have fallen to a 15 -
year low, yet almost 40,000 individual Ontarians
filed a bankruptcy or consumer
proposal in 2016 alone.
The primary criteria are that you have been out of school for 5
years and that you have been bankrupt or
filed a consumer
proposal.
Each
year in Canada, more than 120,000 people
file for bankruptcy or a consumer
proposal, a popular alternative to handling debt in Canada.
Joe went from a credit score in the bottom 15 % of the population before
filing his
proposal to a credit score in the top half of the population one
year after his
proposal was completed.
After this 7
year «waiting period» however, if you still haven't been able to earn enough income to repay your student loans, personal bankruptcy or
filing a consumer
proposal can be a good option.
It's not the date of
filing that matters; it's the date that you complete your
proposal that starts the three
year clock.
A consumer
proposal is different than a bankruptcy
filing, because the note about
filing bankruptcy in Canada remains on your credit report for six
years from the date of discharge.
The fact that you
filed a consumer
proposal will stay in the legal section of your credit report for up to three
years after you complete your
proposal.
As you can see from the numbers, the number of
proposals «passed as
filed» has declined slightly over the last three
years (from 92 % to 88 %), indicating that creditors have become somewhat more «picky» in the amounts they are willing to accept.
As Licensed Insolvency Trustees, Sands & Associates are experts in bankruptcy and debt consolidation — and we
file more Consumer
Proposals each
year than any other BC - based bankruptcy trustee.
Even if you have not ceased being a student at least 7
years ago, you may still find relief from student loan debt by
filing a consumer
proposal because:
While I'm sure many former students would like to
file a consumer
proposal or bankruptcy to deal with their student loan debt, they can't, unless they are willing to wait seven
years for the automatic discharge rule to kick in.
Most people are surprised when they learn how many Canadian consumers have
filed for Bankruptcy or Consumer
Proposal as an insolvency solution in the past ten
years: over one million individuals.
Most people are surprised when they learn that one million Canadians have
filed for Bankruptcy or Consumer
Proposal as an insolvency solution in the past ten
years.
If I were to
file for bankruptcy, or a consumer
proposal, in Quebec, and after a
year or two I won a substantial amount of money, what would happen to these funds in a court case?
The note placed on your credit report indicating you
filed a consumer
proposal stays there for three
years after it's completion.
The good news is you can build a 5 -
year debt repayment plan by
filing a consumer
proposal.
Yes, might encounter major problems where the consumer
proposal is
filed less than seven
years from the date of end of debtor?s education
If you
filed for personal bankruptcy or made a consumer
proposal and you did so less than seven
years after the end of your post-secondary education then you are not entitled to an automatic discharge or forgiveness of your student loan debts.
If you are contemplating
filing for personal bankruptcy or making a consumer
proposal in the hopes of discharging your student loan debt then you should seek the help of a professional to ensure that you have satisfied the 7 -
year waiting period.