Sentences with phrase «public around tax»

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Still, Apple's market capitalization remains the highest in any public market, amid optimism around tax cuts and major share buybacks.The company has announced plans to invest in advanced manufacturing in the U.S. and add a new campus.

Existing tax laws around equity - based compensation can even drive a company's employees to let their options go, and miss out on the future windfall when that start - up goes public or is acquired at a good price.

Until a few days ago, the narrative around the Greece crisis was that the damn Greeks should just pay their taxes, repay their debt, and get rid of some of the crazy public spending policies that cosset its citizens.

After being initially dazzled by the promise of the disruptive new model, regulators around the world have wisened up quickly to its negative side - effects — traffic congestion, public safety, and erosion of the tax base — and are now much more sensitive to the complaints of incumbents.

So the discussion in Addis Ababa revolved around things like how to finance infrastructure, how the public sector and the private sector can partner for best results, and how to change the tax systems that apply to multinational corporations so that they are more beneficial to developing countries.

The public outcry around 401 (k) savings generated during the tax - reform debate last year showed Congress that retirement is an important issue to Americans, said Brian Graff, NAPA's executive director.

«The strategies for reducing your tax bill for 2017 revolve around claiming all of the deductions and tax credits you legally deserve,» said certified public accountant Debbie J. Freeman, director of financial planning at Peak Financial Advisors in Denver.

Responding to research from the Consumers Health Forum, the Heart Foundation, the Obesity Policy Coalition and the Public Health Association of Australia, the Council's CEO Geoff Parker said better education around diet and lifestyle, not taxes, is a far better and more commonsense approach for a healthier country.

The NWLC graphic caught the public debate around tax cuts for millionaires at a good time, hitting a nerve with people angry about constant talk of budget cuts without tax increases for people who've done well in the last decade or two.

You still have the problem that funding higher education through flat rate contributions rather than proportionately through the tax system undermines some of our wider goals around public support for universal provision of public services.

Tentative deals have been reached on parts of a new state budget, including about $ 1 billion in additional funding for public schools, a work - around for some higher - income New Yorkers to reduce the impact of new federal tax deduction limits, and a freeze on what Albany sends to local governments around the state.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

The question, debated in places such as the Public Accounts Committee, has led to proposed reforms by the OECD, that have been accepted by the G20 and many others, in corporate tax regimes around the world in relation to how profits are calculated and allocated to activity.

The CEBR report found that if the Government raised the rate of corporation tax from 21 per cent to 26 per cent - the result of equalising the tax rate between big and small business - would cost around 100,000 jobs from the small business sector and reduce economic output by # 4.3 bn, while reducing the public sector deficit by only # 1.6 bn over 10 years.

He said negotiations failed around three major issues, including raising the age of criminal responsibility from 16 to 18, a potential cost shift from public schools to charter schools and a real estate tax abatement program in New York City.

Their local election drubbing seems to have redoubled the Tories» ardour for ideological zealotry, with the Tory Right (and where they go, Cameron will soon follow) now hawking around their demands for even bigger public service and welfare cuts (when we haven't even yet had 90 % of the first tranche) which will reduce tax receipts still further and ratchet up the recession another notch.

To turn New York's finances around, Cuomo is pushing for a cap on state spending and a freeze on state taxes and public employee salaries as part of a one - year emergency financial plan.

The program, which passed both legislative houses just before lawmakers left Albany at the end of session, establishes tax - free zones around public universities as well as some private institutions, plus a select number of sites.

Public - sector unions around the nation face growing political pressures not only from Republicans but also from their traditional allies among Democrats, as governors grapple with recession, declining tax revenues and pension funds perilously close to bankruptcy.

Speaking at a public lecture titled, «The State of the Ghanaian Economy — A Foundation of Concrete or Straw», chaired by Former President John Agyekum Kufuor, Dr. Bawumia revealed that, the total cost of infrastructure from loans, grants and taxes from 2009 to date, is around 7 billion dollars, whereas government has borrowed in excess of 39 billion dollars.

The April 15th income tax filing deadline is just around the corner, and a public - private alliance is encouraging people to take advantage of a free tax filing service.

Many Republicans in the New York State Legislature oppose the program, which carved out tax - free zones around public college or university campuses for new businesses.

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

But I'd imagine it was around the same time he realized that more voters would rather see property tax cuts than they desire statewide public financing of elections, which was part of Cuomo's unwatered legislation.

All benefits, tax credits and public service pensions, except the state pension and pension credit, will be increased in line with consumer prices inflation, rather than retail prices inflation, from next year, saving around # 6 billion a year by the end of the next Parliament.

In my judgment, that kind of leadership will require a comprehensive and sustained effort from both our public and private sectors — including a robust investment in education (especially the STEM fields), a federal commitment to research and development, a renewed emphasis on next generation manufacturing, translating federally funded breakthroughs to commercial applications in the private sector, an immigration policy that enables us to recruit and retain the best and brightest scientists from around the world, and appropriate tax, regulatory, and legal policy.

The effort to equalize funding was framed around a student - centered message to both legislators and the public: not sharing local tax revenue with all public school students, charter or otherwise, constituted discrimination.

Thus, as a public union, the NEA (so too the American Federation of Teachers), is, essentially, spreading around tax dollars, money over which the taxpayer has no control, an income redistribution effort that could easily be mistaken for a kickback or, in states where union membership and dues are not voluntary, a not - so - hidden and not - so - representative tax.

In total, states spend around $ 800 billion tax dollars per year funding public education.

Using tax credits to fund the scholarships, instead of direct payments from public treasuries, enabled lawmakers to work around state bans on the use of public funds to support religious institutions.

An effective carbon tax has already been imposed on the global public by the oil price rise, which of course increases the price of things which have to be moved around — ie.

If it is a member of the political elite, whose goal it is to raise direct or indirect carbon taxes in order to have more public funds to shuffle around, we have one end user requirement.

They believe they're entitled by being «government» to take tax payer money and jet around the world on the public's teat.

The main public dispute and debate continues to swirl around whether the carbon tax compensation is enough to offset the flow - on effects of the carbon tax.

DONG's Eldrup said electric cars would be very attractive to the Danish public if the government agrees to major tax incentives (consumers in Denmark currently pay around 180 percent in registration taxes for a new car).

With the impact of the Panama papers pending, how the public sees its governing authority could change, as it has so far revolved around the notion that governments turn a blind eye to tax dodging.

As soon as you're leaving companies to decide whether they should offer to pay more tax, or enable voluntary disclosures, it might go down well with the public, but again we're back at the catch - 22: what happens when the institutional shareholders demand a particular return or dividend, they're not going to be happy when the Director turns around and says «well we can't do that because we voluntarily paid more tax this year».

In effect, that means it's impossible for the public to retrieve a copy that lays out a detailed explanation of how Faraday plans to spend money at the site in the coming years, despite that a $ 215 million tax incentive package was approved for the project and upward of $ 175 million in bonds may be issued to build infrastructure around the site.