Sentences with phrase «raised business taxes»

The unemployment rate is on the rise, utility costs are some of the highest in the region and the government has raised business taxes.

Raising Business taxes and business leave the state or worse, close their doors.

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Some business owners are concerned about the idea of «chipping in,» who the «hardship waiver» would apply to, and whether the promise not to raise taxes to cover the $ 900 billion cost over the next ten years is one that Obama can keep.

Wondering if taxes will raise or remain the same leaves consumers and business owners hesitant to touch their reserves because they may need it to pay Uncle Sam.

Perry also had an uneven record on taxes, cutting them for property owners, but raising them for small business owners by broadening the state's franchise tax base.

Philip Hochstein of the Independent Contractors and Businesses Association of B.C., for one, is reminding anyone who will listen that NDP governments raise taxes, enlarge government and generally cause investors to lose confidence.

But while the nonprofit, nonpartisan lobby group says it represents the interests of small business owners, some Democrats are raising questions about both its funding sources and its tax status.

Americans want to see tax cuts turn into a pay raise, but on Main Street most small - business owners don't plan to increase employee wages.

A new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research has found that tax policy has a dramatic impact on businesses and, if raised too high, could drive consumers to the black market.

Republicans and the Trump administration have argued that tax cuts for businesses would lead companies to investment more and raise wages for workers.

«If a business doesn't have the resources to raise capital when it needs to, manage tax situations effectively, or execute increasingly complex accounting issues [such as] revenue recognition, then they could run into some serious problems,» explains Calvin L. Hackeman, a partner at Grant Thornton LLP, a large accounting firm in Chicago that serves both small and midsized businesses.

In addition, Glencore's relations with its former business partner, state mining firm La Generale des Carrieres et des Mines (Gecamines), have been strained over the new mining code that raises taxes and royalty payments.

Most small - business advocacy groups believe the studies that show that raising taxes on small - business owners earning more than $ 200,000 a year will cause their companies to cut back on capital investment and hiring.

And a TD Economics report suggested Canadian firms will soon stop paying down debt and hoarding cash to «take advantage of the nation's much - improved business tax climate to retool and raise productivity levels.»

As the details of this plan become known, and as the political response builds from people who fear their taxes will be raised, and as they build a coalition with special interests who would lose out from other aspects of the proposal (like investors who do not like the proposed limitation on the deduction of business - interest expenses), this plan will become an enormous liability.

He also voted against raising the minimum wage, against tax cuts for the middle class, and most importantly to entrepreneurs, against the Small Business Jobs and Tax Relief Act in 20tax cuts for the middle class, and most importantly to entrepreneurs, against the Small Business Jobs and Tax Relief Act in 20Tax Relief Act in 2012.

President Obama announced tax cuts for small businesses that hire new workers or raise current workers» wages, and a special tax credit of $ 4,000 for employers that hire people who have been out of work for more than six months.

According to the Scorecard, four in five small business owners are not able to dole out raises to make up for the payroll tax increase.

Federal government could stimulate venture markets by introducing a capital - raising incentive such as a deferred capital gains tax for reinvestment of proceeds into small - business shares, effectively channeling locked - up capital earning uncompetitive returns into the shares of small enterprise.

[23] By taxing the land's rental income and that of subsoil minerals provided freely by nature, industry could free itself from the sales and excise taxes that raised the cost of living and doing business.

In recent weeks it has hit back with its own threats, raising concerns among farmers and businesses in the United States that the escalating dispute could be a drag on the economy and blunt the effect of the tax cuts Mr. Trump signed into law in December.

How much GST is raised by taxing the carbon tax really depends on what businesses choose to pass on to consumers, the report notes.

The problem is that privatization and regressive tax shifts raise the cost of living and doing business.

This approach reduces the debt problem to one of the degree to which taxes must be raised to carry the national debt, and to which businesses and consumers must cut back their investment and consumption to service their own debts and to pay these taxes.

The rub is that totally eliminating all deductions for those with incomes over $ 1m would not even raise enough revenue to cover reducing their marginal tax rates from 39 to 33 per cent, let alone offset their benefit from huge rate reductions on business and corporate income, and the elimination of estate and gift taxes.

B.C.'s resource royalties are also far too low, and need to be revisited and raised (something even the business panel reviewing B.C.'s tax regime last summer acknowledged, but which last week's B.C. Budget left untouched).

Among Republicans and Republican leaners, 41 % say tax rates on corporations and large businesses should be lowered, while 32 % say they should be raised (23 % want them kept as they are).

About a quarter of U.S. adults (24 %) say tax rates on corporations and large businesses should be lowered, while roughly twice as many (52 %) say they should be raised.

However, business groups have been urging the Liberal government not to raise taxes further, warning that such a move could place Canada at a competitive disadvantage in light of U.S. President Donald Trump's pledge to support a «massive» tax cut for the middle class.

New Democrats proposed: Joining forces with thousands of British Columbians who soundly rejected the HST, New Democrats repeatedly raised concerns about the negative impacts of the HST on families and small businesses, campaigned for the elimination of the tax, and advocated for a faster return to the PST.

In August 2014, the business reported just $ 17m in earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) and had just raised $ 19m to stave off the banks.

While I agree that the tax system should be fair and equitable for all, I am very concerned that the proposed changes will negatively impact hardworking small and medium - sized business owners, lawyers, accountants and physicians who play by the rules, create jobs in our community and are also raising young families in Riverbend.

Establishing your business as a sole proprietorship, a partnership or a corporation will affect the type of funding you are able to raise, your own personal liability, how the business is taxed, and more.

Many small businesses considered passing along the tax - related savings to their employees in the form of bonuses and raises, thinking it was a win - win in terms of boosting employee retention and triggering spending.

«A major concern expressed by smaller businesses is the incremental CPP premiums, which they perceive as a payroll tax increase that will raise their cost of employing workers and thus discourage hiring.

«Businesses across America have already started to raise wages, and more than 100 companies have already given bonuses and other benefits to hundreds of thousands of workers as a result of these massive tax cuts,» Trump said Monday in Nashville.

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«Raising taxes when the unemployment rate is already so high will have negative ramifications as higher taxes translate to smaller paychecks for employees as well as smaller returns for business owners,» Amidei says.

And when creditors turned their economic gains from this process into political power to shift the tax burden onto wage earners and industry, this raised the cost of living and doing business — by more than technology was able to lower prices.

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The Seattle City Council is considering a «head tax» on high - grossing businesses to raise about $ 75 million a...

So perhaps when the Finance Minister stood in the House and said, «We will not raise taxes,» what he should have said was, «We will not raise taxes, but we will provide a level playing field for our Canadian companies and Canadian businesses.»

Obamacare raised premiums, will cause millions to lose their employer - provided health insurance, discourage businesses hiring workers full - time, and raised taxes to boot.

Localities that rely on real estate taxes may not be able to even if they want to, and states can not raise taxes without driving out prospective residents and businesses.

Raising taxes on small business & the «evil rich» won't stimulate job creation.

Mitt Romney, who as governor signed an assault weapons ban into law, raised taxes on business by 20 %, was publically pro-choice and introduced «socialized medicine» (their term not mine) to the nation.

He (Barrack) would expand the Gov., raise taxes, punish succesful businesses and individuals, negotiate with evil regimes, not drill for oil towards energy independence.

Many have married, helped raise families, worked hard, opened small businesses, and paid their taxes.

«Our unique business model affords us lower operating and tax expenses and allows us to raise capital to support the business without loans,» PUC explains.

One reporter wrote that Taylor was «the big bad bogeyman of the brewing business» who lacked the sense and grace to «realize that you can do many things to an Englishman — raise his taxes, heft shop prices, even steal his wife — just so long as you don't interfere with his beer.»