Sentences with phrase «raising much revenue»

Ultimate success for a carbon tax would mean so complete a shift to renewable energy that the tax would stop raising much revenue at all.

Under a carbon tax, the U.S. would keep emitting billions of tons of carbon dioxide annually for a long time — otherwise the tax wouldn't raise much revenue.

Later on, it also discussed the fees» failure to raise much revenue, concluding that «it is clear that the fees were not set at the optimal price: the price elasticity of demand was greatly underestimated».

Not exact matches

To determine how much revenue tampon tariffs raise for the government, I consulted the World Bank's World Integrated Trade Solution database.

Fortune ran numbers to calculate how much extra revenue the U.S. would need to raise, over the next decade, if it lowered the rate of growth in Social Security by one percentage point, reduced increases in Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care spending by a proportional amount, and held discretionary spending below growth in GDP (albeit from the higher base established by the new laws).

Among them, companies that raise money under Title III may run the risk of exposing too much of their inner workings — for example their revenue size, margins, and profitability — too early on.

Without significant revenue growth the company has been unable to offset the interest it pays on its heavy debt load, but First Data has hinted that an IPO could be on the horizon, Bloomberg reports, which would raise some much - needed funds.

The idea was a simple marketing appeal — customers could stop worrying about how much data they had left every month — combined with the possibility that many would move up to the new unlimited plans from cheaper limited plans, raising more revenue.

It doesn't matter how much cash you raise, without revenue generation you will eventually run dry.

OTTAWA — The federal government stands to raise as much as $ 280 million in revenue off provincial carbon taxes in Alberta and B.C. in the next two years despite claims carbon taxes would be revenue neutral for Ottawa.

In contrast to Alberta's largely cosmetic Specified Gas Emitters Regulation that does little to curb emissions or raise revenue for the province, British Columbia has implemented a much more comprehensive carbon tax.

With an end - date in sight, the wealthy can take advantage of various means to defer their income until the top tax rate returns to 14.7 per cent, thereby undermining the ability of the new tax to raise as much revenues as it should.

But, as seen in the Figure above, because income taxes have been cut, the province's reliance on income tax revenues have dropped by one third over the last decade, so much so that income taxes now raise about the same amount as sales taxes.

WeWork, which is said to be raising as much as $ 4 billion at a valuation of more than $ 20 billion, is still on its way to hitting $ 1 billion in annual revenue this year — though CEO Adam Neumann said at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2017 that it's not quite as simple as betting big on enterprise deals.

Digital payments firm Square published its first - quarter earnings report this week, providing insight into how much revenue the company has raised from its recently - launched bitcoin trading platform.

Put simply, the Laffer curve illustrates what happens when the government raises taxes too much — theoretically, it ends up bringing in less revenue than before the tax hike.

Not only will it create jobs and bring in much needed revenue without raising taxes but it will also deal a major blow to organized crime which has a stranglehold on the illegal gambling industry with an estimated $ 380 billion wagered annually.

«They will not say how much they expect to raise, and they will not say what they expect to do with the revenue.»

Do these NPP people not know how much goes into supporting National Security (even if the returns aren't quantifiable as it would be in the case of miners raising revenue for the country?).

«For state legislators, it is much harder to raise taxes on income or sales or cut spending on education or other vital services, while legalizing and expanding gambling is seen as a relatively easy and painless source of revenue and job growth,» said Lucy Dadayan, the Rockefeller analyst who wrote the report.

Too much time on their hands with no real crime to deal with, so they have to try to raise revenue by harassing innocent people because they're in motor vehicles and can therefore be stopped at will.

«We reiterate our call on the Government to introduce an Environmental Taxes framework or «roadmap» to provide much needed clarity around the future direction of environmental tax policy as taxes which merely shift pollution elsewhere, or which raise revenue without leading to greener behaviour, are failing to do their job.»

Seattle's wealthiest will become the only Washington state residents to pay an income tax under legislation unanimously approved by the City Council, a measure designed as much to raise revenue as to open a broader discussion about whether the wealthy pay their fair share.

«But the problem is, they immediately do what the neighboring state did when it had a monopoly and they immediately think that's how much revenue they will raise, and that's clearly not the case,» said McGowan.

«We think it is unecessary, it's tokenism, it's not going to raise much, if any revenue.

Comptroller Tom DiNapoli says the Thruway Authority is carrying too much debt, and spending money at a higher rate than the revenues that it's bringing in, and should look to savings and economies before raising tolls.

SPECTRUM NEWS VIDEO: Assemblywoman Carrier Woerner said lawmakers don't have much room to raise debt or revenue to overcome a budget deficit that could range from $ 1 billion to $ 4 billion.

New York state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli says the Thruway Authority is carrying too much debt, spending money at a higher rate than the revenues that it is bringing in, and should look to savings and economies before raising tolls.

«I think that legalizing marijuana and using the revenues to create an infrastructure fund to deal with these problems is a much more appropriate way to solve our problems than raising new taxes,» Giambra said.

I explore three broad hypotheses for why African Americans might not have benefited as much as whites from the funding initiatives: 1) kindergarten funding disproportionately drew African Americans out of higher - quality education settings; 2) instead of raising additional revenue to fund local kindergarten programs fully, school districts offered lower - quality kindergarten programs to African Americans or moved funds from existing school programs from which African Americans may have disproportionately benefited; and 3) African Americans were more adversely affected by any subsequent «upgrading» of school curricula as more students entered elementary grades having attended kindergarten.

Both Proposition 30 and Proposition 38 would raise much - needed revenue for California's classrooms, says Ama.

Since 1993, when the state imposed limits on how much districts can raise revenue, average teacher salary and benefits in Wisconsin have increased more than 4 percent a year, even though revenue limits have increased about 3.5 percent a year.

As a result, the average high - wealth district raises more than three times as much I&S revenue as the average low - wealth district, even at a lower average tax rate.

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If an established company is eating so much debt that they need more cash just to reduce their debt service, and they're not raising revenue, that smacks of a death spiral.

The change, however, has raised questions whether the tax increase would produce as much additional revenue as the Liberals expect, or if it would address income inequality.

With the federal deficit now estimated to come in at $ 18 billion (or more), there is nervous speculation that Finance Minister Bill Morneau may go beyond the specific tax changes already detailed in the Liberal pre-election platform and introduce new measures in his March 22 budget to raise much needed tax revenue.

That creates an issue in how much governments can raise in tax revenues, how much can our economy grow?»

PST will also be applied to the retail sale of cannabis, although revenue generated from this has not been included in the budget because there is still considerable uncertainty as to how much will be raised.

As discussed last month, this is a bit of a too much of a good thing crash all around — tax cuts into a strong economy sending inflation and interest rates high enough to lead the Federal Reserve to (potentially) over react and raise rates too high, causing a recession and growing debt issues as the government refinances debt at higher rates, all while a tax cut reduces federal revenues.

His proposed cap and trade would generate $ 645 billion in climate revenue, and his budget outlines that money going to help low and middle income families cope with the raised cost of utilities — much like Maryland's.

How much revenue would this policy raise?

This means the tax is now a much less efficient means of raising revenue.

Joshua If you are writing about the US or the EU, then given the budget situation, any addition revenue raised would not be available to do much but other than lower the annual deficit.

Is the true case against the carbon tax is it might raise revenue, but will not change behaviour much towards a green economy?

Since Australia exports a lot of embodied carbon, the tax on final consumption would raise a lot less revenue, and cause a much smaller economic shock.

That seemed unusual because the company was now delivering its cars, meaning it could bring in revenue, and it had already raised so much.

Lawmakers say the new rule could depress home values as residents choose to live elsewhere, thereby making it harder for local governments to raise much - needed revenues of their own.