Sentences with phrase «recent budget measures»

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Recent federal budget announced measures to bring Bitcoin transactions within scope of Canada's anti-money laundering law

For example, a recent Parliamentary Budget Officer analysis of tax expenditure changes from 2005 to 2013 demonstrates that multiple new measures introduced by Stephen Harper provided new benefits to tax filers in the 96th to 100th percentiles.

They had opposed some of their party's misbegotten tax and budget proposals in the recent past, but their votes were not enough to defeat the measures.

In a recent interview with The News Service of Florida, Senate President Joe Negron, a Stuart Republican, said lawmakers may considering using the Joint Legislative Budget Commission to shift some of the guardian funds into other safety measures if the money goes unspent, although it was too early to make that determination.

State leaders and Thruway officials in recent years have undertaken a number of cost - cutting measures, including staff layoffs and having the State Police budget absorb the cost of patrolling the toll roads, an expense that had previously been on the Thruway's books.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in his January State of the State and budget address introduced a package of ethics measures, but has largely focused in recent weeks on increasing the state's minimum wage to $ 15 and creating a 12 - week paid family leave program.

Linking both the DREAM Act — a measure supported by liberals in the Legislature — with the education tax credit has been floated in the Capitol in recent budget negotiations, but lawmakers have insisted the two should be kept as separate issues.

In recent days, the Chancellor Phillip Hammond has hinted at a few of the measures he will announce on Budget Day to meet his pledge to build 300,000 homes a year — a more ambitious target than set by previous Governments.

Using a current - law baseline measure, the state budget gap for fiscal 2018 - 19 alone was last projected by DOB at $ 4 billion, a figure the governor himself began citing recently (without further explanation) in his recent warnings about the implications of federal health care spending cuts.

The measure would then have to be voted on in the House - where Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R - Virginia, has insisted any federal funding to deal with the recent spate of natural disasters be offset with cuts elsewhere in the federal budget.

Senator Daniel Squadron, who sponsors the Senate bill to close the LLC Loophole, criticized the Senate Majority's removal of a measure from the budget resolution in a statement referencing the recent firing of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who has famously crusaded against corrupt Albany lawmakers, including the former leaders of both legislative houses.

Section 481 has put Ireland on the map and the enhancements of this measure in the recent Budget are welcomed.

He and his council of mayors will find it hard to influence the budget, the curriculum, or how the district spends nearly $ 20 billion in new construction money that has been raised through recent bond measures.

Beyond education, Mr. Cuomo, who is up for re-election in November, has focused much of his attention in recent months on what he has called the state's unacceptably high taxes, and the budget includes tax measures designed to please a variety of constituencies.

Bamberger and others plan to seek about $ 500,000 in the coming legislative session's supplemental budget as a stop - gap measure, but also plan to seek more funding in the 2017 - 18 budget than the $ 23.6 million provided in the most recent budget.

Governments often slip little - noticed and seemingly unrelated items into their spending plans, but just a single line in the recent provincial budget measures bill is causing a split within Ontario's medical community.

Following the review, the recent budget announced the measures allowing Trading Standards Officers to enforce copyright offences from 6 April 2007.

The Quebec Federation of Real Estate Boards (QFREB) says it welcomes the tax provisions announced by provincial Minister of Finance Carlos Leitão in regard to housing in the recent budget, but «would have preferred seeing more tangible measures to promote home ownership.»