Sentences with phrase «seen as taxpayer»

Yet these incentives may be seen as taxpayer - funded «handouts» to industry, threatening political support.

You're just, the government is not getting as much of their money as they put in but I don't see it as taxpayer money at all,» he said.

Not exact matches

Or is it actually about making up revenue lost to an eroding tax base as taxpayers seek legal ways to avoid what they see as punitive tax rates?

Today, as global markets nervously watch to see how much it will cost to save European banks from their willingness to make risky loans, critics around the world are calling for Hammurabi - style reforms to make sure financial institutions, not taxpayers, pay for future bad bets.

Many married couples will see a substantial reduction, as will wealthy taxpayers, with the top rate dropping from 39.6 % to 33 %.

The fiscal cliff, off which U.S. taxpayers may have to leap on Jan. 1, 2013, if the Bush tax cuts expire, is seen as being the inevitable consequence of Washington lawmakers» infighting unless President Obama and Congress honestly confront this deadline in an election year.

We're seeing a lot of proposals in Congress that aren't accompanied by a lot of thought or analysis of what impact a deep cut in travel budgets could have,» such as a reduction in services for taxpayers and for veterans, and fewer job - related conferences.

Mr. Flaherty would be required to implement new stimulus measures, which in the end would cost Canadian taxpayers, as we saw with the recent temporary stimulus program.

A small number of taxpayers will see changes to their 2017 taxes as a result.

Check Your Withholding: The government estimates that most taxpayers will see a drop in their tax bill when 2019 rolls around, but because the new law has many twists and turns (especially for those who live in high property and income tax states), your best bet is to assume that your tax liability will be at least the same as this year.

With key tweaks to the tax reform plan on the deductions side, as many as 25.5 % of taxpayers could see their taxes increase from current levels under the currently tabled tax reform plan.

While relinquishing the chair role could be seen as a demotion caused by conflict with his party's leadership, it likely means that Fildebrandt, a former director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation and aggressive critic of the NDP, can now play a more active and vocal role on the committee.

That fateful summer forever changed investors» perception of banks and while before they were seen as institutions able to facilitate liquidity for businesses and individuals, now they were seen as greedy vultures ready to use taxpayer moneys in order to be rescued.

Opinion: Politicians have come to see taxpayers as sheep to be shorn, writes Mark Milke.

Losing a case of this kind in the courts should not be seen as tax avoidance by the taxpayer or as enabling avoidance by their advisers.»

Plus, Bronx voters have seen their share of elected officials charged with bilking the taxpayers in corruption scandals (former Sen. Guy Velella comes to mind, as does NYC Councilman Larry Seabrook and ex-Sen.

«We have led the way on controlling state spending, capping local property taxes, and soon, millions of middle class taxpayers will get to keep more of their income to invest and spend as they see fit.

The cost of the Crossrail project was largely seen as its most controversial aspect and fears that substantial government funding would place significant pressures on the transport budget led former transport secretary Alistair Darling to announce that the Crossrail project would not be funded entirely by the national taxpayer.

As long as the borderlines between different tax statuses can be fuzzy and open to interpretation, we are likely to continue to see confusion and inconsistency among taxpayers and their employers, and exploitation of workers in too weak an economic position to resist entering into work arrangements that HMRC might be expected to challenge.&raquAs long as the borderlines between different tax statuses can be fuzzy and open to interpretation, we are likely to continue to see confusion and inconsistency among taxpayers and their employers, and exploitation of workers in too weak an economic position to resist entering into work arrangements that HMRC might be expected to challenge.&raquas the borderlines between different tax statuses can be fuzzy and open to interpretation, we are likely to continue to see confusion and inconsistency among taxpayers and their employers, and exploitation of workers in too weak an economic position to resist entering into work arrangements that HMRC might be expected to challenge.»

The county legislature's Democratic Minority Leader Cindy Kaleh says the budget «perpetuates the illusion that taxes are flat...» She says county taxpayers continue to see their tax bills «creep higher as the county collects more revenue and fees...»

«Taxpayers never had an opportunity to so much as see where this money is going, let alone weigh in on it, before lawmakers voted to send $ 56 million out the door,» said Empire Center Executive Director Tim Hoefer, executive director of the Empire Center.

Taxpayers must have seen some benefits for funding a foreigner's education, as those are the same funds that could have been used to improve many other things within the country itself (better education, health, etc).

«The tests for these changes at RBS are whether they see the taxpayer ultimately get its money back and whether they actually boost business lending and radically transform this bank to put an end to business as usual,» shadow chancellor Ed Balls said.

«But the battle to prevent the privatization of schools continues, and we will fight to see that charter schools — as recipients of taxpayer funds — are compelled to admit and keep all students.»

I will also be distributing a survey after the budget is released to collect input from taxpayers and see what is most important to you as we finalize the budget.

As a taxpayer, regarding any question about the proper use of taxpayer dollars, I would rather see U.S. railroads and bridges repaired and reservoirs cleansed than see U.S. funds wasted on murderous weaponry and dubious schemes by an artificial entity which would prolong endless conflict and cost millions of lives.

«Someone from the administration had questioned some of the food bills and so we're going to post all of the receipts on - line as we do with all of our expenses on our Taxpayers Check Book and see why the administration did have some concerns, pertaining to some of the expenses, especially pertaining to food purchases, a lot of the purchases which happened after the storm had taken place,» said Mychajliw.

Tom DiNapoli: «Now that the economy has certainly been in a recovery mode, it's certainly not as strong as we'd like it to be in many parts of the state, I think now is a good time for us to look not only at this program, but at the various economic development dollars that we've spent over the past few years to see what kind of return we've been getting on those taxpayer dollar investments.

I'm proud that our Governor sees the state as «One New York» and shares a vision with the Independent Democratic Conference to save our taxpayers from irresponsible tax policy in Washington, to pass the DREAM Act to help students achieve their full potentials, to protect our unions and collective bargaining and to fund sorely needed repairs to the MTA without delay.

As lawmakers discussed a similar elimination plan in 2013, the administration released figures that projected taxpayers would see an average bill increase of $ 4,500 per taxpayer.

County lawmakers also urged passage of any of several bills, including a Senate bill, S. 1814, from Sen. Michael Ranzenhofer, R - Amherst, that would impose a Medicaid residency requirement, as the county has, in recent years, seen a significant number of eligible applicants for taxpayer - funded medical care from outside the county — and even outside the state.

Conners presented the county's fiscal figures for 2017 to legislators prior to their regular meeting on Monday, highlighting some of the successes the county saw as well as looking to future items lawmakers could pursue to help save taxpayers money.

As a result, taxpayers will see a negligible increase, some none at all, in their tax bill.

Mychajliw, meanwhile, believes his work and accomplishment as an opposing - party watchdog to Democratic County Executive Mark Poloncarz, will win over voters who see him as a champion for taxpayers.

«And I think it will be self - evident that anybody who's interested in really trying to help solve the energy problem will see continuing this hub as a good investment by the taxpayers,» he said.

«As a taxpayer, and an environmentalist who has focused on community revitalization for 25 years, this is how I want to see my tax dollars utilized,» she said.

Despite that, the policy faces critics in Brazil, who see such protection as an additional burden to taxpayers that only postpones inevitable integration.

9/11 made America respect its police officers, through all their perceived selfless actions, and the notion of laughing at — and even with — law enforcement officers goofing around on taxpayers dollars was seen as not only dishonest but disrespectful.

Similarly, as the current recession deepens, we see hints of growing taxpayer resistance to the rising cost of education.

If the state is successful in its current court appeal and the ESA program moves forward, I would love to see the kind of robust Yelp - like parent evaluations Ladner envisions — so long as they're paired with strong oversight representing the public interest of all the taxpayers whose kids aren't attending ESA - financed schools.

The goal of this letter, though, was to give those in Santa Fe, but also others throughout the state of New Mexico, not only a more comprehensive and accurate assessment of my testimony, but more a note about how the taxpayers of New Mexico have a right to know much, much more about their state's teacher evaluation model, as well as the model's output (i.e., to see how the model is actually functioning as claimed).

However, Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor has put Connecticut's public school superintendents in an untenable position and now they must choose whether they see their job as carrying out orders from above or serving as the voice and chief advocate for the students, parents, teachers, staff and taxpayers that are part of their school district.

I don't see the need for M - F 8:30 - 5:3 preschool as they have in Stamford... or at least the need for taxpayers to fund that.

The crisis was the subject of heated parliamentary debate last week, with Teresa May's government struggling on multiple fronts to defend the idea of public services contracting, launch a convincing investigation of what happened, take credible steps to deal with what is widely seen as compensation - gouging by the company's directors, the perception of sweetheart contracts extended to a struggling company, continuing doubtsabout official and company conflicts of interest, and about the impact of still - undetermined huge taxpayer losses — not least over underfunded pensions that have now come onto its books.

Some see the refusal to participate in SBAC testing as an act of courage and conviction; they see it as willful push - back against flawed education reform policies that since the passage of NCLB have failed to improve education in America's public schools and yet continue to be promoted by special interests who seek to profit at student, parent, and taxpayer expense.

In the past two and a half years, Connecticut taxpayers have we seen tens of millions of dollars in public funds diverted to feed the monster known as the emerging education reform industry.

For example, as you can see from the table below, a single taxpayer with taxable income of $ 8,701 would be in the 15 % tax bracket.

On a local level, I'm appalled as a taxpayer that I have to see my tax dollars go to this cause (not directly, but in the police, clean up costs, ect).

Undoubtedly, there are plenty of willing victims of over-withholding, including taxpayers who see it as a convenient means of forced savings.

And Revenue Canada doesn't have much sympathy for taxpayers like that, because they just see the situation as, «You were trying to avoid tax.»