Sentences with phrase «spending measures announced»

While the government is still forecasting a balanced budget, all the elasticity (read: available money) in the current fiscal has now been used up with the new taxation and spending measures announced today.

Not exact matches

It is filled with large spending measures, many of them previously announced, designed to entice voters to elect an unpopular government for another term in June.

Its European creditors decided on Wednesday to suspend the implementation of short - term debt relief measures after the Greek government announced additional spending on pensions - an action that European partners deemed as «unilateral» and disrespecting the efforts agreed under the country's 86 billion euro ($ 89.75 billion) bailout program.

This measure is described in a recent article in Caixin, which describes a meeting held by the CSRC involving the heads of China's 21 largest brokers: «The firms announced in a joint statement that to stabilize the stock market they would spend at least 120 billion yuan combined to buy exchange - traded funds linked to blue - chip stocks listed on the Shenzhen and Shanghai bourses.

Even if all of the spending and tax - reduction measures announced in the 2015 budget were cancelled — and no opposition party has yet gone so far as to promise that — that still would not be enough revenue to prevent a return to deficit.

For example, the spending restraint measures announced in the March 2012 Budget were never reflected in the 2012 - 13 appropriations.

A fiscal package announced in April contained measures equivalent to around 3 per cent of GDP, aimed at providing a significant boost to domestic demand through tax cuts and new spending.

During this period, the Government significantly increased spending, primarily through temporary stimulus measures announced as part of their Economic Action Plan.

Overnight 1,145 Tory members took part in a ConservativeHome poll on the main measures announced by George Osborne in his Comprehensive Spending Review.

It all has the unmistakeable feel of a choreography building up to even more devolutionary measures over spending being announced in the chancellor's Autumn Statement.

Why weren't the living wage and the defence spending pledge in the Tory manifesto, like many of the Budget measures announced by Mr Osborne?

Speaking at Fordham University Law School, Cuomo announced he propose legislation incorporating measures designed to limit independent expenditure campaign spending as well as require the groups to disclose the identity of their owners, directors and executives exerting control.

Turnbull announced new measures and an independent agency to manage and monitor work expenses and adjudicate all claims by the lawmakers, as well as ministers, «to ensure taxpayer funds are properly spent.»

Cuomo went on to attribute the state's $ 10 billion deficit to chronic overspending by the Legislature and announced a number of fiscal austerity measures, including a salary freeze on public workers and drastically cutting Medicaid spending.

He said the extra money raised by the initiative, which was announced alongside a package of other green measures, would be spent on «priorities such as public transport and the environment».

Mervyn King has intimated that the government may have to engage in more «emergency measures» to lubricate the economy, on the day that the comprehensive spending review is announced.

At the last election the Lib Dems said they could raise large sums by closing tax loopholes and today Alexander announced that the government would spend an extra # 900m on anti-evasion and anti-avoidance measures.

Cuts in corporation tax, higher infrastructure spending and delay to fuel duty rise among measures announced by chancellor

Mr Osborne said measures he had previously announced meant he did not have to bring in further tax rises or spending cuts.

The coalition is set to tighten public finances by # 113bn by 2014/15, with # 30bn from tax measures, # 11bn from welfare reforms announced in the budget, # 10bn from lower debt interest costs and # 61bn in cuts to departmental spending.

First, the measures have been announced but not yet implemented; second, we do not yet know which specific public services will feel the pain of spending cuts; third, we don't yet know whether the economy will keep growing or slip back into recession.

Bolden announced the new policy, which he called a temporary measure pending an outside review of NASA security policies, at a 20 March hearing before a U.S. House of Representatives spending panel that oversees NASA's budget.

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg is also expected to announce four other measures concerning educational policy, including the protection of spending per - pupil, a guarantee ensuring all teachers in state - funded schools will be qualified by September 2016, the establishing of a Royal College of Teachers and a National Leadership Institute to promote high quality leadership in schools in deprived areas.

Announcing the measures, Clegg is expected to highlight his party's plans to protect education spending for those aged between two and 19 in real terms until 2017 - 18, from which point the Lib Dems would increase spending in line with economic growth.

The report draws on data from 2005 to 2012 to rate charter schools across multiple measures of financial health and academic performance, including state test scores and classroom spending, said the press release announcing the findings.

CourseSmart, the world's largest provider of digital course materials, has announced a pilot test of CourseSmart Analytics, a program that will evaluate how students use specific textbooks, measuring page views, total time spent reading, as well as notes and highlights made.

He says existing measures announced in the government's spring budget, such as tax - bracket changes and infrastructure spending, have begun to help the economy.

1530: China's cabinet has announced it will spend $ 372 billion on energy conservation projects and anti-pollution measures over the next three and a half years.

In preparation for Mr. Zuckerberg's testimony, his first such appearance, Facebook has spent the last couple of weeks trying to transform its public image from a defiant, secretive behemoth into a contrite paragon of openness, announcing a string of new privacy and anti-abuse measures and making company executives available for numerous interviews.