Sentences with phrase «tax policy leaders»

State tax policy leaders have said sales tax on professional services are inevitable because there are simply no other effective tax alternatives.

Blog by Chris Sanger, Global Tax Policy Leader, Ernst & Young LLP and a member of the Management of Taxes Committee of the Chartered Institute of Taxation

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On Monday, two powerful conservative leaders in the House declared the blueprint unacceptable because it relies on giving people refundable tax credits to purchase insurance — a policy mechanism that, in a very rough sense, resembles Obamacare's subsidies to buy mandated health coverage (and is therefore being slammed by conservatives as just another entitlement program).

Republican leaders have significant differences on what the party's policy agenda will entail for 2018 after securing a major legislative victory in overhauling the federal tax code with a law that included a blow to the Affordable Care Act.

World leaders are preparing to confront the Republican tax bill, anticipating that some of its policy adjustments could harm their economies.

Interest from North American pension funds could help drive continued strength in the gold sector, although tax competitiveness and policy stability will be important, according to industry leaders.

The Conservatives wrote the policies currently in place, and NDP leader Thomas Mulcair's energy plan includes a cap - and - trade component and more tax breaks for clean energy.

Trump plans to to further outline his economic and tax policies in a speech in Detroit on Monday, following a bruising week in which he publicly sparred with the Muslim family of a fallen U.S. soldier and initially refused to endorse leaders of the Republican Party in their re-election bids.

Layton was responding to criticism from Jack Mintz — the economist oft - quoted by Conservative Leader Stephen Harper as justification for his tax policies — that the cap - and - trade system the NDP proposed to cover the cost of $ 3.5 billion worth of green initiatives in the first year would raise gasoline prices by 10 cents per litre.

Five years of failed austerity policies in Greece and a total breakdown in trust between the leftwing Syriza alliance and the political leaders of its creditors climaxed in a national vote in which Greeks said no to the spending cuts and tax increases demanded by its lenders...

Industrial and political leaders throughout the world have been so anti-labor that there is little thought of raising domestic living standards via higher wage levels and a tax shift off labor and industry back onto property where progressive tax policies used to be based.

Which means 2017 just becomes a year of un-offset tax cuts, and it becomes a very expensive year as a result,» said Rohit Kumar, head of the tax policy practice at PwC and a former aide to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Chief Executive Officer Asim Ghosh has a stern warning for Canadian political leaders considering changes to climate policy: don't go it alone with a carbon tax.

Presidents and Supreme Court Justices, like Kings and Emperors, want to be obeyed; they want the people, without resistance, to pay their taxes and obey their laws and fight their wars, even where those people supported a different leader or disagree with a particular policy.

Oh, and don't tell me how the «leaders» of the values voters objected to those tax and spending policies and that war.

Media Statement 22 June, 2016 Soft drink tax an ineffective solution to obesity in Australia Responding to the announcement from the Australian Greens leader Richard Di Natale regarding a policy proposal for the introduction of a tax on soft drinks, Australian Beverages Council CEO, Geoff Parker said; «We are disappointed by the extremely simplistic approach -LSB-...]

Responding to the announcement from the Australian Greens leader Richard Di Natale regarding a policy proposal for the introduction of a tax on soft drinks, Australian Beverages Council CEO, Geoff Parker said;

He lived through 12 years as the loyal opposition to GOP Gov. George Pataki and Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno, foiled a coup attempt by former Assemblyman Mike Bragman in 2000, weathered Gov. Eliot «the steamroller» Spitzer and now has managed to get along with hard - charging Gov. Andrew Cuomo, largely by giving him pretty much everything he wants from a policy perspective (even things the Dems were never expected to go along with, like Tier VI and the property tax cap).

Cuomo, much to the chagrin of other Democratic leaders, including de Blasio, has worked for years to keep the Senate in GOP hands in order to prevent the high - tax and anti-business, left - wing, «progressive» policies of the Democrats who control the Assembly from dominating the state.

Policy agendas for important issues like the 421a tax abatement and New York City rent laws are being set by publicly elected leaders who have become dependent on the real estate industry's onslaught of millions of dollars in campaign contributions.

One woman congratulated her leader for having committed to repealing the «bedroom tax» - and then said she had another 49 housing policies he wanted Labour to commit to.

The shadow Chancellor has staked out his own position on university funding and income tax before eventually coming into line behind his leader's policies for a graduate tax and to make the 50p tax rate permanent.

President Trump, escorted by Sen. John Barrasso, R - Wyo., chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, left, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R - Ky., right, arrives at the Capitol to meet with GOP lawmakers about passing the GOP tax bill.

The New York State Assembly and Senate have released budget positions that focus on taxes and spending policies, but very little on ethics reform, even though both former leaders of the legislature face prison sentences over corruption convictions.

«Leader Kolb has done a great job on behalf of the Assembly Republican Conference, putting forth impactful policy proposals like the 2 percent tax cap that even Democrats later adopted, and we're glad he has formally entered the race,» Cox said in a statement.

Labour was engulfed by questions on tax and spending plus the Corbyn issue when the leader os demonstrably less popular than the party's policies.

Since then, Jim Murphy, Labour's new Scottish leader, has fought pugnaciously to revive the party's fortunes, with bold new policies (such as promising to hire 1,000 more nurses from the proceeds of the UK - wide Mansion tax, which very few Scots will pay).

As a leader of the Bourbon Democrats, he opposed imperialism, taxes, subsidies and inflationary policies, but as a reformer he also worked against corruption, patronage, and bossism.

«We're attempting to come up with ways to negate and blunt the harsh and unfair Republican tax policy,» Kevin de Leon, the Democratic leader of the California Senate, told CNBC.

The yacht exemption, along with a sales tax break for those who own private airplanes, was quickly pounced on by liberal watchdog groups like the Fiscal Policy Institute and Senate Democrats, including Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins.

«I am confident that Brian Kolb is the leader our state needs to fight the tax and spend policies that have crippled and plagued the Empire State,» Castorina said.

The Lib Dem leader was speaking at the launch of Reducing the Burden: Policies for tax reform, the party's revenue neutral tax plan.

They have already dropped their policy to increase the overall tax burden, and a new leader would almost certainly have their own views about the way they want the party to develop.

Dramas from elections past - like the way Michael Foot was nearly sacked as Leader half way through the 1983 campaign, like Kinnock and Hattersley endlessly contradicting each other over Labour's tax plans in 1987, like Kinnock «s «take to the hills» defence policy against a potential Soviet invasion, like the tax bombshell, like Maggie Thatcher's «I want the doctor I want, on the day I want» rant in 1987, like John Major unleashing the soap box in 1992, like Neil Hamilton and Martin Bell slugging it out on Knutsford Heath in 1997, like the Prescott punch of 2001 - seem more vivid than the more measured and choreographed procession of 2010.

House Republican Leader Themis Klarides of Derby said, «The deficit was expected because the state's budget policies over the years have been built on false assumptions, that increasing taxes will be sufficient to meet spending levels.

Senate Democratic Conference Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins speaks with lawmakers and community groups urging New York Gov. Cuomo and the State Senate majority to join the State Assembly in supporting fair - share tax policies.

An economics expert, who has been tipped as a future party leader, the 41 - year - old is given to making detailed, forensic speeches on tax and finance policies.

The Telegraph reports that the Tory leadership has been discussing an «elegant retreat» from its policy of matching Labour on spending: «The Tory leader, under mounting internal pressure to stretch his party's lead over Labour, has conceded that it could be impossible to deliver tax cuts if he sticks to Gordon Brown's commitments.»

[41] The BBC reported that he had made several «gaffes» in his role as Shadow Chancellor and «in an interview he appeared not to know the rate of National Insurance paid by employers, and he was also reported to have clashed with his party leader over the policy of introducing a graduate tax to replace university tuition fees.

So goes budgeting in Albany, where leaders often declare a targeted policy change or tax cut, then wait to see how the ideas can be implemented within actual legislation.

Washington — Business leaders should push to raise local taxes to pay for early - childhood and other education efforts if money can not be found in other public programs, Paul H. O'Neill, chairman of the President's Education Policy Advisory Committee, told a group of business leaders here last week.

As policymakers begin work on a major overhaul to the federal tax code, which could include eliminating or changing the deduction, and amid widespread concern about rising student debt levels, leaders should bear in mind that altering the provision would have implications for higher education and tax policy across levels of government.

With its editorial, The Case for a Carbon Tax, the New York Times joins the growing community of opinion leaders, policy experts and, yes, elected officials who not only recognize the power of carbon taxes to quickly and equitably reduce emissions but also sense the emergence of a political critical mass that can enact fees into law.

It also sends three monthly policy newspapers — Budget & Tax News, Environment & Climate News, and School Reform News — to every national and state elected official in the United States, as well as thousands of civic and business leaders.

(What Canete doesn't mention, of course, is that — as in the United States — the «public pressure» he credits with winning the support of EU leaders for the destructive climate policies, has been provided by phony «grassroots» NGOs lavishly funded by governments, Wall Street billionaires, and the huge tax - exempt foundations).

In addition to working for the Niskanen Center, Bookbinder also served as a senior policy advisor at the prestigious Climate Leadership Council (CLC), an international policy organization that brings together corporations, thought leaders, and environmentalists to promote a carbon tax and dividends plan as the most effective solution to combat climate change.

And national environmental policy leaders like Daniel Esty think all that's needed to move the country towards a green economy is a carbon tax.

Here's what is required (leaving aside Theresa May's electorally hamstrung inability to deliver much of it): The entire cabinet and every business leader the government's black book can muster, on stage for the launch of the new strategy; an explicit declaration that this, full decarbonization of the economy, is the post-Brexit economic strategy; clear and attractive retail policies, such as a diesel scrappage scheme, tax breaks for green investment, new apprenticeships, a green home building program; an open invitation to all opposition party leaders to share a platform to support the plan with a declaration that while they may not agree on every component they fully endorse the over-arching goal; a willingness to shame those party leaders who play party politics and refuse to turn up; a fortnight - long program where each day sees a new cabinet member explain how the plan will transform parts of the economy; a Royal Commission on the flaws of GDP as an economic measure and the viability of alternative quality of life metrics; and, yes, a brave assertion that carbon intensive industries will have to transform or be scaled back, backed by a decarbonization adaptation fund to help affected communities respond to this global trend.

Even as wildfires and hurricanes ransack the coasts, and record - breaking temperatures stack up, there's still little appetite among the party's leaders to address climate change through tax policy.

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