Sentences with phrase «tax policy mandated»

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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).

After all, the blueprint contains a host of policies long sought by conservatives, including nixing Obamacare's Medicaid expansion, an expansion of health savings accounts that individuals can contribute to, rolling back the health law's various mandates and taxes, and dismantling the essential health benefits package that insurers had to provide under Obamacare.

Ms Loane said her mandate would include establishing a platform for Australia to develop a retirement outcomes policy, ensuring financial services had a «voice of influence» in the debate on tax and federation white papers, and building the right regulatory architecture so Australia could develop a significant presence in Asia.

She called for an education tax credit as well as a law mandating affirmative - consent sexual assault policies at private colleges in a morning speech to delegates gathered at the downtown Hilton.

The Erie County Industrial Development Agency has approved a mandate requiring any company that receives tax breaks or incentives must pay female employees equal rates as their male counterparts, if both are doing the same job or holding the same position.While the 15 ECIDA directors who were at the meeting support the pay equity policy, questions were raised about how it may be enforced.

But a program of tax - free micro-zones on and near college campuses is nowhere near potent enough to overcome New York's other competitive disadvantages, which the governor has compounded with policies including opposition to natural gas pipelines, a costly renewable energy mandate, and the nation's highest minimum wage.

«It's that 70 percent of your property tax is school tax, which is directly related to New York state's policies, and 70 percent of the Dutchess County property tax is dictated by Albany mandate.»

The 26 - minute speech also attacked Gov. Andrew Cuomo's economic development policies, state mandates and Destiny USA's renewed request for tax breaks.

«Our party has always been a broad church, and despite my principled differences with Jeremy over many issues of defence, foreign policy and national security, I agreed to serve on his front bench because of the mandate he was given, his assurances that honesty and difference were welcomed, and due to the many areas we agreed wholeheartedly on such as fighting the vicious Tory trade union bill - which I was proud to lead our work on - cuts to tax credits and tackling climate change.

The Utah Film Commission, which provides networking and tax incentives to an industry that spent $ 66 million in the state in the last fiscal year, recently instituted a policy that mandates any film production using the commission's resources must have a workplace - harassment policy in place.

Not only is the scholarship tax credit policy consistent with Article IX, Section 1 of the state constitution, it has been proven to advance that constitutional mandate.

For example, you have to demonstrate that financial ability to pay property taxes and upkeep and to maintain a homeowner's insurance policy while also attending a mandated third - party credit counseling session.

The reason a listening tour is the next step, and not a pre-packaged batch of legislation or other steps, is to build on the common ground across a wide range of Americans on energy thrift, innovation and fair play (meaning policies that distort the playing field, with mandated corn ethanol production and tax breaks for fossil fuel companies prime examples).

The clean energy policies that Fisher targeted for repeal in his 2015 study for IER provide some clues about the possible identity of the «mandates and tax and subsidy policies» to which Perry made vague reference in his memo.

«ExxonMobil believes a revenue - neutral carbon tax would be a more effective policy option than cap - and - trade schemes, regulations, mandates, or standards.

«We believe that the risks of climate change warrant action... ExxonMobil believes a revenue - neutral carbon tax would be a more effective policy option than cap - and - trade schemes, regulations, mandates, or standards.

For these reasons, as governments enact policies to address the risks of climate change, we believe that market - based efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions — like a revenue - neutral carbon tax — are more economically efficient policy options than regulations, mandates, or standards.

In that letter, we stated, «Government subsidies, loans, mandates, and tax policies regarding renewables have consistently failed to deliver on their promises of long - term job creation and economic viability.

Someone would do an almost as useful service by beginning to compile a list of the academic papers that call into question the merits of the emission reduction policies now being promoted — the endless list of regulations, subsidies, taxes, product mandates, and government - imposed «information programs» that all seek to alter energy supply and demand decisions.

Rather than mandating stupid policies, the simpler solution is to do what most of the rest of the world does and simply put a tax on gas that makes it expensive.

In a Friday memo, Perry asked his chief of staff to undertake a 60 day inquiry into «the extent to which continued regulatory burdens, as well as mandates and tax and subsidy policies, are responsible for forcing the premature retirement of baseload power plants,» such as those fueled by coal or nuclear energy, among other grid related questions.

Maintain working knowledge of clean energy and climate policy issues and legislation including energy tax credits, renewables mandates, grid modernization and energy storage, and DOE appropriations.

Government targets, mandates, business incentives, and reformed tax and subsidy policies must promote sustainable development in order for the green labor market to take off.

Ontario justice Colin Westman referred to the policy as a tax on «broken souls» in the Toronto Star, and began imposing $ 1 fines to effectively nullify the mandated fees.

Your premiums are now also effected by federal tax subsidies and new mandates that require essential benefit packages to be included on all new policies.

The insurer attributes 60 % of the increase to federal policy changes, including Trump's decision to cut CSR funding, weakened enforcement of the individual mandate and reinstatement of the health insurance tax.

The government has also jumped on the agent bashing bandwagon... first removing self - regulation from the industry, then imposing a 15 per cent foreign buyer tax to attempt to cool down the market, and then mandating 28 new policies to tighten up control of brokerages and their associates.