Sentences with phrase «taxpayers out of paying»

At the last election our manifesto commitment on tax was to take the poorest taxpayers out of paying tax altogether, so that nobody would pay income tax on earnings below # 10,000.

At the last election our manifesto commitment on tax was to take the poorest taxpayers out of paying tax altogether, so that nobody...

Not exact matches

While not all of the costs are necessarily borne by taxpayers — i.e., your employer might pay a share of your health insurance premiums — many out - of - pocket expenses count toward the deduction (more on that below).

The Israeli government also plays up the rockets to milk U.S. taxpayers out of our hard - earned money — who do you think paid for the Iron Dome?

In turn, (via its bail - out of AIG), the taxpayer is paying for this «God's work».

Taxpayers who pay federal taxes on Social Security can subtract the taxed benefits out of their taxable income on their Maryland tax return.

In May, the company paid $ 89 million to settle claims brought by the Department of Justice that it had bilked taxpayers out of mortgage insurance through fraudulent foreclosures.

They make massive bonuses underwriting all of the nuclear waste and then pay themselves even bigger bonuses when the debt blows up and the Taxpayers bail them out.

so you have a bunch of fake Christians with a non profit / no tax paying cathedral going bankrupt, and another bunch of pagan laced above the law non tax paying ped protecting catholics buying a cathedral (notice i did nt say Christian), from a bailed out by taxpayers bank....

Another issue is that these people are paid out of taxes — why should taxpayers cover the cost of their choice to do something unrelated to their job; it's only government business because they're encroaching on their employer's time.

Soon after the Civil Eats piece came out, four Nutrition Services employees devoted what must have been considerable time and effort (not to mention the taxpayer dollars that directly pay their salaries) to write a scholarly article for the Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk entitled «Sugar In School Breakfasts: A School District» s Perspective.»

Parents make the critically necessary sacrifice without which society would collapse like Jeb Bush's presidential campaign: We shell out vast sums of money on everything from diapers to chess camp to prepare the next generation of taxpayers, who will be funding the retirement of people like the childless / childish Meghann Foye, whose pay - me - even - if - I - didn't - do - anything attitude says not «imaginative social thinker,» but «squeegee man.»

Costs for the state's air pollution control system, which under federal law must be paid for by polluting industries, keep sinking under a rising tide of red ink that taxpayers keep bailing out.

The Professor's out - of - state — much less out - of - district — fundraising doesn't begin or end with California: the ardent Iranian Nuclear Deal and taxpayer - paid campaign proponent has also raised more money out of New England than out of New York.

Most of the money, $ 103,080, came from the taxpayer - funded Assembly — and Lopez was forced to pay the remaining $ 32,000 out of his own pocket.

And while doing these big, country - changing things, we are doing everything possible to help people who are struggling with the cost of living: helping to freeze council tax for three years in a row; freezing fuel duty; cutting the income tax bills of 24 million taxpayers; taking two million of the lowest paid out of tax altogether.

Masonry Services Inc. and its owners James Herrera and Jaime Herrera — who have both donated to Diaz Jr. — agreed to pay $ 600,000 in back wages and costs after Attorney General Eric Schneiderman investigated them for cheating workers out of the same sum on a taxpayer - funded affordable housing project for seniors in Brooklyn.

Durathon's failure raises two questions: First, how much, if anything, will taxpayers recoup out of $ 17.5 million paid to GEMx by ESD and Metroplex?

In all, the Assembly projects there are 66,134 taxpayers who will pay the higher rates; they include residents and out - of - state residents who earn income in New York.

State taxpayers were stiffed out of at least $ 87,000 when Rep. Charles Rangel stopped paying for the district office he rents in Harlem's Adam Clayton Powell Jr..

But the decision means the public has no access to clear information about how much May's various legal battles are costing the taxpayer, not just in terms of legal fees but also including compensation paid out after unsuccessful cases.

He told the audience: «You have no idea about the excuses people come up with to keep data out of your hands, even when you as taxpayers have paid for it.

Meanwhile, 40 percent of taxpayers don't pay any income tax, while almost all of them see a payroll tax come out of their paychecks.

The only practical thing to do is spread some of the payment out over time and pay the loan off as quickly as possible, we have done that and saved the taxpayer's nearly a million dollars.»

The mediation money was on top of the $ 103,080 in taxpayer funds the Assembly paid out to quietly settle claims brought by two women who once worked on the Brooklyn Democrat's staff.

The protesters also blasted Puzder for his opposition to the minimum wage, pointing out that in 2013, researchers at the University of California at Berkeley found that CEOs like Puzder cost taxpayers $ 7.3 billion per year in public assistance by holding down pay for their employees.

It was reported in 2014 that only Two million Ghanaians paid tax out of eligible six Million taxpayers.

It was the first time Conway had spoken out since February, when he apologised «without qualification» after being ordered to return # 3,757 of taxpayers» money paid to his elder son, Henry.

But he also criticized the state's creation of SAM, which allows state leaders to dole out money without ample transparency that state taxpayers pay back, with interest.

«The plan that the mayor has proposed most recently is to spend the taxpayers» money to pay for a year's rent for for homeless individuals who are willing to move out of the city,» she fumed to interviewer John Catsimatidis.

«The idea that taxpayer dollars can't be used for settlements is a real deterrent effect with officials but if right now if they think the government is going to pay if they get sued or if a claim is filed, that's a little different than if its coming out of your own pocket,» Smith said.

They expired last week when lawmakers failed to continue a 2008 recession - era federal law providing nearly a year of benefits, paid for by U.S. taxpayers, that kicked in when state jobless benefits ran out.

Astorino call Cuomo «part of the embarrassment» in Albany, citing «the fact that he has put his arms around Shelly Silver, and used taxpayer dollars to cover up sex crimes, the fact that we have a bridge that is under construction and he won't reveal because I don't think he's figured it out, how to pay for this bridge, the Tappan Zee.»

Because of a parliamentary procedure that allows the Democratic majority to gavel into session and immediately gavel out without taking up a single bill, Senator Oppenheimer took a futile, all expenses paid trip to Albany courtesy of taxpayers.

The Legislature feels pressure to act, given that the NBA has said it may relocate the team if a new arena isn't built, but some Republicans have spoken out against having taxpayers pay for any part of it.

Tens of millions of pounds of taxpayers» money is being paid out to under - performing firms delivering the government's work programme, Whitehall's spending watchdog has warned.

«Some of the money going to go to the Water Board, some of it's going to go to the general fund, but, in the meantime, those funds have already been paid out so we're looking to reimburse the taxpayers for the money we spent.»

It appears that a least two (Hoehmann and Borelli) and sometimes a third Town Board member (Hausner) understand that the taxpayers have been milked enough to the extent that all of them will be out of office when they come up for re-election if capital and operating expenses are not cut in the coming years to pay for the Town's debit and its continuing structural deficit.

In a Laconia Daily Sun editorial supporting Hassan, former New Hampshire Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mark Fernald noted that New Hampshire residents consume electricity from out of state, meaning that state taxpayers would still have to pay for the program via carbon fees on utilities bills if it left the program.

Such differences result in a variations in plugging costs, and it will be interesting to find out what this will mean in terms of the final bill the Norwegian taxpayer has to pay,» he says.

But hey... we're only paying these out - of - state consultants a million dollars of our taxpayer money so maybe we deserve the «B» team.

A couple of weeks ago, Edunomics Lab, a university - based research center that focuses on «exploring and modeling complex education finance decisions,» released a report in which it claims to have figured out a way to pay some teachers more without taking money away from other areas or sticking it to the taxpayer.

Lots of people took much better photos than mine, but I just wanted to point out that we took over the streets outside the Federal Building, the State of Illinois Building, and City Hall, the key landmarks of government, paid for by us taxpayers and filled with people whom we vote into and can vote out of office.

They are the biggest funder to any party and as Brill reminds us it is coming out of taxpayer funds to pay teachers.

post entitled, NEWS FLASH: Pryor's No Bid contract costs taxpayers another $ 100,000 plus, CTNewsjunkie provides the details about the Malloy administration's decision to pay an out - of - state consulting education reform company another $ 100,000 despite the fact that the company did not have a written contract extension.

Last year, the taxpayers of Indiana paid out $ 146.1 million to voucher schools, with most of it going to families who would have sent their children to private school anyway.

So called «free transport» comes out of the wages of hard - working taxpayers, (whether centrally or locally funded) who pay entirely for the upkeep of their children and do not rely on any selective handouts.

In addition to collecting the bulk of the $ 110 million in Connecticut taxpayer funds paid to charter schools, Achievement First, Inc. earned its infamy from suspending record numbers of kindergarteners in an apparent attempt to push out children who don't fit the company's limited definition of appropriate students.

As most of Connecticut's local property taxpayers are being asked to pay more to preserve their local schools, and Connecticut's taxpayers are being asked to pay more to invest in Connecticut's most troubled schools, leave it to Mayor Finch and the majority Democrats in Bridgeport to sneak in an end of the year cut to their own schools... even after the state and its taxpayer's bailed them out of their school budget deficit last year.

Our data analysis shows that private insurance foots the bill for almost 40 % of all medical care in the United States right now; Medicare (aka «the taxpayers») pays about 25 %, and you pay about 16 % out of pocket for your own care.