Sentences with phrase «than the caps imposed»

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Section 162 (m) of the Code imposes a $ 1.0 million cap on the compensation deduction that a public company may take in respect of compensation paid to our «covered employees» (which includes our Chief Executive Officer and our next three most highly compensated employees other than our Chief Financial Officer), but excludes from the calculation of amounts subject to this limitation any amounts that constitute «qualified performance - based compensation,» or «QPBC,» within the meaning of Section 162 (m) of the Code.

Overly optimistic projections of future oil supply, which are much higher than the latest NEB projections and don't consider the Alberta government's cap on oil sands emissions imposed by its Climate Leadership Plan.

Five Long Island school districts, all in Suffolk, are asking voters to approve an override of their state - imposed property tax caps — more than twice as many as last year, according to the state comptroller's office.

He itemized and deducted $ 14,336 in state income taxes — more than the $ 10,000 cap imposed by the new federal law — and deducted no property taxes.

The governor noted proudly that he was once again proposing a spending increase of less than 2 percent over last year, a self - imposed cap he has made a centerpiece of his fiscal policy throughout his governorship.

Actual increases in tax collections imposed by districts may end up being more or less than 2 percent, depending on local factors such as bond issues to fund school reconstruction or repairs, which are exempt from the cap.

Five Long Island school districts, all in Suffolk, are asking voters to approve an override of their state - imposed property tax caps — more than twice as many as last year.

The revised bill gives states the option to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients and pays states block grants for Medicaid, rather than using a cap system that would be more favorable to New York.

«The Coalition Government's recently announced proposal to impose a cap so that heads can't earn more than the Prime Minister is grossly wide of the mark of what is required.

«Had the Review Body not been constrained by the arbitrary pay cap imposed by the Government, there is no doubt that it would have been recommending a pay uplift higher than 1 % for teachers.

«It's more than double the self - imposed two percent spending cap, it's actually from my perspective very irresponsible.»

In response to a tax on greenhouse - gas emissions imposed by the Norwegian government, each year the company now removes about 1 million tons of CO2 captured as a waste product from the natural gas it recovers and pumps more than 99 percent of it 2,600 feet beneath the seafloor into a porous sandstone formation capped by impervious rock.

A truly strict global system, involving the majority of countries and imposing a tight cap on total emissions, would cut emissions more than the European trading scheme.

Additionally, the rankings dock Louisiana five points for lacking an «escalator» provision that automatically raises the cap on total amount of tax credits available — however, Louisiana does not impose a total credit cap at all, which is even better than having a cap with an escalator.

According to the company's CEO Loucas Marangos, «The industry itself should rethink offered leverage levels rather than wait for regulation to impose caps.»

In short, overcoming all of the problems with creating a cap and trade system rather than imposing a simple tax is simply not worth the effort.

Renewable electricity standards or clean energy standards would accomplish considerably less and would impose much higher costs per ton of emissions reduction than cap - and - trade would.

(The EPA could also impose a stronger cap than that in the House bill.)

No, one of the ostensible virtues of a carbon tax or a cap - and - trade system is that they are «market - based» solutions, which allow governments to address climate change in a flexible way, rather than imposing a top - down solution of picking winners and losers.

(1) extending negligent misrepresentation beyond «business transactions» to product liability, unprecedented in Texas; (2) ignoring multiple US Supreme Court decisions that express and implied preemption operate independently (as discussed here) to dismiss implied preemption with nothing more than a cite to the Medtronic v. Lohr express preemption decision; (3) inventing some sort of state - law tort to second - guess the defendant following one FDA marketing approach (§ 510k clearance) over another (pre-market approval), unprecedented anywhere; (4) holding that the learned intermediary rule does not apply whenever a defendant «compensates» or «incentivizes» physicians to use its products, absent any Texas state or appellate authority; (5) imposing strict liability on an entity not in the product's chain of sale, contrary to Texas statute (§ 82.001 (2)-RRB-; (6) creating a claim for «tortious interference» with the physician - patient relationship, again utterly unprecedented; (7) creating «vicarious» breach of fiduciary duty for engaging doctors to serve as expert witnesses in mass tort litigation also involving their patients, ditto; and (8) construing a consulting agreement with a physician as «commercial bribery» to avoid the Texas cap on punitive damages, jaw - droppingly unprecedented.

According to data from the ethereum blockchain, a total of 2,394 participants contributed 43,170 ether to the project, an amount that was slightly less than a tentative cap of $ 10 million imposed by project creators.