Sentences with phrase «used against a taxpayer»

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In that case, according to the IRS, rental losses of up to $ 25,000 for single taxpayers and married couples filing jointly (and $ 12,500 for married filing separately) can be used against other types of income.

You can't take taxpayer money and then use that taxpayer money to discriminate against the tax payer who is paying you.

Following Assemblyman Vito Lopez's censure last week for sexually harassing two female staffers, the New York Times reported Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver had «quietly» settled at least one other complaint against the powerful Brooklyn Democrat, using an undetermined amount of taxpayer dollars to do so.

The NYT reported that Silver had used an undisclosed amount of taxpayer cash to settle a claim made against Lopez before these two staffers» complaints were referred to the ethics committee.

Skelos declined to criticize Silver's handling of the situation, although did say he thinks it's inappropriate for taxpayer dollars to be used to settle allegations lodged against sitting lawmakers.

Eliot Spitzer and current executive director of the nonprofit Union Settlement, says prohibiting the use of taxpayer dollars to settle sexual harassment claims brought against government employees, as Cuomo has proposed, is probably illegal and also bad policy.

Malliotakis has voiced opposition to the City's program, calling it an irresponsible use of taxpayer money, and voted against a bill that would have established a state matching program with a similar 6 - 1 match.

But even more outrageous is the idea of taxpayers money being used to campaign against a political party and it evidently not occurring to the Audit Commission that this is not considered an appropriate way to behave in this country.

Many business groups are against the idea, saying it would not be a good use of the taxpayer's money.

«The federal government has come out pretty strongly against using taxpayer funds, too.

Others have spoken out against the Citizens Election Program as it requires using over $ 33 million in taxpayer money to fuel negative attack ads.

«Silver used taxpayer - funded hush money to keep the victims of sexual harassment from rocking the boat in the Assembly and he brushed off serious allegations that his counsel had committed multiple rapes against women who worked there.

Speaking at a fringe event at the Conservative Party conference, Fallon said he was «appalled» at the way human rights law was being used against the British military, with the result that millions of pounds of taxpayers» money were being spent on fighting «fairly spurious cases» rather than on kit and personnel.

A secretive, multi-million dollar taxpayer - funded slush fund used for years to pay off victims of sexual misconduct was tapped to settle a lawsuit against Queens Democratic Rep. Gregory Meeks.

Also on Tuesday, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver admitted an error in judgment for secretly using taxpayer funds to try to settle sexual harassment allegations against Lopez earlier this summer.

Cuomo, who is positioning himself for a potential 2020 presidential run, wants to prohibit taxpayer funds being used to settle harassment allegations against individuals, bar secrecy of such settlements, create a uniform sexual harassment policy for all parts of state and local government and create an anonymous whistleblower tip line for individuals to report misconduct.

The practice of using taxpayer dollars to settle sexual harassment claims lodged against public officials was upheld in 2008 after a taxpayer filed suit in State Supreme Court to challenge a $ 500,000 settlement paid to woman who accused Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's then - counsel, Michael Boxley, of rape.

The first, filed by a city resident and a member of the Hartford City Council, alleged that Coleman improperly used his annual taxpayer - financed update for political purposes and his campaign against Wooden, which is not allowed under state statutes.

To provide staff to all private — meaning mostly religious — schools without a proper review of which facility has a need for this kind of security is an expensive way of going around constitutional prohibitions against using taxpayer funding for religious institutions.»

Rodriguez repeated de Blasio's main argument against ponying up the money — that the MTA should use the money it already gets from the city, taxpayers and commuter fares.

It's examining sexual harassment charges against Assemblyman Vito Lopez, and how some initially secret payments were made, using taxpayer money, to alleged victims.

A trio of corrupt politicians may take the stand against disgraced Councilman Ruben Wills when he goes on trial for allegedly stealing $ 30,000 in taxpayer money and using it on a personal shopping spree, according to new court filings.

Needless to say, when a public education cabal uses a communication system funded by taxpayers to lobby against those same taxpayers while helping create PACs dedicated to electing tax - and - spend educators, any action in opposition becomes like screaming into the wind.

Achievement First — Hartford should not be able to use taxpayer dollars, and certainly shouldn't be able to expand, as long as they appear to have policies in place that serve to discriminate against students and families who speak Spanish or face language barriers or discriminate against students who have special education needs.

«Nevada's voucher program allows private religious schools to use taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate and discriminate against students on the basis of religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, and other grounds,» she added.

A Las Vegas judge on Wednesday ruled Nevada's controversial new school choice bill does not violate a constitutional ban against the use of taxpayer money for religious purposes.

It is why natural - gas extraction — the controversial practice known as fracking — has been virtually free of environmental regulation since 2005, and why government - owned car companies get to use taxpayer money to lobby against stricter fuel - economy standards proposed by the government.

Although animal rights activists have been fighting against animal testing in laboratories for many decades, not everyone realizes that taxpayers» hard - earned money is being used to fund cruel animal tests.

People living and working on floodway land designed and designated as an overflow channel of the river — and for which, U.S. taxpayers paid flow easements — these people fight against using the floodway for its intended purpose.

In the recent First Tier Tribunal decision of Anthony Bayliss v HMRC (TC / 2015 / 06609), the Tribunal not only cleared the taxpayer of fraud, but also of negligence, and criticised the «highly questionable» approach taken by HMRC to the penalties issued against him for his use of a tax avoidance scheme.