Sentences with phrase «which most taxpayers»

To quantify the extent to which most taxpayers would be willing to underwrite future costs of the expansion, the researchers conducted a national online study in 2012 that asked respondents to respond yes or no to a dollar value — ranging from $ 4 to $ 80 a year — that they would be willing to pay to support management of the expanded sanctuary.

Not exact matches

There was the 0 percent rate for those in the lowest income tax brackets, and a 20 percent rate for everyone else, which was lowered to 15 percent in 2003 before being made permanent for most middle - income taxpayers in 2012.

Equity Income Funds typically distribute most of their income in the form of Qualified Dividends, which for many taxpayers are taxed relatively lightly, allowing most Equity Income Funds and ETFs to be considered High Tax Efficiency investments when compared with other investment options that generate taxable income.

Most of these deals go through a privatized economic development agency called JobsOhio, which doesn't require as much transparency as a public agency about what taxpayers are getting for their money.

In the event of a major spill, taxpayers would likely be responsible for shouldering most of the cleanup cost, which could easily surpass $ 10 billion, according to the advocacy group CRED.

Some of the most frequently asked tax questions center on being a parent, owning a home, getting married and the like, according to research by TurboTax Live, which connects taxpayers online to certified public accountants and enrolled agents to address questions.

They suggested three ways in which RFRA might conceivably be interpreted (misinterpreted, really) to create bad consequences: (1) to give a church's opponents legal «standing» (a technical term meaning the right to sue) to challenge the church's tax - exempt status; (2) to allow taxpayers to claim their free exercise rights would be violated if a religiously affiliated organization receives government assistance under a secular program; and, most importantly, (3) to allow pro-abortion plaintiffs to claim a free exercise right to abortion if Roe v. Wade is overruled and states enact anti-abortion laws.

Jonathan Isaby added: «You can't blame the club for taking advantage of the ludicrously - generous taxpayer subsidy they've been handed on a plate; instead, we should be directing our anger and awkward questions at those responsible for offering a deal for which most clubs would have sold their star striker.»

That formula, which is provided to WIC at a discount, cost taxpayers an estimated $ 627 million in 2008, the most recent figure available (equivalent to a $ 2 billion value on the retail market).

He announced that his government would maintain a flat 10 - percent income tax, which, among other things, means that the lower income taxpayers will continue to bear most of the burden.

Just as he's pushing through # 12bn of welfare cuts which will hit the poorest and most vulnerable in society, Osborne wants to sell the taxpayer - owned bank back to his friends in the City at knockdown prices, losing taxpayers at least an eye - watering # 13bn.

The Government could have achieved better value for the taxpayer through its controversial privatisation of Royal Mail, according to a new report which reveals most investors given priority to buy shares sold them shortly after making a profit.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo hinted in his State of the State speech on January 3 that he might back tax hikes on people he says will benefit the most from the recent federal tax overhaul, which includes cuts to corporations and some wealthy taxpayers.

Senate Democratic official added: «There are no plans to print this at the taxpayers expense because it won't allow us to use public funds for political purposes to retake the Senate, which is what most of what our public funds are used for.»

The executive proposes a decrease of some $ 190,000 (0.024 percent) in the $ 76,893,016 tax levy for next year, which for most taxpayers might finance a burger, or some chicken nuggets.

«The suspension model most closely complies with HMRC's penalty principles, which include that penalty regimes should be designed from the taxpayers» perspective, primarily to encourage compliance and prevent non-compliance, and that penalties are not to be applied or seen to apply with the aim of raising money.»

«There is no justification for massive pay and bonus awards in financial institutions, the most important of which are guaranteed or owned or have been rescued by the taxpayer,» he said.

Gov. Cuomo hinted in his State of the State speech on January 3 that he might back tax hikes on people he says will benefit the most from the recent federal tax overhaul, which includes cuts to corporations and some wealthy taxpayers.

Most New York taxpayers are eligible to e-file their personal income tax returns for free, yet more than 70 % still hire a tax preparer to complete the return, which often costs hundreds of dollars per filing.

Governor Cuomo hinted in his State of the State speech that he might back tax hikes on people he says will benefit the most from the recent federal tax overhaul, which includes cuts to corporations and some wealthy taxpayers.

Furthermore, most funding bodies have stakeholders (i.e., taxpayers) that they must answer to, which is typically restricted to specific countries or regions of origin.

Johnson outlined in the Guardian the view that tuition fees allow the Government to reconcile its three policy objectives for undergraduate higher education: to reduce inequality, to fund institutions on a level which facilitates global competitiveness, and also to share the cost «between the individual student benefitting from a graduate earnings premium and taxpayers in general, most of whom will not have attended university.»

Consistency may be the hobgoblin of small minds; yet the contrast between allowing taxpayer support of private schools, which are neither accountable nor transparent to the public, and imposing the most stringent reporting and accountability standards on all public schools should alarm the fair - minded.

Questions about the legal status of charter schools — which receive taxpayer money but are privately run, usually by nonprofit corporations — are broad, existential ones in Texas, where disputes over school funding are among the Legislature's most contentious.

First, my taxpayer dollars are being spent to support religious schools, which is contrary to one of the most important principles on which this country was founded.

But those who favor the language of privatization say that «school choice» masks reality - they say vouchers and charters redirect the flow of taxpayer dollars from public schools, which most Americans support, into unaccountable private hands.

By 2009, the most recent year for which data are available, taxpayers supplied ISDs with $ 2.6 billion.

Which public school district spends the most taxpayer money per student?

With a neovoucher system, however, the taxpayer never pays (all or most of) the taxes, which are forgiven through the tax credit when the taxpayer instead pays the money to a private non-profit (often called a «school tuition organization» or STO).

Short - term capital gains are taxed as ordinary income, whereas long - term capital gains taxes are typically capped at 15 % for most taxpayers, which is generally lower than the rate applied to ordinary income.

Unlike public - sector workers and our elected officials, most middle - class wage earners in the private sector lack the inflation - indexed defined benefit pensions the public sector enjoys, which are ultimately backstopped by taxpayers.

This is because most savings interest now falls under the personal savings allowance (PSA), which allows basic - rate taxpayers to earn up to # 1,000 tax free (higher rate # 500, additional rate # 0) in interest income each tax year.

Also note that most states offer their own Section 529 plans, which may provide advantages and benefits exclusively for their residents and taxpayers.

What most taxpayers are not aware of is that even during years in which regular tax is paid, the alternative minimum tax is calculated.

TARP [Troubled Asset Relief Program] has become a program in which taxpayers are not being told what most of the TARP recipients are doing with their money, have still not been told how much their substantial investments are worth, and will not be told the full details of how their money is being invested, Barofsky said.

The ex-dividend date is the day on which a taxpayer who buys the stock will not get the most recently declared dividend.

Also note that most states offer their own 529 plans, which may provide advantages and benefits exclusively for their residents and taxpayers.

Most homes pay a portion of the cost of spaying their pet; it is arguably one of the few times in which an at - risk animal is not a taxpayer burden.

If they are doing «research» on the taxpayer's dime, are coming to conclusions which — even on the little data that are available — would be among the falsest and most bogus in the history of science (if the paper had had anything recognizable to do with science in the first place), the question of fraud against taxpayers arises.

Not even if taxpayers help you buy the equipment and pay most of what you would want for the electricity, which is largely worthless once society pays for the extra infrastructure required to utilize it when needed.

Wrapping its talking points in patriotic rhetoric, API's real intent is to continue getting billions of taxpayer dollars each year to corporations like ExxonMobil, Shell and Chevron, which rank among the most profitable companies in the world.

It was intended to justify a global tax - with the American taxpayer getting soaked the most - to create a giant slush fund for the world political elite, the result of which would make those elitists richer and everyone else poorer.

But in some ways that's the most amazing thing of all about this extraordinary affair, which must surely represent the biggest peacetime waste of taxpayers money in history, the biggest scientific scandal in history, and the most extravagant and widely promulgated lie in history: the sheer brazenness of these tricksters» enterprise.

-- tax carbon (simply a top - down government power grab, which achieves nothing regarding climate but hurts the most vulnerable plus the economy in general); — subsidize corn ethanol (not competitive, drives up the price of an essential food crop); — subsidize «green energy» development or manufacturing projects (too many Solyndras, too many political cronies getting taxpayer money to support basically uncompetitive projects).

A study published by researchers at Harvard in 2011 found that the full life cycle cost of coal power is between about 9.5 and 27 cents per kilowatt - hour, most of which is paid by taxpayers in the form of increased health - related costs.

At the same time, cycling — which is the most efficient form of transportation — and energy efficiency, are by far the cheapest means of addressing a wide range of issues, from climate change, to congestion to high energy prices.Cycling is an Overlooked Solution In fact, even compared to mass transit, cycling requires less road maintenance (and hence taxpayer money), takes up less space, and results in far less emissions and noise.

Justice minister Jonathan Djanogly said: «These reforms will ensure that we have a legal aid system which is targeted at those who need it most, in the most serious cases, as well as providing value for money to the taxpayer.»

Another area that is common between all taxpayers, and on which they are struggling the most, is value added tax (VAT) refund requests.

The taxpayer's CPA should always be asked to quantify the tax consequences of the transaction, which represents one of the most important taxpayer's criteria to evaluate when considering whether or not to initiate a 1031 exchange.