Sentences with phrase «years targeting tax»

• The Treasury is going to spend # 900m over the next four years targeting tax evasion and tax avoidance.

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In the coming year, the Government will undertake a review of the tax system to determine whether it works well for Canadians, with a view to eliminating poorly targeted and inefficient tax measures.

This year's budget may contain the further elimination of a variety of tax credits that are costly, narrowly - targeted, and don't have a meaningful impact on the taxpayers for whom they were designed.

State governments have agreed taxes they control, such as payroll and stamp duty, could be targets as part of the federal government's tax reform agenda next year, which many tip will involve an increase in the GST.

Last year, the figure was 333,000, of which 184,000 came from the E.U. Even if you accept, as most do, that immigration has expanded the tax base and kept the price of both food and services down, the influx — for which there is no end in sight — is changing the face of the country too fast for the population to stomach, and the E.U.'s rules on free movement of labor are an easy target.

My severance package was large enough to pay for 5 - 6 years of living expenses, which meant I could save / invest 100 % of all after - tax income earned between 2012 — 1Q2017 to try and «catch up» to the 20X target.

Simply delaying the target for deficit elimination by one year and eliminating unjustified and ineffective tax preferences could free up as much as $ 10 billion annually, or $ 50 billion over five years to support economic growth and job creation.

Before the end of the first quarter of the relevant fiscal year, the Committee establishes financial and performance targets and opportunities for such year, which are based upon the Company's goals for Earnings Before Interest Taxes Depreciation and Amortization (EBITDA) and are linked to our budget and plan for long - term success.

It also confirmed it would introduce a 3 per cent tax on company dividends, increase wealth and inheritance taxes and abolish a tax «shield» — or ceiling — for the wealthy in its effort to meet its targets of cutting the budget deficit to 4.5 per cent of gross domestic product this year and 3 per cent in 2013.

Revenues continue to fall short of targets, while the government appears to need to grant hand - outs or tax concessions to various categories of voters every year.

Earn 6 % * a year tax free ** — that's the variable target rate after ongoing repayment fees and estimated bad debt

More money and more credit, less tax and red tape, plus the same old 6.5 pct growth target: Beijing's key economic conference opened with cautious tweaks to last year's playbook.

But a year after its launch last April, industry observers remain unconvinced that Ontario's 15 per cent non-resident speculation tax had the right target in its crosshairs and, home buyers and sellers — caught mid-transaction by the ensuing plunge in home values — say the government hasn't even acknowledged the casualties caused by its manipulation of the market.

A host of so - called «pay - to - play» infractions have become one of the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau's (TTB) top legal, investigative targets in the past couple of years.

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Over the past two years, when the economy was totally stagnant, and when our economy has needed a quick and fast - acting shot in the arm, we have advocated a temporary VAT cut — alongside infrastructure spending, action on youth unemployment and targeted tax measures for business as part of our five point plan for growth.

As we reported this week, the Senate was considering plans to push for $ 530 million in annual pre-K spending for New York City for five years without a tax increase in order to meet de Blasio's target figure.

Republicans still face hurdles in hitting their target of approving a tax bill this year.

Cuomo is determined to make Collins pay for his vote for the tax cut bill and to repeal Obamacare, naming the congressman as one of his targets in this year's elections.

A liberal outside group is targeting incumbent Republicans for their vote in support of the tax legislation that was passed last year.

As illustrated in the Executive Budget financial plan, the state will be facing significant budget gaps in each of the next three years, and a new payroll tax on employers will be a tempting target for future administrations and Legislatures looking for increased revenues, but reluctant to impose new or higher taxes directly on individuals.

That was $ 91 million below the target set in the revised financial plan issued by Governor Cuomo's Division of the Budget (DOB) in mid-summer — which, based on weak first quarter performance, already had made a $ 600 million a year downward adjustment in projected annual tax revenues through 2020.

Although the New York legislature failed to enact reform legislation to target corruption in Albany this year, it had no problem passing a massive tax cut for millionaires in New York City.

The tax breaks, targeted for businesses and the middle class, include a phase out of a surcharge on utilities, and the distribution of $ 350 dollar checks, starting next year to every family with children up to the age of 18.

Tax experts said the only similar recent tax break that came to mind was in 2014 when New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, passed a more targeted, three - year middle - class family cut ahead of his re-election bid, according to Meg Wiehe, a tax expert at the Institute on Taxation and Economic PoliTax experts said the only similar recent tax break that came to mind was in 2014 when New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, passed a more targeted, three - year middle - class family cut ahead of his re-election bid, according to Meg Wiehe, a tax expert at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Politax break that came to mind was in 2014 when New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, passed a more targeted, three - year middle - class family cut ahead of his re-election bid, according to Meg Wiehe, a tax expert at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Politax expert at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.

In social media posts following a visit Wednesday to Target in Camillus, U.S. Rep. John Katko claimed that the retail chain raised wages last year «as a direct result of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,» a federal tax plan that Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed in DecembTax Cuts and Jobs Act,» a federal tax plan that Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed in Decembtax plan that Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed in December.

New York spent $ 21,206 per pupil compared to a national average of $ 11,392 in school year 2014 - 2015.38 Better targeting spending to the highest needs districts would contain costs while ensuring that all students have access to a sound basic education.39 The State wastes $ 1.2 billion annually on property tax rebates and allocates $ 4 billion annually on economic development spending with a sparse record of results.40 Curtailing spending in these areas would reduce pressure to increase taxes and lessen the tax differential with other states.

The ad accuses Slaughter of a voting for a slew of tax increases, including the so - called «cap and trade» emissions measure and trots out the frequent Republicant talking point that the 2010 federal health care bill cuts $ 716 billion for Medicare, which is actually spread out over 10 years and targets subsidies to insurance companies.

A 157 - page report from the first of two tax commissions Cuomo convened in the past year offered a «menu» of revenue - neutral changes, which includes dialing back some targeted subsidies, as well as a repeal of several items carved out of the sales tax base.

We are targeting new tax credits to hire inner city youth and reduce unemployment in some of the poorest areas of our state, as well as providing direct aid to communities struggling to recover in the wake of this year's severe storms.

Just days before the Hurricane struck, Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli issued a mid-year analysis showing state tax revenues are not on target and collections would have to grow 6.5 percent the remainder of the year to make up for the lower - than - expected revenue.

Speaking passionately about the effects of the bedroom tax, Mr Draper said the policy was «one of the most evil and targeted polices» he'd ever come across in 40 years in the trade union movement.

The Assembly's budget resolution may targets the gains richer New York taxpayers made in the federal tax law approved late last year, Speaker Carl Heastie said on Monday.

Meanwhile, McMahon suggested that if Andrew Cuomo wanted to target business tax giveaways, he should look at his own programs, «such as the $ 420 million a year the state doles out to wealthy film and TV producers, or the state's $ 750 million speculative investment in billionaire Elon Musk's solar - panel factory in Buffalo, or the 100 percent tax exemptions that will flow to the handpicked corporate occupants of the «Start - Up NY» zones.»

Topics in the Q&A included the source of money for the City's planned pre-K advertising campaign, the City's target number of pre-K applicants, whether Speaker Silver thinks the proposed income tax surcharge should be pursued next year, how the pre-K selection process will work, how the City will cover the approximately $ 40 million annual gap between the estimated cost of pre-K and the amount provided in the state budget, when parents will learn whether their pre-K application has been accepted, how the City will collect data and measure success of the pre-K program, whether the existing pre-K application process will be changed, how the City will use money from the anticipated school bond issue, the mayor's reaction to a 2nd Circuit ruling that City may bar religious groups from renting after - hours space in public schools, the status on a proposed restaurant in Union Square, a tax break included in the state budget that provides millions of dollars to a Bronx condominium project, the «shop & frisk» meeting today between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Bratton and a pending HPD case against a Brooklyn landlord.

And in past years, DeFrancisco has benefited personally from targeted tax breaks that he voted for.

POLICY MISMATCH To promote new - energy vehicles, the government has offered various incentives in recent years including tax breaks, and set targets such as having 5 million new - energy vehicles on the road by 2020 - more than 8 times the current number.

Andrew Warren, of the European Association for the Conservation of Energy, says member states will now not be able to meet CO2 targets pledged at last year's Earth Summit, because these required Community - wide efficiency standards, as originally planned in SAVE, and a Community - wide energy tax.

The introduction of the carbon tax, along with Australia's target of generating 41,000 gigawatt hours of renewable energy a year by 2020, up from 21,000 in 2013, has helped increase renewable energy use and reduce the country's heavy reliance on coal, Dargaville says.

And so this all implies that given the pressing climate change issue and Paris targets set at 2050, smaller population and reduced consumption will have very limited impact, so we are mainly going to be reliant on renewable energy and carbon taxes and so on in the shorter term over the next 20 — 30 years or so.

If I can wear them, on average, every - other week year - round, their cost per wear (CPW) goes down to under $ 8, 35 % less than my usual Target purchase CPW ($ 24.99 / 2 wears = $ 12.50 + tax).

Peter Bond's Dunk Island paradise was targeted by the tax man last year over some unpaid bills.

The group's fifth annual survey also found that although states» tax collections are mostly on target and spending is within budgeted levels, policymakers are less optimistic than they were a year ago about their financial situations.

And although charters enroll only 5 percent of America's K - 12 students, to the cash - strapped, high - poverty urban districts that have been targeted for charter expansions, that number represents a shift of roughly $ 38.7 billion per year in lost tax dollars and mass closings of neighborhood schools.

Malloy administration officials are so excited about the notion of a budget surplus that they are talking about proposing a targeted election year tax cut to win over middle - class voters even though the state faces a projected $ 3.2 billion combined deficit over the three fiscal years following this year's election.

The public sector apprenticeship target was introduced in tandem with the apprenticeship levy, which forces schools and trusts with a payroll of over # 3 million to pay a 0.5 - per - cent tax into a central pot each year.

Brown said the policies he had promoted were addressing those issues: Passage of Prop. 30, the initiative approved by voters two years ago that is generating billions of dollars of extra tax revenues for schools, and the Local Control Funding Formula that is targeting billions of state education funds to low - income students and English learners.

One benefit of attaining the LCFF targets would be to underscore the importance of the revenue generated by Proposition 30 (2012) and Proposition 55 (2016), tax measures approved by California voters in recent years.

The final budget bill cut state K - 12 spending by nearly $ 800 million, over7 percent — the largest amount in Wisconsin's history — and limited local governments» abilities to make up for these cuts through property taxes.14 That same year, Gov. Walker passed major tax cuts primarily targeted toward corporations and the wealthy that totaled $ 2.33 billion over 10 years.15 Gov. Walker and Act 10 proponents argued that the bill's reforms would allow schools to offset these cuts by reducing teachers» benefits and hiring lower - paid teachers, preventing budget cuts from affecting students.16 Gov. Walker also argued that eliminating requirements to bargain over salary structures, hiring, and working conditions would give schools additional flexibility needed to attract and retain higher - quality teachers.17

WASHINGTON — Auto industry lobbyists plan to make distracted - driving guidelines, fuel - economy regulations and tax reform their top policy targets on Capitol Hill this year.