If you’re planning to retire next year, it’s not too early to start thinking about the best date to move on to optimize your retirement benefit and payout for unused annual leave. Let’s look at why some dates are better than others, and then you candownload a calendarshowing the be...
Private debt collectors cost the Internal Revenue Service $20 million in the last fiscal year, but brought in only $6.7 million in back taxes, the agency’s taxpayer advocate reported Wednesday. That was less than 1 percent of the amount assigned for collection. What’s more, private contracto...
Meanwhile, government spending rose 3.4%, slightly easing from a 3.6% rise last year. To boost consumption and counter the impact of rising U.S. tariffs, China has set its fiscal deficit target this year at a record-high CNY 5.66 trillion, or 4.0% of GDP, up from 3.0% in 2023. ...
but once the transition to the new vendor is complete by the beginning of fiscal 2023, the budget—and user fees—will fall again. Officials projected that the 2023 budget will fall to $416 million, which is in line the budget growth of recent years, and would actually mark...
Fiscal Expenditure 39541.00 43341.00 CAD Million Feb 2025 Government Budget -1.40 -1.30 percent of GDP Dec 2023 Budget Balance 7574.00 -5134.00 CAD Million Feb 2025 Government Debt 1173.01 1139.98 CAD Billion Dec 2023 Government Revenues 51247.00 42963.00 CAD Million Feb 2025Canada...
The latest example of Trump’s profligacy is the $1.4 trillion spending bill for the 2020 fiscal year that was just approved (this is the “discretionary” money for the parts of the budget that are annually appropriated, so keep in mind that there’s also more than $3 trillion of “man...
Recent reporting suggests so. According toMediazona, Russian AWOL figures are soaring, surpassing the 2022 full‑year tally within the first four months of 2023. Bothcontract soldiers and conscripts are going AWOL, either by directly refusing orders to deploy to Ukraine or deserting from the ...
It’s all about “Get Out And Vote†Know the Dates Sept. 27:  First day mail ballots will be sent out Oct. 9:  Last day to register to vote Oct. 10:  First day of grace period registration and voting ...
The stopgap will be the fourth funding punt Congress has cleared since the fiscal year kicked off in October. It’s the second since Johnsontold House Republicans in writingin December, “I do not intend to have the House consider any further short-term extensions,” after passing a patch in...
The roots of these deficits lie in the federal budget process, which has become increasingly complex (or dysfunctional) in recent years. In theory, eachfiscal year(Oct. 1 to Sept. 30), Congress and the president negotiate and pass a comprehensive budget outlining government spending and projected...