A minister has defended the decision to allow several local authorities to raise council tax by more than the usual maximum amount - one will ask residents to pay 10% more to help sort out its finances. Meanwhile, £6.9bn will be spent increasing the state pension and benefi...
Work and pensions minister Sir Stephen Timms said this meant the basic state pension would go from £169.50 per week to £176.45, and that the full rate of the new state pension would go from £221.20 to £230.25. He told the Commons the government is "...
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Legislation:House Bill 4093 (July 15, 2008).State Bodies Affected:State Pension Funds.Report:Divested Securities (October 8, 2014).Prohibited Investment:11 companies.Amount Divested:$185.4 million. Mississippi Contracting Legislation and Divestment Measures: ...
It doesn’t matter whether the household is single or married, the level of income, or the amount of children. Indeed, the tax burden in France in every case is above the OECD average and the tax burden in the US is below average. And don’t forget that average Americans also have ...
Revenue comes from property taxes, sales tax, state aid, federal aid, and other sources. The revenue stream included in the budget is only an estimate of the amounts that can be anticipated. If retail sales fall, the 8.625% sales tax yield will not be as great as anticipated. Similarly,...
(ZhangCitation2004; HsingCitation2010; ShihCitation2010a; Li, Ham, and KleinhansCitation2019; Wang, Zhang, and WuCitation2022). The only state-sanctioned form of interaction between state and residents during the development process seem to involve bargaining the amount of compensation in return ...
Posted inEnvironmentalism,Government intervention,Government stupidity,nanny state,Regulation, taggedEnvironmentalism,Government intervention,Government stupidity,nanny state,Regulationon February 17, 2024|11 Comments » Bureaucrats must have a knee-jerk desire to make citizens miserable. That’s the most logi...
According to the Ministry of Commerce, the number of newly established foreign-funded enterprises in the first five months of 2024 grew by 17.4 percent year-on-year to 21,764. Despite this growth, the total amount of foreign investment declined by 28.2 percent to 412.51 billion yuan. Notably,...
The specific prohibitions relating to companies who engage in the prohibited “boycotts” vary from state to state. Most commonly, the Anti-Boycott Legislation will require that any state governmental entity entering into a contract with a vendor for an amount in excess of US$100,000 include ...