The village of Lakewood‘s proposed $5.3 million budget for 2024-2025 raises the tax rate by 12-cents. Expenditures in the proposed budget are up $612,611 from the current year’s budget. Health costs saw the biggest increase of $322,471 compared with $164,776 in this year’s budget. Transportation costs also rose by over $129,000. Total revenues are estimated […]
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s fourth budget delivers a big-ticket housing program for millennials and Generation Z voters — a multi-billion dollar commitment to be paid for in part with a tax hike on the rich and corporate Canada.
Apple’s latest software update, iOS 17.5 Beta 3, is currently making rounds in the developer community, and for good reason. If you’ve been keeping an eye out for the newest tweaks and features Apple is testing out, this beta version offers a glimpse into what’s soon to come. Clocking in at about 600 MB, this […]
The government of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday unveiled a federal budget that seeks to woo young voters while asking the wealthy to pay higher taxes. Trailing his main rival, conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, by more than 10 points, Trudeau must rally support from the millennials and Gen
House Bill 2653, which would entirely exempt Hawaii’s qualified family-owned businesses from state of Hawaii estate taxes, is perfectly written to completely eliminate estate taxes from the approximate 0.2% of our population that is considered ultra-rich. Many thanks for this incredible legislation.
Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. Canadians have gotten a decent preview of the federal budget over the last three weeks as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his team embarked on a countrywide tour to sell their policies. Political expert, Keith Leslie, discussed what Canadians can expect ahead of Tuesday’s budget. READ MORE: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces federal housing program
Donald Trump is offering a corrupt deal to America’s wealthy elites: He’ll give them tax cuts and deregulation if he’s elected to a second term, even though he’s signaled that he intends to govern as an autocratic leader unrestrained by the rule of law. That would be a deal with the devil that’s likely to end badly for everyone—even the corporate elite, many of whom remain in a state of denial about Trump. Daniel Ziblatt, director of Harvard’s Center for European Studies, has studied what...
The Honolulu Salary Commission Tuesday adopted a nearly 3.6% pay boost for the mayor, managing director, the nine-member City Council and other appointed, high-level city officials for the city’s fiscal year 2025 salary schedule, which begins July 1.
Minister McGrath noted that the surplus is ‘heavily dependent on volatile “windfall” corporate tax receipts’.
While Congress Abandons Border, $3.5 Billion Slipped Into Israel Bill For 'Migrants And Refugees' While Congress failed to pass a border security bill over the weekend amid a flurry of billions in international aid to Ukraine and Israel, they did set aside $3.5 billion for "Migration and Refugee Assistance" for the State Department to "address humanitarian needs of vulnerable populations and communities." While written in an absurdly broad brushstroke that's going to be open to...
German Finance Minister Christian Lindner rejected on Thursday Brazil's proposal to tax the super-rich, indicating a challenging path for it to gain widespread G20 support. "We do not think it is suitable," he said at a press conference alongside Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel in Washington. Brazil, heading the presidency of the Group of Twenty (G20), is aiming to build international consensus on the taxation of wealth this year, and is pushing for a joint declaration at a meeting of G20...
Tesla on Saturday once again cut prices on several of its models for the U.S. market, as part of around-the-world price cuts. Given the cuts, anyone considering the Model 3 and Model Y in the U.S. may want to take a fresh look at the numbers. The base price of the Model Y rear-wheel drive has dropped $2,000 versus last week, to $44,630, while the