Canada will raise capital gains taxes on businesses and wealthy individuals to help pay for tens of billions in new spending aimed at making housing more affordable and improving the lives of young people.
Pennsylvania is expected to be one of the most closely contested states in this fall’s election, and with his opponent sidelined, President Joe Biden is barnstorming it with a three-stop tour this week. Biden will campaign first in Scranton, the city where he was born and spent his earliest years, followed by a Wednesday appearance […]
A Democrat serving her second term in the U.S. House of Representatives recently stated that temporarily exempting black people from paying taxes is not "necessarily a bad idea." However, while parsing through the idea, she determined that such an exemption from taxes still likely won't redress the centuries-old horrors of slavery or current wealth disparities between black people and other racial groups since many black people "aren’t really paying taxes in the first place."On a recent episode...
With his Stormy Daniels trial about to begin, Trump’s novelty value may finally be fading. Then again, this is the land of the surrealIt is a mark of the bleakness of expectations among American Democrats that, this week, President Biden’s slight rise in the polls has been seized on as cause for giddiness. I did it myself. This was it! The beginning of the correction. Finally, the toll of various lawsuits and expensive judgments was coming home to roost in the form of a drag on Donald Trump’s...
The latest Fox News poll shows 64% of Americans think their taxes are too high. But don’t they know that “taxes are the price we pay for civilized society,” in the words of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes?
The budget for 2025-2028 will see the country's general rate of Value Added Tax (VAT) increase to 25.5 percent from the current level of 24 percent, with cuts to education and healthcare also in the pipeline.
On Thursday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” White House Council of Economic Advisers member Heather Boushey stated that President Joe Biden is fighting inflation and its impact by “lowering the cost of student debt for all of those borrowers”
President Joe Biden on Monday unveiled a new student loan forgiveness plan. Here's how the proposed relief could affect your taxes.
As with most tax changes introduced by this government, it's far more
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
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The Irish low-cost operator Ryanair reports that it had to revise its growth plan for Iasi Airport, in the summer season 2024, due to the airport’s decision to increase taxes by 25%. As a result of excessive increases in airport taxes, Ryanair will not increase activity in S24, this increase being instead allocated to other […]