N.B.A. owners are pushing for a hard cap, similar to the N.F.L.'s, or an N.H.L.-style "flex" cap, which allows a broad payroll range but still has a hard ceiling.
With Ms. Sebelius's decision on Wednesday, the Obama administration is taking a more socially conservative stance on Plan B, one closer to that of the Bush administration than to many of its own liberal supporters, even as President Obama has taken a tougher position on higher taxes on the wealthy to pay for a broad payroll tax cut — a stance popular with his political base.
The president and his team have ruled out a broad-based payroll tax holiday to promote hiring, officials say.
WASHINGTON — House and Senate negotiators are deadlocked over how to prevent a deep cut in Medicare payments to doctors who treat millions of Medicare beneficiaries, an impasse that could threaten broader legislation on a payroll tax cut.
His broad cut in the payroll tax is an aggressive response to middle-class income stagnation, they say, and, because most senior citizens do not pay payroll taxes, they need additional help.
The economy, he announced, needed nothing less than a "competitiveness shock": a huge transfer of €30 billion ($38.8 billion) to €50 billion of taxes from the payroll to broad-based forms of taxation, including VAT.Four months later, on November 5th, Mr Gallois, who once ran French railways as well as the aerospace group EADS, is due to hand in his report on competitiveness to Mr Hollande.
Now processing over $150 million in annual payroll, ZenPayroll has broader ambitions of making payroll less of a silo, especially for small businesses.
It doesn't come close to solving the broader issues with San Francisco's payroll tax, but it is certainly a big step in the right direction to keep tech jobs in San Francisco.
Mr. Obama countered with the broad-based and more costly payroll tax cut.
The idea here is to give employers a tax credit when they hire a new worker, as opposed to the much broader approach of something like a payroll tax credit (which is a credit for all employees, new and old).
