Sentence examples for expenses rule from inspiring English sources

Known as the income minus expenses rule (or I minus E), life companies will no longer be able to offset costs of selling life assurance/critical illness cover against investment income.

Then his office announced that he was returning $14,500 to the government for nights he had spent in Indiana hotel rooms during adjournments — a technical oversight of a Senate expenses rule, but one more reminder of his long time away.

Sir Christopher Kelly's revised expenses rules will be accepted by the House of Commons.

Preventing so called umbrella companies being used by firms to avoid tax and national insurance by exploiting expenses rules.

The Yeovil MP apologised to the Commons last week after the Standards and Privileges Committee concluded he should be suspended for seven days for breaking expenses rules.

But any suggestion that MPs are conspiring to loosen the new expenses rules could be enough for them to reclaim that role.

This is not thought to be a breach of Westminster's expenses rules since the hotel costs were in line with those rules, and have been authorised.

John Lyon, the parliamentary commissioner for standards, has launched an investigation into allegations that Maria Miler, the culture secretary, broke parliamentary expenses rules in relation to her second home.

So long as parliamentary expenses rules remain opaque in places, some MPs will make unusual arrangements that they believe to be appropriate, while others will "try it on".

A Foreign Office minister who resigned on Monday has blamed "intolerable" expenses rules for forcing him to choose between his family and his parliamentary career.

You state that "scores" of "MPs may have broken minimum wage law by taking on unpaid interns" (Report, 28 November), as a result of "changes to parliamentary expenses rules" combined with "record graduate unemployment".