Sentence examples for level of taxpayer from inspiring English sources

Ms. Damiani said the jewelry shops on 47th Street might need some upgrading, but not this level of taxpayer help.

Making his clearest call yet for banks to be split up, so that their retail arms are separated from riskier investment banking operations, he criticised the industry's failure to reform despite "breathtaking" levels of taxpayer support.

Nina Olson, the federal government's national taxpayer advocate, warned in a report Wednesday that taxpayers face "the worst levels of taxpayer service since at least 2001," when the tax agency started measuring its performance.

Eye-popping levels of taxpayer-funded grants, loans and guarantees have been put at the disposal of the banks so that they can continue lending to businesses and homeowners – £645bn at present, but projected by the chancellor to double to a staggering £1.3trn by 2013 – yet the banks have been allowed to renege on their side of the deal.

An important amendment to the constitution, adopted in 1980, requires the refund of taxes if state revenues grow more than 1 percent faster than the level of the taxpayers' income.

If mistakes are made at the trial level, many thousands of taxpayer dollars can be spent on post-conviction litigation, he said.

He said approval from the union's rank-and-file would "demonstrate that our members are willing to sacrifice to save the jobs of 3,496 of their co-workers and preserve the level of service to taxpayers".

Subsequent bonuses will be conditional on Royal Bank of Scotland's share price rising above what the Treasury deems the break-even level for taxpayers' stake in the bank.

"The dissatisfaction that people have expressed about the Internal Revenue Service relates as much to the feeling that some people are not paying their fair share, that they are cheating and gaming the system, as it does to the particular level of taxes that any taxpayer pays," he said.

Furthermore, it is not always clear when income is earned and when taxes are incurred; a direct tax on consumer spending would require the subtraction of net saving (or exemption of capital income in the case of a flat tax, which imposes the same level of tax on all taxpayers) from realized income, and balance sheets would be required in order to prove that saving was correctly reported.

He and the ATR put fierce pressure on politicians at every level of government to sign the "taxpayer protection pledge", a promise to oppose any increase in the marginal tax rate on individuals and firms.