Sentence examples for on a remittance from inspiring English sources

For over 200 years foreigners who live in Britain but are not considered by the authorities to be "ordinarily domiciled" there — "non- doms" in international tax trade jargon — have been taxed on a "remittance basis".

The medieval practice of selling papal indulgences, a remittance on punishment for sins, was one of the activities that drove Martin Luther to start the Reformation.

Pope Boniface lured pilgrims accustomed to traveling to shrines like Santiago de Compostela in Spain, where the pilgrims of the Canterbury Tales were headed, to Rome by offering an indulgence, a remittance on punishment for sins.

You sent us a remittance on Aug. 9th for your Aug. selection, but the charge for your Oct. book was open at the time we mailed your Dec. book & therefore you were billed for both of the books at that time.

It's accurate to say then that Mexico relies on a singular remittance corridor with the United States, while the Philippines is dependent upon multiple corridors with multiple countries, a circumstance which more closely echoes the two largest remittance countries, India and China ($71 billion and $64 billion, respectively).

Second, a remittance function was estimated for each migrant community, using appropriate econometric techniques, and which attempts to separate the effect of time from all other influences on remittance behaviour.

On a macroeconomic scale, remittances seem to dampen fluctuations in consumption trends in home countries, lowering the correlation between economic output and domestic consumption.

There is also the issue of wider economic forces, for example the economic downturn, which had an impact on the remittance market, according to the World Bank.

Second, ownership of assets in the migrant's home country has a positive impact on remittance levels.

Winner of 'the most creative way to present research' prize this week goes to Michael Clemens and Timothy Ogden for this lego stop motion video on making remittances a tool for development.

But critics, including many overseas workers, say the government has developed an unhealthy dependence on the remittances, turning a blind eye to their social costs, especially divided families and the reliance on them to pay for services while failing to build a sound economy that produces good jobs at home.