The provision amounted to "a shameful repudiation of American tradition that will encourage exploitation," said an editorial in The New York Times.
Donald Fehr, the union's executive director, said the N.H.L.'s provision amounted to "players paying players," but the league may be changing its stance.
Because the accounts are expected to appeal to people who can afford to make large tax-free deposits, the provision amounts to a large tax cut for wealthy savers.
The Sierra Club, Earthjustice, and other groups objected that this provision amounts to "the single biggest subsidy to the fossil fuel industry in the United States," with a price tag they estimated at $2.8 billion a year.
Slipped out unannounced just over a year ago, the plans to scrap local welfare provision amounted to the shredding of a relatively tiny budget that affects only the very poorest people, funding a policy most of the media doesn't know or care about.
Permission was given for the development in February after [Westminster] City Hall's planning committee agreed to a contribution of affordable housing provision, amounting to 17.4percentt of the total residential floorspace on-site plus £5.94m towards the City Council's affordable housing fund.
The opponents said the provision amounted to a bailout for banks, but Representative Robert Goodlatte, Republican of Virginia and chairman of the Judiciary intellectual property subcommittee, said business method patents, a fairly recent phenomenon, were "a fundamental flaw in the system that is costing consumers millions each year".
The company doesn't say, but it does set aside a huge provision amounting to 41% of gross financed originations for customers who either default or cancel.
Those provisions amount to a tax cut of about $1.2 billion this year.
It is estimated that these kinds of special tax provisions amount to some $123 billion a year, and that the price tag for offshore tax loopholes is not far behind.
Those provisions amount to 620 million euros ($900 million), requiring the Santander UK unit, which is seeking to go public, to sharply reduce its profit for the period.
