Committee members are paid allowances and in some instances a small honorarium. |
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But those claimed benefits would materialise only if the tax rate were set low enough and personal allowances set high enough. |
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Personal allowances and thresholds will probably be indexed, sucking more people into higher-rate tax as wages rise faster than prices. |
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Given the very small increases in personal allowances, will most people in Scotland end up paying more or less tax? |
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Entitlements range from parliamentary salaries down to a variety of allowances like the printing allowance. |
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Singh said travel allowance, book grants and other allowances were also increased and a three per cent regional allowance was added. |
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I have also noted that North Yorkshire councillors are about to pay themselves large allowances plus amounts for child care and dependents. |
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Since back to school time is rapidly approaching, here are answers to the four most common questions we get from parents about allowances. |
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For example, parents use allowances or dessert to encourage their children to make their beds or eat their dinners. |
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Workers' hourly rates of pay also include allowances for board and lodgings. |
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Vodafone's decision to exclude 0845 and 0800 tariffs from free minutes allowances has upset a number of users. |
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Other senior managers also received about R60 000 in backpay for their car allowances, much to the dismay of ordinary staff members. |
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It made no allowances for cultural, regional, political or temperamental differences. |
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He also wanted to clarify the allowances for using pesticides to save homes from such pests such as carpenter ants and termites. |
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Under the old system, tax allowances were worth more to a higher rate taxpayer, who received relief at the marginal rate of income tax. |
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Cut two pieces of terry cloth, each as wide as the chair, plus 1-inch seam allowances. |
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For patterns with straight front or back seaming, add extra-wide seam allowances to the pattern pieces to support embroidery. |
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Before cutting, review faux fur seaming options and note whether seam allowances will require adjustment. |
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They are also vaguely contemptuous of his beady-eyed negotiations regarding fees and wardrobe allowances. |
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Coun Paul Atkinson said if mayors wished to have a memento they should purchase it with their allowances. |
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For a butted seam using the serger, completely trim away the seam allowances and use a 2-thread flatlock stitch without trimming. |
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It is specifically targeted at those travelling on holidays as opposed to members travelling on posting who are already in receipt of allowances. |
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For a denim bag, press the seam allowances to one side and topstitch near the seam, catching the seam allowances underneath. |
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On the shirt pattern, trim off the hem allowances on the sleeve and shirt front and back lower edges. |
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Conventionally sew the garment shoulder and side seams and press the seam allowances open. |
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Other allowances like sick leave, parental leave or holiday pay provision barely exist. |
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Revenue are going after people in a blunderbuss approach without making allowances for the fact that some people have inherited this problem. |
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Given the state of the town's finances, a 60 per cent rise in allowances would not only have been immoral, but also political suicide. |
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Families dependent on unemployment benefit and lone parent allowances do not have acceptable living budgets, according to a major study. |
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Tuck in the seam allowances of the lining and slip stitch the opening closed. |
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Simply slip it under the unlined pocket's finished hem allowance and press the seam allowances around it. |
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With a few allowances made for modern technology, his standing orders are still highly relevant today. |
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And I didn't have a dollar because my parents never gave my brother, my half-sister and me allowances. |
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We were giving out allowances and we always give it to them in change, so they can take their offering to church. |
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Furthermore, no offset of personal allowances or tax credits will be allowable against tax arising at this low rate. |
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Flickenschild has also okayed the idea of paying child allowances to all families irrespective of their incomes. |
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Health workers had the right to benefits such as hazard pay, subsistence allowances and overtime pay. |
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Many are also looking for information on nursing home subventions and living alone allowances, she said. |
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Don't forget the recent mistakes made which overpaid allowances to some individuals, who then didn't even have to pay it back. |
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To help reduce its oversupply, the agency would supply the rice allowances provided to civil servants, among other measures. |
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The workers are seeking the payment of overtime and risk allowances that have not been paid for seven months. |
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He believes the extra money is being paid as overtime, allowances and bonuses. |
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In addition to the basic pay, and overtime, there is also a wide variety of allowances designed to meet individual personal needs. |
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Already 2,500 technicians have rejected a pay, allowances and superannuation package equivalent to an 18 per cent rise. |
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They spent their allowances on greasy chiliburgers and French-fries served in plastic baskets, and they sat on one of the faded outdoor tables. |
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I have a sneaking suspicion that services would still be cut and that councillors would still see a steady rise in their allowances and expenses. |
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The rates of pay and allowances now paid to MPs must have affected their behaviour. |
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Repeat to sew the facing to the garment, turning the seam allowances out of the way of the lapel. |
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If they perjure themselves they can go to jail and forfeit all retirement pay and allowances. |
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Family allowances were designed to make the poor self-reliant and independent not lazy and indolent. |
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Capital allowances are given instead, for plant, machinery and factory type premises. |
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Social programs cover old age, invalidism, death, sickness and maternity, work injury, unemployment, and allowances per child. |
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People have been queueing up to donate, including children donating pocket money and pensioners giving their allowances. |
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The meeting heard speeches about the attacks on the 35-hour week, flexitime, shift allowances and so on. |
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This will mean a reduction in allowances in the future, but the 23 members currently posted there will not be affected. |
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Minimal rent assistance, family allowances and Medicare health insurance coverage are available. |
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We've made accommodations to the system and allowances for ourselves which is natural and forgivable. |
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In the 2002 pay round, the company proposed a freeze on wages and cuts to conditions such as shift allowances and overtime rates. |
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Heating in all houses is gas-fired, and allowances for kitchen, tiling, feature fireplaces, and sanitary ware is included. |
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Different tax allowances and deductions can be available, depending on the nature of the arrangement. |
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For the rest, travel allowances and excellent prize money would be incentive enough. |
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Staff are demoralised, not least because local councils have eroded library opening hours and consequently cut shift allowances. |
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The doctors accuse the college management of not paying gratuities, provident funds and other allowances. |
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But these were simple questions about how public servants use their office cost allowances. |
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The paper reported that in Nakuru, more than 350 employees went on a go-slow to protest the delay in paying salary arrears and allowances. |
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Balancing adjustments or recalculation of writing down allowances on a balancing event are withdrawn with effect from Budget Day. |
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Then, too, he makes allowances for customs that differed from one manor to the next. |
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Meanwhile, further one-day walkouts in London over cost-of-living allowances could be staged if the Government refuses to give ground. |
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To date, the only steady disbursement of these funds are the sitting allowances for the administrators of the fund. |
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Have you claimed all the tax allowances and credits that you're entitled to? |
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The information is used to assist multinational companies in determining compensation allowances for their expatriate workers. |
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It was stressed that the allowances are not a salary per se, but are intended to pay for postage and telephone costs and other expenses. |
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Special allowances are given for expenditure incurred in exploring for minerals and petroleum resources and mine development expenditure. |
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Why waste all this money on allowances, mayoral houses, mayoral vehicles, meetings, workshops, etc? |
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Officers continue on active duty and receive all regular pay and allowances from the Army. |
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All milking females are fed the same ration and no allowances is made for stage of lactation. |
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Press under the seam allowances on the edges of the pocket and finish those edges if your fabric ravels. |
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Most of the money goes in salaries and allowances for teachers, or educators as they are now officially known. |
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Instead, they have been issued only general reassurances that private companies will make allowances for them. |
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Councillors are entitled to basic allowances to recompense them for the hours they put in sitting on committees and reading reports and agendas. |
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Hobart City aldermen have pushed for an increase in allowances for councillors for some time. |
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I do have a lens that big, but with airline baggage allowances to contend with, I had decided to leave it at home. |
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Higher personal allowances are given to people aged 65 and over and 75 and over. |
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Although everyone would benefit from an increase in personal allowances, it would lift 10 million out of income tax altogether. |
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Tax individualisation means that we both have separate tax free allowances and separate income rate bands. |
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It is likely that the IRS may find issues of concern in the area of taxable fringe benefits, particularly automobile allowances and relocation expenses. |
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All it takes is to claim all the allowances to which you are entitled and keep a weather eye on the tax implications when deciding where to invest your hard-won savings. |
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At times, we're all the weakest link, and if we can't be compassionate enough to make allowances for that, we should at least be self-motivated enough to realise it. |
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A chaplain receives the same pay, benefits and allowances as any other officer of his rank, and is eligible for full retirement benefits if he serves twenty years. |
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Officers and councillors are not our masters but servants of the populace, the council tax payers make their handsome salaries, pension conditions and allowances possible. |
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Councillors are our direct conduits to the corridors of power, and we should make every effort to use them to our advantage and to make them earn their allowances. |
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Wash the finished bag a few times, allowing the seam allowances to ravel. |
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Stitch again within the seam allowances, or serge or zigzag the raw edges. |
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Northern Rivers veterans and their partners, widows and widowers and children will be better off following the latest increases in veterans' pensions and allowances. |
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Meanwhile, Government sanction has enabled the East Midlands Development Agency to offer allowances for parties stepping forward to help fund the race. |
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Press the seam allowances open and topstitch with a long straight stitch on both sides of the seam, being careful not to stretch the fabric while stitching. |
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Once basic aliment has been awarded, it is up to couples to agree top-up payments to cover things such as private school fees, university education or disability allowances. |
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The system is supposed to force companies that exceed their national emission allocations to buy extra allowances from more efficient companies or face fines. |
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Also, there are rules concerning how the purchase is made, including trade-in allowances, exchanges between relatives, and gifts and inheritances. |
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Space allowances should permit natural movement and exercise, and the environment should allow animals to perform instinctive behaviours, such as rooting by pigs. |
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Simplifying income tax is an idea with wide appeal, and by abolishing special reliefs you could raise personal allowances sharply, taking low incomes out of tax altogether. |
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What the examiners have done here is to take three issues of property rights, i.e. common funds, gifts, housekeeping allowances, and weave a separate story around each. |
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There will be a clawback of the allowances, in the form of a balancing charge, if the premises ceases to be used as a childcare facility within 10 years. |
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When we arranged this test Marcos asked me to make allowances because I'd be testing the development prototype which was being constantly mucked about with. |
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This relates to American exceptionalism, which makes great allowances for seemingly hypocritical or duplicitous behavior as conducted by our leaders. |
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Councillors there were paid higher than permitted allowances. |
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They were making small fortunes through allowances and overtime pay. |
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Lay magistrates are not paid for carrying out their duties, but may claim allowances, within specified limits, for travelling, subsistence and financial loss. |
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In Phase Two of the ETS we need not only to bear down on carbon emissions, but also to ensure a more transparent way of allocating the emission allowances in the first place. |
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Officers who were involved in the issuance of the voters cards have complained against the nonpayment of their allowances by the electoral commission. |
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So unless you're minded to cut 'em into collops and be done with it, you'd best make allowances for their prejudices when you're after asking them to swear that first oath. |
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The Sri Lankan government has imposed drastic funding cuts to public hospitals and health services for the payment of overtime or extra duty allowances. |
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Punters are aware of the Fringe's tight resources and make allowances for inconveniences such as badly designed ticket wallets and box office problems. |
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Many have been told by their doctors to take leave to protect their health and would step down from the job if they could keep their allowances and pension entitlements. |
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Last June, employees went on strike demanding a better salary, more allowances and the eradication of corruption, collusion and nepotistic practices in the company. |
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The law represented a Malthusian challenge to the 18th-century policy of providing allowances to men whose earnings were insufficient to support their families. |
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The government valorized the pension allowances in April this year. |
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Nor do expense allowances that are generous to a fault amount to proof positive that every backbench MP would, given the chance, rob the poor box in the local parish church. |
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The council say that the increase reflects the fact that the last financial year was the first in which new levels of allowances were paid in full. |
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A spokeswoman said the panel was set up by the council as part of statutory local government regulations requiring all councils to look at members' allowances. |
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The ILP proposed to redistribute the national income, meeting the cost of the allowances by taxing high income earners. |
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Liberal Democrats in Cardiff staged a fat-cat demo outside County Hall to highlight plans to cut council allowances. |
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I say bring the council home helps back and create jobs and stop the allowances they are being abused. |
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There were different approaches to the calculation of oncosts, superannuation and other allowances. |
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They are unpaid, but receive minimal allowances for secretarial help, mileage allowance and a driver. |
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The arrangements had the unintended effect of misapplying some of my Parliamentary allowances for non-Parliamentary purposes. |
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In contrast, a dirty power plant that did not increase its efficiency would have to buy allowances. |
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To avoid these dreadful consequences, that tread upon the heels of those allowances to sin, will be a task of far more difficulty. |
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Tax allowances were raised, as well, construction of council housing accelerated, and pensions and national assistance benefits were increased. |
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Other perks like medical facilities, traveling and daily allowances, leave encashment and gratuity for all MP Officers will remain unchanged. |
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Of relevance to most people would be the annual ISA allowances, as well as maximising tax relievable pension contributions. |
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In addition, the 1951 Budget made further improvements in the supplementary allowances for many war pensioners. |
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Ministers were also updated on procedures to pay pension allowances, with a backdated effect. |
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Materially allowances requested can be released from the moment the most barrettes soles are made. |
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Piper Alpha's design made no allowances for the destruction of the control room, and the platform's organisation disintegrated. |
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Rules on capital allowances vary widely, and often permit recovery of costs more quickly than ratably over the life of the asset. |
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Calculation of the tax to be withheld may be done by the government or by employers based on withholding allowances or formulas. |
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In 1946, universal family allowances were introduced to provide financial support to households for raising children. |
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In addition special responsibility allowances are paid to councillors who carry out more senior duties. |
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At the Augsburg Interim in 1548, he created a solution giving certain allowances to Protestants until the Council of Trent would restore unity. |
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Members are also entitled to allowances for office costs and subsistence, and travelling expenses, based on actual cost. |
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I sometimes press the seam allowances toward the jeans, and then topstitch through the bluejean section, to further strengthen the skirt. |
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Voice recognition systems also need to make allowances for the diverse enunciations and intonations of the same word by different people. |
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Pin the ends of the ribbon loop across the seam allowances and sew them in place using backstitch on the machine or some good, strong handstitches. |
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But Mr Spencer said those part exchanges were worthless.If people already had time shares, they would be offered tempting, generous, part exchange allowances. |
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Claiming rule teams benefitted from less restrictive rules on the number of engines that could be used in a season, and with larger fuel allowances during the races. |
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These are often topped up by special responsibility allowances. |
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Expatriate salaries are usually augmented with allowances to compensate for a higher cost of living or hardships associated with a foreign posting. |
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It is assumed that the production will decline on a reasonably smooth curve, and so allowances must be made for wells shut in and production restrictions. |
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Throughout history, Swedish settlers were encouraged to move to the northern regions through incentives such as land and water rights, tax allowances, and military exemptions. |
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The promise of cash family allowances from Canada proved decisive. |
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Sections 32 to 37 are entitled Terms of Appointment and deal with issues such as tenure, salaries and allowances, resignation and retirement, and pensions. |
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After the 1997 general election, the then Speaker, made a new ruling on entitlement to salary, allowances and services as they relate to Members who have not taken the oath. |
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The suspension of the Old Bexley and Sidcup MP came as Downing Street backed calls for greater transparency in the way MPs claim expenses and allowances. |
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The team reviewed the study and redrafted some aspects of the report, which focused on amending the financial status of teachers in terms of salaries and allowances. |
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A SECOND UKIP MEP is facing a sleaze inquiry over his use of allowances. |
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Punishment included forfeiture of pay and allowances, flogging, branding, keelhauling, confinement, solitary confinement with bread and water, and the death penalty. |
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