It likes the idea of exempting Canada and Mexico and possibly exempting other countries too.
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The border tax imposes levies on imports, while exempting exports.
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Exempting model aircraft from the requirement renders the requirement irrelevant.
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Check. Exempting your own streaming video service from data caps?
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Trump left open the possibility of exempting other countries later.
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The Trump administration responded by exempting Apple products from the tariffs.
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The proposal would subject imports to U.S. tax while exempting exports.
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The FMCSA is exempting 28 truck drivers from its vision requirements.
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Florida would be the only state exempting itself from standard time.
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However, some Iranian organizations were granted licenses exempting specific transactions from sanctions.
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Exempting large categories of genetically modified foods would make the labels useless.
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Electric vehicles, however, receive waivers, exempting them from much of the process.
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But exempting major firms may mean it did only half the job.
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Defense Secretary James Mattis sensibly suggested that we might consider exempting our close allies from the tariffs to avoid creating a ridiculous diplomatic incident, but Trump blocked that idea because exempting allies would make the policy economically meaningless.
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In 39.603, Kansas started exempting pass-through income from all state income taxation.
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The memos eschew exempting categories of people, no matter how sympathetic, from prosecution.
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The possible steps included exempting small banks from having to comply with it.
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The FMCSA will also consider exempting another 18 truck drivers from the requirements.
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The border-adjustment proposal would subject imports to U.S. taxes while exempting exports.
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The FMCSA will also consider exempting another 18 truck drivers from the requirements.
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To end mass incarceration, however, exempting nonviolent offenses from jail time isn't enough.
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And Republicans were able to insert language exempting smaller businesses from the requirements.
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It is also reportedly considering exempting opinion and satire pieces from fact-checking.
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The Venice Commission proposed exempting humanitarian aid, advocacy and campaigning activities from criminal sanctions.
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Students will, however, be able to obtain a waiver exempting them from these requirements.
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Rather, it is about exempting the mining industry from fundamental environmental and public oversight.
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The FMCSA is also considering exempting another 85033 truck drivers from the vision requirement.
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Another judge issued an order exempting his own cases from the first judge's order.
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Mr. Zinke's announcement exempting Florida from drilling came shortly after a meeting with Gov.
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The power authority's creditors claim the company received a waiver exempting it from Promesa.
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He also supported a bill exempting prevailing wage be paid on school building projects.
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The FMCSA noted Thursday it is exempting 28 truck drivers from its vision requirements.
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It addressed glaring errors in the original order like not exempting green card holders.
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As other cities join the movement, some are moving more carefully and exempting iPhones.
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That said, by exempting senior management, your organization is openly using a double standard.
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Among the pathways are the creation of a four percent income-based premium for employees (exempting the first $29,000 of income for a family of four) and a 7.5 percent income-based premium for employers (exempting the first $2 million of payroll).
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Trump did make one potentially major concession by exempting Canada and Mexico from the tariffs.
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Mooppan had argued several points against exempting those with such assurances from the refugee ban.
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Hill proposed on Tuesday exempting more lenders from the toughest version of capital rules altogether.
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Meanwhile, the FMCSA will consider exempting another 85033 truck drivers from the same vision requirement.
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A territorial tax system exempting those foreign profits from the corporate tax would be imposed.
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The federal government could pass laws exempting certain institutions from state regulations or consumer claims.
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Meanwhile, the FMCSA is considering exempting another 10 truck drivers from the same vision requirement.
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Yet the FAA has begun exempting certain companies to allow delivery testing in specific areas.
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Issa would tax the people of his district while exempting his corporate allies and sponsors.
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Granting the request would mean exempting GM from federal standards specific to human-operated vehicles.
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Watson on Thursday declined to put on hold his ruling exempting grandparents from the ban.
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Now, in the midst of a pandemic, Germany is exempting European countries from budget strictures.
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The lawsuit says that the state has erred in exempting charter schools from desegregation requirements.
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On Tuesday evening, the Senate passed an amendment exempting for one year California newspaper carriers.
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One week later he signed proclamations implementing the policy, though temporarily exempting Canada and Mexico.
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WE'RE MAKING PROGRESS WITH THE STEEL AND ALUMINUM TARIFFS IN EXEMPTING MANY PEOPLE FROM THAT.
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But he added that TikTok would consider exempting satirical and educational videos in the future.
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"I don't like exempting equipment because it's all conceptually the same problem," Gordon-Byrne said.
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By exempting the income that businesses reinvest, the government would essentially be taxing consumed profits.
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And retailers hated the idea, because it taxes imported goods while exempting exports from taxes.
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It's the border adjustments, exempting exports and taxing imports, that's really become a hot-button issue.
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In the past six months, the FAA has granted over 200 waivers exempting pilots from restrictions.
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Imports rose in 2002 when the United States last brought in broad steel tariffs, exempting Canada.
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Americans would pay 4% of their income, exempting the first $29,000 for a family of four.
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Companies would be charged 7.5% of payroll, exempting the first $2 million to protect small businesses.
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Puerto Rico from benefiting from the Labor Department's new proposed overtime rules, exempting thousands of island
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At the same time, institute a value added tax of two percent, exempting food and staples.
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The FMCSA is also exempting 36 drivers who have insulin-treated diabetes mellitus from the restrictions.
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NO WE'RE EXEMPTING THOSE PEOPLE FROM THE 003% RATE FROM MANY MORE DOLLARS OF THEIR INCOME.
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In July, EPA signed off on another rule exempting farmers from reporting methane emissions from livestock.
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This is why the Senate bill solely exempting sexual harassment cases from forced arbitration is inadequate.
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The Trump administration also announced on Friday that it was exempting eight countries from the Nov.
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Both sides have since made small concessions, with Beijing exempting some U.S. products from additional tariffs.
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Last week, Trump signed off on tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, exempting Canada and Mexico.
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The council voted to reclassify the feminine hygiene products as "medical necessities," exempting them from taxation.
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Such a tax would essentially levy a 20 percent tax on imported goods, while exempting exports.
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The city received dozens of letters in support of exempting cigar lounges, including some from prominent members.
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Under the House bill, states may obtain waivers exempting them from certain benefits on the Obamacare list.
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The EU has to decide whether to continue exempting international flights by the end of the year.
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It apparently forgot to mention the company was still exempting dozens of hardware vendors from those restrictions.
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The administration has taken promising first steps by temporarily exempting certain vital trading partners until April 30.
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The White House released those ethics pledge waivers Wednesday, exempting at least a dozen White House officials.
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In July, the EPA signed off on another rule exempting farmers from reporting methane emissions from cattle.
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Republicans and some moderate Democrats also support exempting community banks and credit unions from the rule altogether.
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Exempting smaller lenders would leave people in communities served by those lenders unable to assess their performance.
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By exempting the majority of Americans from income taxes, it reduces the importance of deductions and credits.
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Exempting the United States from that proposition, as Mazarr does, entails its own spectacular leap of faith.
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But the administration has the power to grant waivers to particular hires, exempting them from that restriction.
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During the bubble, city, state and federal officials worsened the problems by exempting the industry from regulations.
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Juba is not honoring a similar treaty exempting aid agencies receiving U.S. funding, a Western diplomat said.
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City, state and federal officials exacerbated the problems by exempting the industry from regulations, The Times revealed.
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"There is no rationale for exempting vape shops if the concern is sales to kids," Myers said.
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In recent months, Facebook has come under fire for exempting politicians from some of its ad policies.
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This is most blatantly evidenced by Congress exempting themselves from many of the laws that they pass.
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The companies insist the game is skill-based, thereby exempting it from a federal ban on online gambling.
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Congress Exemption House bill: When initially approved, it included a provision exempting members of Congress from its provisions.
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The law neither explicitly allows zero-rating - exempting certain applications from a customer's data allowance - nor forbids it.
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Facebook will start exempting promoted posts from news outlets from its political ad archives, the company announced Thursday.
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By exempting feminine hygiene products from the sales tax, millions of Ohio women, families, and households will benefit.
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The rules were slightly loosened a week later, exempting overseas travelers and some other groups from self-quarantine.
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He exempted Canada and Mexico, and held out the possibility of later exempting other allies, such as Australia.
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The CFPB is considering exempting certain banks from requirements to provide an annual privacy notice to their customers.
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On Thursday, Ms. Añez issued a presidential decree exempting the military from criminal prosecution when maintaining public order.
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In August, the Environmental Protection Agency granted 31 waivers to small refineries, temporarily exempting them from biofuel laws.
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Trump said last week he wanted to implement the tariffs without exempting certain countries like Canada and Mexico.
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Meanwhile, FCC Chairman Pai is slowly undoing net neutrality rules by exempting some providers from abiding by them.
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Critics, however, say that exempting small banks from certain requirements is risky and could be harmful to consumers.
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The linchpin of the House GOP approach is the so-called border adjustment tax hitting imports and exempting exports.
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The Taliban not exempting foreign forces from the three-day truce, some 15,000 American troops are stationed in Afghanistan.
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The new tax, assessed at a rate of 20%, would apply to all domestic sales while exempting foreign ones.
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For starters, it means exempting tampons and pads from sales tax in the same way we do toilet paper.
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The measure intends to boost U.S. manufacturing by taxing imports while exempting U.S. business export revenues from corporate taxation.
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Among the key sticking points is a "border adjusted" plan that would in effect tax imports while exempting exports.
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In addition, lobbyists said they have talked to the administration about ending deferral and exempting foreign profits from taxation.
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The first involves exempting U.S. companies from the payment of taxes on any profits that they made from exporting.
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" It urged regulators to "explore exempting community banks from the risk-based capital regime implementing the Basel III standards.
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The Trump administration appears to be either ignoring or exempting top staffers from its own watered-down ethics rules.
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But they included some big exceptions, most notably by exempting existing hospital outpatient departments from seeing their rates cut.
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AS A YOUNG BOY, the idea of exempting no one from redemption tested my mother, who was a Baptist.
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Then he began exempting countries that accounted for large portions of American imports, and the policy became almost neutralized.
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And it's far from clear that even this Congress would go along with exempting churches from the amendment's strictures.
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"There is no public health justification for exempting any tobacco product from FDA oversight," Myers said in a statement.
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There seems to be no support in Congress for exempting veterans benefits from the draconian demands of this law.
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The companies have been accelerating their testing and have backed legislation exempting autonomous vehicles from current motor vehicle laws.
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Both sides, however, have recently taken steps to reduce tensions by exempting goods from tariffs or delaying tariff increases.
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She could never go back to places that humans—"we", she always said, not exempting herself—had so recklessly destroyed.
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S.B. 822 precludes ISPs from exclusively exempting from data limits apps and services that are owned by the ISPs themselves.
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Notably, while Trump ended up exempting other trading partners from the steel and aluminum tariffs, he kept them on China.
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The bill -- which did not pass -- included a major loophole exempting some major interest groups, including the National Rifle Association.
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As Judd Legum reported this week in his newsletter, Popular Information, Facebook is now exempting political figures from this policy.
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OPEC's share of the cut is 800,2018 bpd, to be delivered by 11 members and exempting Iran, Libya and Venezuela.
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Notably, Biden once backed a bankruptcy bill — which Warren opposed — that included a provision exempting private student loans from bankruptcy.
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This proposes exempting AVs from some existing safety standards, and would prevent states from introducing their own rules for AVs.
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Without this clause exempting websites from liability for the actions of their users, most websites simply couldn't afford to exist.
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Federal agencies had long interpreted the law as exempting not just church plans but also those of church-affiliated organizations.
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Exempting such products means that many cheeses — a major industry in Vermont — produced with bioengineered ingredients will not be labeled.
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The Obama administration may also assist on our economic development by exempting Puerto Rico from the Jones Act of 1920.
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It would impose a onetime, cut-rate tax on corporations' foreign profits, while exempting future foreign profits from U.S. taxation.
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Instagram&aposs parent company Facebook has also been criticized recently for unevenly applying rules, exempting political ads from fact-checking.
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Trump, who meets regularly with Apple CEO Tim Cook, said last month he was "looking into" exempting Apple from tariffs.
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This 7.5% payroll tax would be paid by employers, exempting the first $2 million in payroll to protect small businesses.
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Their K-pop peers have served, so starting a precedent now by exempting BTS would be disruptive, Ms. Herman said.
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SECOND, a hiring freeze on all federal employees to reduce federal workforce through attrition exempting military, public safety, and public health.
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BuzzFeed News has learned that the college will now be exempting children of Indian soldiers from paying fees at the institution.
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Exempting the pregnant, disabled and others, all adults would have to work, volunteer or undergo job training to continue receiving benefits.
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The idea of taxing imports and exempting exports was the House's main solution to offset the cost of cutting corporate rates.
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A new goods-and-service tax adopted in 2017 put a levy on tampons (while exempting condoms and much else besides).
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The amendment initially called for exempting members of Congress from these waivers, however Republicans quickly filed another bill striking that provision.
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For example, Thune said he doesn't think the government should stop broadband providers from exempting their own content from data caps.
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In this view, taxing all imports and exempting all exports will raise the value of the dollar relative to other currencies.
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Over the last few years, the issue of exempting feminine hygiene products has been a tax policy discussion in several states.
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They worried that earlier laws written to protect women — guaranteeing alimony and exempting women from combat, for instance — would be jettisoned.
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Facebook has been facing criticism for its policy exempting political ads with misinformation from the normal third-party fact-checking process.
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To turn a requirement reaching wealth into a rule exempting wealth from tax is to turn the Founders' meaning upside down.
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Federal, state and local governments provide financial incentives for factory farms, while exempting them from environmental, labor and animal welfare laws.
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Italy is a proponent of issuing joint EU debt, as well as exempting various types of spending from budget deficit limits.
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Talks on Wednesday focused on trade, including the possibility of exempting Japan from new US tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.
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Comcast, for example, counts Netflix against the company's broadband usage caps while exempting its own streaming services from the same restrictions.
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Congress wrote the rules for how sexual harassment claims are handled, exempting members from requirements that most other employers must follow.
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On Thursday, the administration significantly diminished the reach of those tariffs, exempting many of its allies — not least, the European Union.
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Legislators ended the practice of exempting businesses known as limited liability companies — often shell companies — from limits on corporate campaign finance.
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House Republicans last year had proposed preventing tax avoidance by taxing imports and exempting exports — an idea known as border adjustment.
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Earlier in the week, Beijing offered an olive branch of sorts, exempting a handful of American-made goods from retaliatory tariffs.
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It would impose a one-time, cut-rate tax on corporations' foreign profits, while exempting future foreign profits from U.S. taxation.
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The state Legislature followed up with a law to codify the ruling while exempting numerous professions — but not on-demand workers.
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Last week, the Trump administration rolled out a new executive order exempting Iraq and reinstating a temporary blanket ban on all refugees.
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Many Republican senators seem to agree that merely exempting the companies from corporate tax and adding a new special deduction isn't enough.
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Ryan sees border adjustment, which taxes imports 20 percent while exempting exports, as the linchpin of his plan for corporate tax reform.
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They are the ones now begging Iran, and now exempting Iran [as well as Nigeria and Libya], because they want this done.
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"As soon as [Trump] starts exempting countries, he has to raise the tariff on everybody else," Navarro said on Fox News Sunday.
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In the hope of exempting their product from the restrictions, Bluesmart has arranged meetings with the airlines to demonstrate their bags' safety.
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Harris raisies the threshold, exempting households making below $100,000, with an even higher income threshold for families living in high-cost areas.
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SECOND: a hiring freeze on all federal employees to reduce the federal workforce through attrition (exempting military, public safety, and public health).
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McConnell's comments echo other senators' remarks about the border-adjustment proposal, which would subject imports to U.S. taxes while exempting exports. Sen.
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The government has said it will mitigate the impact on the poor by exempting sales taxes on basic food products and medicines.
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Though efforts to water down the bill (for example by exempting petrol) appear to have been overcome, its precise workings remain undecided.
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In more recent years, ISPs have been pushing the idea of zero rating, which involves exempting select content from these arbitrary limits.
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"This bizarre proposition is like exempting restaurants from food handling requirements because they are subject to the fire code," Mr. Donahue said.
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"Exempting the Intelligence Community agencies, which most need the reforms, from the consultation process weakens the reform intended by the committee," OpenTheGovernment.
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It would also stop exempting factory farms from anti-pollution rules and punish farms that create herbicide drift and pollute organic farms.
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The South Carolina Senate has passed a bill, for example, exempting homeowners with solar panels from paying property taxes on their panels.
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Many of the "careless" and "clueless" tend to be hobbyist fliers, so exempting them from a requirement makes no sense at all.
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One possibility is that the Trump administration has issued waivers exempting Knight and the other lobbyists they've hired from the new rules.
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There are exceptions: Over the years, Congress has enacted laws exempting some legislative proposals, like budget resolutions and reconciliation bills, from obstruction.
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Utah passed a free-range parenting law, exempting parents from accusations of neglect if they let their children play or commute unattended.
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Most recently, the administration has had to consider its approach to waivers granted to oil refiners, exempting them from the blending requirements.
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The former economic officials said that the changes so far made sense, like exempting some smaller banks from the law's strictest requirements.
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As President Donald Trump's social media platform of choice, Twitter received plenty of backlash over its policy exempting politicians from its rules.
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That was likely due to the U.S. exempting hundreds of Chinese products from tariffs during the month, Caixin said in the survey.
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The U.S. is temporarily exempting more than 400 types of Chinese products from tariffs that President Donald Trump's administration imposed last year.
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Central to the plan is a provision that would tax imports at a rate of 20 percent while exempting exports from taxation.
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And unlike rival T-Mobile, Sprint is not exempting music or video from a customer's data cap, a practice known as zero rating.
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The proposal to tax businesses on imported products, while exempting exports, suffered many near-death experiences in the 13 months it was debated.
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For instance, exempting second-hand polymers from value-added tax is defended on the grounds that the primary material has already been taxed.
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The most common rationale for exempting small businesses was to shield them from the costly, time-consuming burden of complying with government regulation.
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Beijing on Monday slammed the Trump administration's announcement that it would stop exempting several countries from its sanctions on buying oil from Iran.
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The government opted to impose the restrictions solely on commercial porn sites, exempting social media and discussion platforms like Twitter, Imgur, and Reddit.
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For example, the California law bans broadband providers from exempting their own content from data caps while charging for data used by competitors.
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Chula Vista, California is offering an 85-acre plot, valued at $100 million, and exempting the company from property taxes for 3 years.
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The FMCSA said Thursday it is exempting these drivers from rules that would otherwise prohibit them from driving commercial motor vehicles between states.
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ALBANY — The State Legislature has given its final approval to a bill exempting tampons and other feminine hygiene products from sales taxes. Gov.
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Lisa Murkwoski (R-Alaska) said she was disappointed that the administration seems to be moving towards exempting mint and menthol from the ban.
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Ryan relied on two reporters' recorders during a press conference to highlight exactly how the House plan would tax imports while exempting exports.
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Though intended to boost U.S. manufacturing by exempting export revenues from tax, the provision worries some industries because it would also tax imports.
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Each exemption is worth one month of free benefits for an able-bodied enrollee, exempting them from the work requirement for that month.
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A group of domestic manufacturers is putting together a coalition to support House Republicans' "border-adjustment" proposal to tax imports while exempting exports.
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You voted for hypocritical politicians who insist on strict sexual morality while exempting themselves, placed companies above people and profits above all else.
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But there was an option for a beach ride, and five of us signed waivers exempting TDA for any mishaps on our detour.
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The decree, published in the Official Gazette and signed by Orban, said exempting the group from regulatory scrutiny was in the public interest.
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The plan will limit states from exempting work-eligible adults from having to maintain steady employment in order to benefit from food stamps.
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Kate Brown's (D) office said Friday that Interior Secretary Zinke is considering exempting her state from the Trump administration's proposed offshore drilling plan.
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The White House praised the bill, and Monday's report shares some common proposals, like exempting banks with high cash reserves from Dodd-Frank.
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The border-adjustment proposal, which is part of the House Republicans' tax-reform blueprint, would subject imports to U.S. taxes while exempting exports.
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The measure, known as border adjustment, intends to boost U.S. manufacturing by taxing imports while exempting U.S. business export revenues from corporate taxation.
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In addition to the law exempting the military from value added tax, some of Egypt's other laws also work to the military's advantage.
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He has also issued a statewide executive order exempting faith-based child protection agencies from state laws designed to protect against religious discrimination.
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The parliament's transport committee has instead proposed that the government considers other ways of helping the carrier, including exempting it from paying taxes.
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If that's too much for the shipbuilding industry to swallow, a narrow law exempting Puerto Rico from its reach could be a helpful idea.
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The argument that they do not interfere in the kind of content that is shown was a key rationale for exempting them from liability.
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It's a more ambitious transformation than anyone else is proposing — and, by exempting capital income, probably a better one for the rich as well.
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Mr Wall found another contention that "makes no sense": exempting approximately 24,000 refugees from the ban who already have formal assurances from resettlement agencies.
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Meanwhile, here in the US, zero-rating has taken another form, with various internet service providers exempting certain video apps from their data caps.
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The coalition, called Americans for Affordable Products, is pushing back against the "border-adjustment" proposal to subject imports to U.S. taxes while exempting exports.
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The justices did give Trump a partial win on another issue by lifting an order exempting a category of refugees from the travel ban.
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In Nevada, opponents of the measure said that exempting these products from taxation could result in less revenue for local governments and school districts.
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To that end, the Legislature in 2011 passed a law exempting both nonprofits from oversight by the state comptroller, who normally scrutinizes government contracts.
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House Republicans for some time have been talking about a border-adjusted tax that would subject imports to the corporate tax while exempting exports.
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The Senate bill singles out individuals who purchase stocks, while exempting mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, and other regulated investments from the FIFO regulation.
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New York is one of forty states that taxes tampons and pads while exempting products like hair growth cream and foot powder from taxation.
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The Supreme Court this month declined to hear a challenge to the Trump administration's executive decree exempting Mexican border wall projects from environmental regulations.
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Here's the latest: The social network gave more than 150 companies access to users' personal data, effectively exempting them from its usual privacy rules.
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"It is the key to this market, because without a statement from the president exempting Apple, Samsung becomes the cheapest cellphone company," he said.
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He added that an earlier practice of exempting national security officials from the logs made Mr. Obama's release of visitor names a "faux" transparency.
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China granted new waivers to several domestic state and private firms exempting them from retaliatory tariffs on soybeans imported from the U.S., Bloomberg reported.
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HOUSE PASSES BILL EXEMPTING SMALL BIZ FROM NET NEUTRALITY RULES: The House passed the Small Business Broadband Deployment Act by unanimous voice vote today.
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After Period Equity filed a class action lawsuit against New York state, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a law exempting period products from sales tax.
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She suggested exempting community banks from the Dodd-Frank Act rule on proprietary trading, loosening their capital requirements and streamlining anti-money laundering reporting.
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In 2015, the defense minister issued a decree exempting nearly 600 hotels, resorts and other properties owned by the military from real estate taxes.
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Exempting GM from some of these rules, for example, could clear the company to start offering rides in its fleet of self-driving electric Bolts.
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Among those listed in his most recent iteration are a 113% levy on employees, exempting the first $29,000 in income for a family of four.
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Cameron says it gives Britain "special status" by explicitly exempting it from closer political integration, spelled out in legally binding guarantees of future treaty change.
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"Prime Minister Youssef Chahed decided to start the procedures of exempting the Governor of the Central Bank of Tunisia from his duties," the official said.
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Unlike other Georgia laws, the bill doesn't include language explicitly exempting women who terminate their own pregnancies from the penalties meant to apply to doctors.
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It removed the ability of parents to cite "personal belief" as a reason for exempting their children from vaccine requirements in day care and schools.
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Attempts to weaken the IPR procedure, primarily led by the pharmaceutical industry, have ranged from major procedural changes to exempting certain industries (including pharmaceuticals) altogether.
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The Verge reports that YouTube is also exempting age-restricted content from advertising, so it's willing to forgo ad revenue from the strange kids videos.
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Border tax adjustments are part of the widely-discussed plan to reform corporate taxes, adding a tax on U.S. imports while exempting exports from taxation.
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Perez also slammed the GOP's ObamaCare repeal-and-replace bill for exempting members of Congress and their staffs from losing the healthcare bill's popular provisions.
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But IBM reported margins that, exempting one-time boosts from workforce restructuring and changes to the U.S. tax code, were mostly flat year over year.
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To its credit, Mr Modi's government has responded to complaints by exempting more of the tiniest firms from the tax and pushing back filing deadlines.
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Private-jet owners may benefit from a Republican tax bill before the Senate that proposes exempting excise taxes on the management fees of private planes.
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In 1995, the Lobbying Disclosure Act narrowed FARA's purview further, by exempting registered lobbyists working on behalf of foreign commercial (as opposed to political) interests.
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But exempting future foreign profits from tax leaves open the question of what to do with the $353 trillion in untaxed money already parked abroad.
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Word that Verizon was exempting its own Go90 video service from data caps for Verizon users understandably raised immediate red flags among net neutrality advocates.
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The entire small business exemption idea, she notes, was inspired by a similar one for small telecoms providers, exempting them from long-distance call documentation.
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There was an exception: a measure exempting internet carriers with 250,000 or fewer connections from some transparency requirements in the controversial 2015 net neutrality rules.
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Exempting Australia from tariffs effectively allowed Australian producers to sell cheaper metals to the United States than their competitors from Europe, North America and Asia.
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Experts doubt that Washington can stop all Iranian oil exports — and the administration announced on Friday that it was exempting eight countries from the sanctions.
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In March, President Trump announced the tariffs on imported steel and aluminum from most countries, exempting some allies like Canada, the European Union and Australia.
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The country has also proposed a new data privacy law that would restrict the activities of tech companies while exempting the government from privacy rules.
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He opposed exempting custody banks from the supplemental leverage ratio and not counting reserves stored at Federal Reserve branches, both floated by Republicans and Democrats.
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House Republicans want to impose an across-the-board 20 percent tax on all imports to the United States, while exempting exports from the tax.
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The border-adjustment proposal, part of a tax reform plan House Republicans released last year, would have subjected imports to U.S. tax while exempting exports.
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Uber, Lyft and DoorDash have each pledged $85033 million to mount a ballot initiative campaign exempting their companies from the law if A.B. 5 passes.
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President Donald Trump is opening the door to tariff negotiations with the European Union after exempting Canada and Mexico from new steel and aluminum duties.
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CNBC also confirmed Friday that the U.S. is temporarily exempting more than 400 types of Chinese imports from tariffs that Trump had imposed last year.
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"Exempting municipalities and putting that burden on the commonwealth sets a terrible precedent that other employers may try to use in the future," he added.
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The discussion is about exempting loans to Russian exporters from the new requirement, Simanovsky told journalists on the sidelines of a conference of industrialists and entrepreneurs.
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By exempting Binge On video from using customers' data plans, T-Mobile is favoring video from the providers it adds to Binge On over other video.
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Some payment policies — like exempting some physicians from payment cuts if they don't use approved electronic health records — come from last year's 21st Century Cures Act.
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Alphabet, Google's parent company, launched a lobbying campaign aimed at exempting photos from the law after a similar one by Facebook petered out, according to Bloomberg.
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This would be good for any apps that don't use an internet connection or if you're trying to save some data by exempting bandwidth-heavy apps.
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Trump last week softened his stance on tariffs by exempting Canada and Mexico, and negotiations were ongoing as the European Union and Japan also seek exemptions.
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It showed that in the past, exempting associations from regulations has led to market collapse and a spike in fraudulent insurance plans run by scam artists.
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Farmers have been infuriated at the administration's decision to grant waivers exempting 31 oil refineries from rules requiring them to blend corn-based ethanol into gasoline.
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Perez reversed a regulation exempting domestic and home-care workers from overtime pay and extended overtime protections to some salaried workers by lowering the eligibility threshold.
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It also aims to ensure wider participation by small and medium enterprises by giving them priority over larger competitors and exempting them from providing initial guarantees.
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The FMCSA will also consider exempting another two truck drivers who have implantable defibrillators from rules that would otherwise prevent them from getting behind the wheel.
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Mattis will need a waiver from Congress exempting him from a law requiring a Defense secretary to be out of uniform for at least seven years.
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Trump last week softened his stance on tariffs by exempting Canada and Mexico, but negotiations are ongoing as the European Union and Japan also seek exemptions.
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He is studying a House Republican proposal for a border tax adjustment system that would levy a 20 percent tax on all imports while exempting exports.
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Usage caps on fixed broadband networks are already arbitrary, annoying, and unnecessary, and the practice of exempting some companies can easily disadvantage smaller companies and nonprofits.
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Still, ethanol producers have blasted the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under Trump for granting waivers exempting a record number of refineries from federal ethanol blending requirements.
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Afterward, the city agreed to reconsider, and ultimately issued a policy statement exempting mausoleums under 250 square feet, including Mr. Bradlee's, from the construction permitting process.
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However, there are a handful of provisions beneficial to larger banks, most notably exempting some larger banks from heightened regulatory scrutiny as "systemically important" financial institutions.
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Weeks later the SEC announced that ether did not meet the criteria for a security, thus exempting certain transactions in the token from federal securities laws.
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And there appears to be no scientific justification for initially exempting the UK, which has a higher number of coronavirus cases than other countries in Europe.
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Rather than exempting some banks from the Volcker Rule altogether, Hoenig suggested a softer regulatory approach that would make it easier for banks to continue compliance.
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Australian, Brazilian, European and Japanese respirators were approved, and Trump signed a law last week exempting American manufacturers from liability for sending N95s to health workers.
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Opponents argue that financial transaction taxes would raise costs for savings and investments — to which Sanders has responded by exempting moderate-income taxpayers from his proposal.
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The Food and Drug Administration announced a partial ban on flavored pods this month, forbidding the sale of most flavors but exempting menthol and tobacco flavors.
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"Exempting ringless voicemails from the TCPA's autodialer protections would allow callers to overwhelm consumers with ringless voice messages without first receiving express consumer consent," the senators.
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The ruling party is working on measures to support the bourse from next year, including exempting employees of the capital market and brokerages from income tax.
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Uber and Lyft have sought leverage by threatening to spend tens of millions of dollars to put a referendum exempting their workers on the 2020 ballot.
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Her Help Americans Never Get Unwanted Phone calls (HANGUP) Act would close a loophole exempting debt collectors from a 2202 law restricting telemarketing calls and robocalls.
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What's more, the tax falls only on wage income — exempting interests, dividends, capital gains, and other forms of income that are earned primarily by the wealthy.
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The FMCSA said Tuesday it is exempting 31 truck drivers from a hearing requirement that would otherwise prohibit them from operating commercial motor vehicles between states.
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In this case, the secretary of defense stated that, while a threat was present, narrowly targeted restrictions exempting allied nations and aimed at China were preferred.
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BEIJING — The U.S. is temporarily exempting more than 400 types of Chinese products from tariffs that President Donald Trump's administration imposed last year, CNBC has confirmed.
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It would do so by exempting 9.6 million acres of the Tongass from the Roadless Rule, enacted by the Forest Service in 2001 under President Clinton.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Dubai is exempting companies from administrative fines in a fresh effort to stimulate business, which has been dampened by new taxes and slumping asset markets.
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The government raised stamp duties to 15 percent of the transaction value early November, exempting first time buyers, in an effort to cool an overheated property market.
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The country moved to partially relax those conditions in 2016, exempting foreign retailers from the sourcing rule for three years in a bid to attract more investment.
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Lula would then be free to campaign for another candidate, or to resurrect his own candidacy while seeking an injunction exempting him from the Ficha Limpa law.
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But given Justice Kennedy's votes exempting juveniles and people with intellectual disabilities from the death penalty there is a chance Bucklew could have gone the other way.
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The U.K.'s Defense Secretary Michael Fallon has announced plans to stop legal claims against British soldiers in combat, by exempting them from laws on human rights.
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The FMCSA announced Tuesday it is exempting 18 truck drivers from vision requirements that would otherwise prohibit them from operating commercial motor vehicles between states for business.
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The FMCSA is also considering exempting another two truck drivers who have implantable cardioverter defibrillators from rules that would otherwise prevent them from getting behind the wheel.
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DUBAI — The Trump administration is granting Iraq a renewed 90-day waiver exempting it from U.S. sanctions on Iran, a State Department official told CNBC on Tuesday.
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The streamlining of permits has long been central to federal infrastructure discussions, and highway funding bills in 28503 and 22019 included measures exempting projects from certain requirements.
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The Trump administration was expected to defend these hires by announcing that it had given out special waivers, exempting selected former lobbyists from the president's executive order.
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The concept of "zero rating"—or the process of an internet service provider exempting certain content from broadband usage caps—has been controversial for several years now.
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Exempting only INCLE funding is better than nothing, but would transmit the message to Palestinians that the U.S. cares only about Israeli security and not their welfare.
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Exempting international students from a free college plan risks losing those studentsEnding tuition and fees for Americans would almost certainly lead to big revenue losses for institutions.
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That's stricter than Oregon's recent law, which imposed a 7 percent cap, although last month California lawmakers offered a twig-sized olive branch by exempting newer rentals.
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The House proposals to defund Planned Parenthood and allow states to obtain waivers exempting insurers from federal requirements to cover maternity care were particularly unpopular with women.
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Republicans are fiercely divided over a key proposal in the House GOP tax reform plan, a measure that would hit imports with U.S. taxes while exempting exports.
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How tariffs are playing: Trump today said if Canada and Mexico gave the U.S. a "fair" deal he would consider exempting them from steel and aluminum tariffs.
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Trump is also considering exempting 90 percent of national forests in Utah from the rule, which would open about four million more untouched acres to potential deforestation.
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Until the EPA eliminates the loophole exempting asbestos from the same reporting requirements that apply to thousands of other chemicals, the American public will remain at risk.
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This plan is known as a Destination Based Cash Flow Tax (DBCFT) and could raise around $85033 trillion in new revenue by taxing imports and exempting exports.
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A centerpiece of Ryan's effort is a controversial border-adjustment tax that would impose a tax on imported goods while exempting products manufactured in the United States.
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A lynchpin of the House Republican "Better Way" agenda and viewed favorably by Trump's team, the policy would incentivize manufacturing by exempting export revenues from corporate taxes.
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Also on the docket, Wednesday brings a Senate Commerce Committee markup of a bill exempting small broadband providers from transparency rules in the FCC's net neutrality order.
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China has granted new waivers to several domestic state and private firms exempting them from retaliatory tariffs on soybeans imported from the United States, according to Bloomberg.
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The government would impose a 20 percent tax on corporate income earned in the United States, which would have the effect of taxing imports while exempting exports.
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The administration also gave conflicting messages on a tax plan embraced by House Republicans that would apply the corporate tax rate to all imports while exempting exports.
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The administration did take a step back in due course, exempting Canada and Mexico from the new penalties and inviting other countries to negotiate for better deals.
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In the 22015 ruling under review, the 29th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals deemed unconstitutional a 20153 provision exempting private collectors of government debt from TCPA liability.
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In particular, Congress might consider a law exempting a President—while in office—from criminal prosecution and investigation, including from questioning by criminal prosecutors or defense counsel.
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Although there has been some progress: The government, after being urged by Sadovy's team, has agreed to review the law exempting fishing vessels from declaring live cargo.
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Lawmakers are already engaged in a heated debate over a proposed border adjustment tax, which would tax imports from around the world while exempting exports from US taxes.
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That churches get tax emptions is a questionable idea in itself, and many good reasons for taxing churches (especially church property) and not exempting contributions to them exist.
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He and others rejected Chequers because it would give UK-based firms free access to the single market for trade in goods while exempting them from EU rules.
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ICAO's proposed Carbon Offsetting Scheme for International Aviation recommends bringing in the carbon offsets agreement in phases to accommodate developing nations and exempting the world's least-developed countries.
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However, Conley said the whole idea of a flavor ban needs to be scrapped, because exempting mint and menthol would substantially benefit Juul, the largest e-cigarette manufacturer.
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His somewhat sanitised order issued on March 6th—taking Iraq off the list of countries and exempting America's lawful permanent residents from the restrictions—hasn't fared much better.
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Eleven years later, he asked Congress to consider "exempting a president—while in office—from criminal prosecution and investigation, including from questioning by criminal prosecutors or defence counsel".
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By exempting body camera footage from the Right to Know act, officers gain the ability to outright deny requests if the agency determines they're part of an investigation.
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Health policy analysts inform the Wall Street Journal that a provision of the bill would allow states to obtain waivers exempting them from certain Affordable Care Act regulations.
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Eleven years later, he implored Congress to consider "exempting a president—while in office—from criminal prosecution and investigation, including from questioning by criminal prosecutors or defense counsel".
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The president called for the withdrawal of the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership and ordered a freeze on the hiring of new federal workers, exempting the military.
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"There is no moral or economic case for exempting the earnings of Olympic athletes over other categories of workers," CTJ intern Kelsey Kober wrote in a blog post.
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Brown described Oregon-based NuScale, a startup building small advanced reactor technologies, as "innovative," but she declined to comment on state legislation exempting the technology from the ban.
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The White House on Wednesday evening released its list of waivers to the Trump administration ethics pledge, exempting at least a dozen White House officials from the rules.
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Sears is one of more than 50 other physicians who are accused of improperly exempting people from having vaccinations since the law went into effect, the Times reported.
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In Washington, Republican legislators' proposals include a border adjustment tax, which intends to boost U.S. manufacturing by taxing imports while exempting U.S. business export revenues from corporate taxation.
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The bill they devised actually reduced sentences for federal drug crimes by exempting first-time, nonviolent drug offenders from the onerous "mandatory minimum" penalties created under earlier administrations.
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Likewise, the AIRR Act continued the massive subsidies that flow to general aviation aircraft, exempting most general aviation users from the new charges imposed by the non-profit.
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The three have threatened to retaliate on imports of a number of American goods after Trump imposed tariffs on their steel and aluminum imports after briefly exempting them.
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Second, by preserving the gain that accrues when wealthy taxpayers hold securities rather than exempting it from taxation, the rule would make the tax code considerably more equitable.
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Critics have also raised concerns that exempting smaller banks from mortgage data reporting would make it harder for the government to crack down on racial discrimination in lending.
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AT&T and Verizon were similarly blasted by the previous FCC for exempting their own mobile video offerings from caps and overage fees—while still penalizing competing services.
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Raising this fee risks thwarting lending, so the ECB is likely to compensate banks by exempting part of their cash from this charge through a multitiered deposit rate.
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The standard VAT rate in Germany is 19%, while the reduced VAT rate (applicable on specific goods and services and exempting most electronically supplied services) is 7% (here).
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But overall, the Trump administration's ethanol policies have frustrated farmers, especially in August when his EPA granted 31 waivers to small refineries, temporarily exempting them from biofuel laws.
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And the business model of zero-rating — or exempting certain Internet traffic from data caps — is a controversial topic that is still being debated in the United States.
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Mr. Mnuchin doused more cold water on the border-adjustment tax this week, revealing his serious concerns about the impact of taxing imports and exempting exports from taxation.
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Dodd-Frank overhaul The House is expected to take up a Senate-passed measure exempting dozens of banks from the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law this week.
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Secretary of State John Kerry said he'd told his Iranian counterpart that "to ensure maximum clarity," he'd issued new, redundant waivers exempting Iran from sanctions lifted under the deal.
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In its June report reviewing financial rules, the Treasury recommended changes to the current rule, including exempting banks with less than $10 billion in assets and easing compliance requirements.
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It would bring an additional 1,100 new entities into scope globally, but industry bodies say these firms need more time or even exempting, given they are not systemically important.
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"For far too long, wealthy countries have abused the WTO by exempting themselves from its rules through the use of special and differential treatment," Lighthizer said in a statement.
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Under a leniency agreement, a company must admit to guilt and provide evidence of wrongdoing by other players in a conspiracy or cartel, potentially exempting it from paying fines.
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Last week's gains were also supported by U.S. President Donald Trump's softer stance on his decision to impose import tariffs on steel and aluminum by exempting Canada and Mexico.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's Supreme Court on Tuesday canceled legislation exempting Jewish religious seminary students from military service, angering ultra-Orthodox lawmakers who could destabilize Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition.
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One of the most controversial provisions in the House GOP plan would place a new tax on imports while exempting from the corporate tax any products produced for export.
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When Barton again sought the gavel in 2900, he was unable to get a waiver exempting him from a rule limiting lawmakers' terms at the helm of a committee.
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Exempting Puerto Rico from the Jones Act -- a 1920 law that requires that all goods shipped to or from the island between US ports be handled by American ships.
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When Barton again sought the gavel in 2010, he was unable to get a waiver exempting him from a rule limiting lawmakers' terms at the helm of a committee.
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The bill is almost exclusively focused on exempting community banks, those Main Street institutions with less than $22019 billion in assets, from some of the worst Dodd-Frank rules.
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Just last week, the Trump administration announced that it would impose stiff tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Mexico, Canada and the European Union, after previously exempting them.
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But the original argument for exempting out of state online vendors from taxation, as decided by the Supreme Court 26 years ago in the case of Quill Corp v.
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Why it matters: Uber made the bold (but cautious) move last week of exempting employees, drivers, and riders from its arbitration agreements for individual sexual harassment and assault claims.
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Trucks: The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is considering exempting two truck drivers who have narcolepsy from rules that would otherwise prohibit them from operating commercial motor vehicles.
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The FMCSA is also considering exempting another 12 truck drivers from the vision requirements that would otherwise prohibit them from getting behind the wheel and driving across the country.
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But Facebook's policy exempting politicians' content from the company's Community Standards and its fact-checking program undermines all of that progress and will do irreparable damage to our democracy.
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" A former senior Trump administration official who worked on trade told Axios, "Can understand his frustration, but un-exempting minor metals tariffs isn't going to do or change anything.
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Uber and Lyft had hoped for a deal with organized labor exempting them from the measure, and the Teamsters and the Service Employees International Union explored such an agreement.
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GUN EXEMPTION IN ARKANSAS Arkansas lawmakers have sent the governor a measure exempting college sporting events from a new state law that greatly expands where concealed handguns are allowed.
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It remains unclear what was discussed during the meeting, which came at a time when Zuckerberg adamantly worked to defend Facebook's new policy exempting political ads from fact-checking.
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"Exempting certain cigars from FDA oversight will have serious consequences," said the letter signed by groups including the American Medical Association, the American Lung Association and March of Dimes.
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The controversial tariffs, which are set to begin in 15 days, slap a 25 percent levy on imported steel and 10 percent on imported aluminum, exempting Mexico and Canada.
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New York and 39 other states impose sales taxes on tampons and sanitary napkins, while exempting the Rogaine hair regrowth treatment, condoms and other products mostly used by men.
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The U.S. leader said Thursday that he was slapping tariffs of 25 percent on imported steel and 10 percent on aluminum, temporarily exempting big steel producers Canada and Mexico.
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Ahead of that, there had been concessions from both sides, with Beijing exempting some American products from additional tariffs, while the Trump administration also agreed to delay tariff hikes.
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The government of President Donald Trump has considered a Republican proposal for a border tax adjustment system that would levy a 20 percent tax on all imports while exempting exports.
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BERLIN, April 20 (Reuters) - Germany's coalition parties plan to boost demand for electric cars by exempting them from vehicle tax, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung daily reported on Wednesday, citing coalition sources.
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" The proposal, she said, is "aimed at exempting climate change from the ESA" and would allow people "to destroy more critical habitat and still be in compliance with the law.
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Exxon had requested a protective order exempting the company from handing over the climate change documents, but Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Heidi Brieger denied it, marking a win for Healey.
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Kavanaugh is a decorated judge, they say, and his law review article proposing a law exempting presidents from prosecution will not affect his jurisprudence given that Congress ignored his plea.
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Gradually exempting 80% of households from a property tax (separate from the one levied on the richest) is popular, but means €3bn of lost revenues in 2018, and more later.
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The FCC's new Republican leadership is not likely to enforce net neutrality rules against zero-rating, which prevented exempting certain internet content — streaming music and video — from customer data caps.
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USTR added that statements by French officials suggest the tax will amount to de facto discrimination against U.S. companies ... while exempting smaller companies, particularly those that operate only in France.
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Specifically, it would not report overseas sales revenue -- effectively exempting it from the US tax -- or costs of imports into the United States, thereby including the cost of imported intermediates.
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And Brownback's signature policy -- exempting the owners of limited liability companies and other pass-through business owners -- was the part that really took the policy down with the general public.
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Trump is studying a Republican proposal in the House of Representatives for a border tax adjustment system that would levy a 20 percent tax on all imports while exempting exports.
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But it has divided the business community and Republicans over a border adjustment tax provision that would impose a 20 percent tax on imports while exempting export revenues from tax.
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The Senate Armed Services Committee afterward easily passed a waiver exempting Mattis from a law that requires Defense secretaries to be retired from military service for at least seven years.
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On Thursday, an Illinois state senator, Terry Link, introduced an amendment that would have weakened the law by exempting photo-tagging technologies that are now commonly used on social media.
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Warren in October challenged Facebook's policy of exempting politicians' ads from fact-checking by running ads containing the false claim that CEO Mark Zuckerberg was endorsing Trump's re-election bid.
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Freeports were created to facilitate trade by exempting goods in transit from import duties or sales tax, but are now used mainly to store high-value goods discreetly and safely.
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A part of the bill exempting low-volume community banks from expanded Consumer Financial Protection Bureau reporting requirements passed the House within months of its introduction last summer by Rep.
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Congress hoped that exempting those early access providers, message boards, and other newborn web services from responsibility for their users' actions would speed their way to grow into something greater.
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The budget proposals also reduced the burden for the lower middle class, by exempting people earning up to 500,27 rupees from income tax from an earlier cap of 22,218 rupees.
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Those changes are expected to include reducing the geographic area that the program affects to exempt rural providers and exempting drugs for which there is no good alternative treatment. Rep.
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The rules, which the state expects to begin implementing in July, cover people from 19 to 64 years old, exempting some groups including pregnant women and former foster care youth.
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Erik Paulsen (R-Minn.), and now Senator Thune, have introduced bills that would revise the tax significantly by exempting individuals' contributions to their HSAs and FSAs from the tax calculation.
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The new agreement — which renames the North American Free Trade Agreement as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement — neutralizes that threat by effectively exempting Canada's exports to the United States.
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A Times investigation found the social network gave major technology firms far more access to users' personal data than it had disclosed, effectively exempting some partners from its privacy rules.
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In 1991, after midshipmen raided a West Point veterinary clinic, took four Army mules and were chased by helicopters, the two academies signed a pact exempting mascots from their pranks.
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Since the adoption of the RFS, the Environmental Protection Agency has granted waivers to small refiners exempting them from their obligations if they prove compliance would cause them financial distress.
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Fallin's executive order suggested exempting certain people from the work requirement, such as those under 19 and over 64, pregnant women, those participating in an addiction treatment programs, and more.
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Like other Southern states, Tennessee makes a selling point of the scarcity of unions, largely a result of laws exempting workers who don't join from paying the equivalent of dues.
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The company attributed the jump to the cancellation of accounts payable for municipality fees, as a result of a royal decree issued this year exempting the company from paying them.
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More than 30 Senate Democrats on Monday criticized the Trump administration's new vaping ban for exempting menthol flavored e-cigarettes and any e-liquids that are not in a cartridge.
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In some states, like Kansas and North Carolina, laws have been enacted to shield body-camera videos from public consumption by exempting them from open records laws in most cases.
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Warren also argued that the bill "undermines civil rights protection" by exempting banks that issue 85033 or fewer mortgages a year from reporting home loan data to the American government.
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So, too, exempting a business from anti-discrimination laws today would harm consumers, who would be left to wonder where they could shop and where they would be turned away.
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That approach marks a sharp break from Obama administration's EPA, which had often either adopted energy department recommendations or, when it didn't, ruled against exempting oil refiners, the sources said.
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U.S. President Donald Trump announced import tariffs of 23 percent on steel and 1.23 percent on aluminum on Thursday, exempting Canada and Mexico while offering the possibility of excluding other allies.
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Azar is now reportedly considering exempting mint and menthol flavors from the ban, amid warnings from Trump's 2020 campaign team that the ban could have negative political ramifications for the president.
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Elizabeth Warren and former Vice President Joe Biden have leveled sharp criticisms against the company in recent days for its policy of exempting ads by politicians from third-party fact-checking.
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"The system was built in a way that alleviated the pressure on banks from the beginning" by exempting some bank reserves from charges for keeping their money with the central bank.
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Pai and Commissioner Michael O'Rielly, the other Republican on the panel, also voted in favor of extending by five years a waiver exempting small internet service providers from certain reporting requirements.
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Since World War II, the American tax code has encouraged employers to set up quality health plans for their employees by exempting company health benefit expenditures from income and payroll taxes.
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The hope is that by determining who is paying for these ads, properly labeling them and exempting journalists, Facebook will be able to better track foreign misinformation campaigns and election interference.
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Act 20 offers low corporate taxes to export businesses that set up shop on the island while Act 22 aims to attract entrepreneurs by exempting newcomers from taxes on passive income.
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More specifically, SB 822 takes aim at "zero rating," or the practice of exempting an ISPs own content, or the content of a partner company, from usage caps and overage fees.
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Temer also said he does not intend to issue any decree exempting workers from the outsourcing law he sanctioned last month, adding he does not see the law harming workers´ rights.
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IATA has also called on governments to support cargo operators by waiving certain fees, granting temporary traffic rights and exempting air cargo crew members from quarantine requirements in countries they enter.
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From this viewpoint, exempting priests who hear confessions from mandatory reporting of crime, when doctors and teachers aren't, simply because that's what Canon Law requires, places the church above the law.
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Crucially, the bill does not entail the expenditure of any federal money and throws Republicans a bone in the form of exempting the island from the Obama administration's new overtime rules.
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Exempting Uber and Lyft from classifying drivers as employees would provide huge savings in labor costs and allow the companies to avert what could be an existential threat to their business.
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In exempting Florida from offshore oil drilling, Secretary Zinke claimed he was persuaded by "the local and state voice" of the people whose lives and livelihood could be upended by drilling.
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In May, Congress voted to roll back parts of the Dodd-Frank law by exempting banks with assets of up to $250 billion, up from $50 billion, from stricter federal oversight.
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The agency's preferred option is completely exempting Tongass National Forest, the world's largest intact temperate rainforest, from the 2001 rule that aims to protect roadless areas within the National Forest system.
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While several lawmakers and regulators across party lines have floated exempting smaller banks from the rule, Hoenig proposed allowing banks to operate under a "presumption of compliance" to reduce reporting burdens.
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She issued a decree exempting security forces from criminal prosecution when maintaining public order; the following day, eight protesters were killed in a lethal crackdown, and more have been killed since.
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U.S. President Donald Trump slapped import tariffs of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent on aluminum on Thursday, exempting Canada and Mexico and offering the possibility of excluding other allies.
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The administration decided against exempting Somalia from the 2013 rules because its adherence to limits intended to avoid civilian casualties was seen as helping to maintain partner support for American operations.
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The bill raises the threshold at which a bank is deemed big enough to warrant tighter oversight from $50 billion to $250 billion, exempting dozens of regional banks from stringent rules.
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The official, cited only as an "authoritative person," accused laggard officials of undercutting reforms by trying to spend their way out of economic malaise, implicitly exempting Mr. Xi from any blame.
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The White House announced Friday the exemption of more than 6900 Chinese products from 2628-percent tariffs imposed by Trump, which followed Beijing exempting pork and soybeans from further tariff hikes.
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On Saturday, as mass protests against that ban were held in various cities, the White House scaled back the reach of the policy, though not by much, exempting legal permanent residents.
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The White House announced Friday the exemption of more than 400 Chinese products from 25-percent tariffs imposed by Trump, which followed Beijing exempting pork and soybeans from further tariff hikes.
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Since World War II, the American tax code has encouraged employers to set up quality health plans for their employees by exempting company health benefit expenditures from income and payroll taxes.
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The final bill says that sanctions will only be applied to projects in which Russian companies hold at least one-third of the shares, while exempting those with lesser Russian participation.
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Mr. Quarles said he supported changes proposed by the Treasury Department, which include relaxing the annual "stress testing" of the largest banks and exempting smaller banks from some kinds of scrutiny.
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In late January the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 63th Circuit said the EPA must reconsider some waivers it gave oil refineries exempting them from the nation's biofuel blending laws.
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Lawmakers included a long list of exemptions to the new law, at times entirely exempting them, while others got a delay for implementation or specific parameters such as quantity of work.
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China's Ministry of Finance announced in a statement Wednesday that it's exempting 1603 types of exported U.S. goods from import tariffs ahead of stalled trade talks resuming with the Trump administration.
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The bill moves to the lower house next week, where conservative lawmakers hope for a renewed push to add measures exempting objectors to same-sex marriage from existing laws against discrimination.
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In March, the United States granted Iraq a 90-day waiver exempting it from sanctions to buy energy from Iran, the latest extension allowing Baghdad to keep purchasing electricity from its neighbor.
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If it can't be simply repealed altogether, exempting Puerto Rico from the law would be an easy way for Congress to boost the island's fortunes at no cost to the average American.
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The California rule not only bans blocking and throttling, but also stops ISPs from zero-rating specific apps like Netflix, which gives them a leg up by exempting them from data caps.
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On Wednesday, several industry groups and farm-state lawmakers complained to the White House about waivers granted to oil refineries, exempting them from their obligation to blend corn-based ethanol into gasoline.
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At a hearing of the House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee, lawmakers voiced particular concern over exempting from the new visa clamp-down some travelers who visit Iran, including those conducting business.
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Biofuel groups are also frustrated with the administration over reports that the EPA was exempting small refineries from the program, including three owned by one of the nation's largest refining companies, Andeavor.
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If you're not familiar with zero-rating, the term refers to carriers exempting certain services, like Spotify and Netflix, from a customer's data plan—meaning unlimited binging with no data cap worries.
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That will affect AT&T's practice of exempting its DirecTV streaming video service from its mobile customers' data limits but not data used by Dish's Sling TV service, and other similar arrangements.
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In March, the United States granted Iraq a 90-day waiver exempting it from sanctions to buy energy from Iran, the latest extension allowing Baghdad to keep purchasing electricity from its neighbour.
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The report, which did not name its source, said Hungary could propose exempting national migration rules from common European policies, trouncing any scheme to share responsibility for migrants among EU member states.
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While exempting Olympic prize money from taxes would not cost the federal government much revenue, the tax base should be broad and lawmakers often want to eliminate special tax exemptions, Pomerleau said.
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AAP's ad highlights the fact that senators, President Trump and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin have raised concerns about the border-adjustment proposal, which would subject imports to U.S. taxes while exempting exports.
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President Donald Trump is studying a Republican proposal in the House of Representatives for a border tax adjustment system that would levy a 20 percent tax on all imports while exempting exports.
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Act 22024 offers low corporate taxes to export businesses that set up shop on the island, while Act 22 aims to attract such entrepreneurs by exempting newcomers from taxes on passive income.
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Among the options Sanders has proposed to pay for his Medicare for All plan is a 7.5% income-based premium that's paid by employers, but exempting the first $2 million in payroll.
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Hatch blasted America's corporate tax rate for being one of the highest in the world and advocated for moving to a territorial tax code, based on domestic profits and exempting foreign income.
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Unnecessary "carve-outs" cause competition for new transmission projects to be limited in certain regions, such as voltage restrictions on projects subject to competitive bidding and exempting certain reliability projects from competition.
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But earlier this year, the government issued a notification exempting foreign nationals from needing special permits to visit more than two dozen islands, including North Sentinel and others inhabited by indigenous people.
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Avoid a border adjustment tax A border adjustment tax, under active discussion by House Republicans, would hit imported products with a 20 percent tax while exempting U.S. exports from the same tax.
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Trump was unclear about exempting American citizens and permanent residents from the ban, leading to panicked crowds congregating in enclosed spaces at many European airports like Charles de Gaulle in Paris, France.
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Earlier on Wednesday, China announced it was exempting 16 types of U.S. products from tariffs, including some anti-cancer drugs and lubricants, as well as animal feed ingredients whey and fish meal.
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To combat this, 30 states, the Washington Post reported, have passed Good Samaritan laws exempting drug users from minor drug violations if they call 911 and stay with a friend who's overdosing.
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The official referred to an order issued by the federal interior ministry exempting personnel involved in banking operations including IT firms supporting banking operations and cash management agencies from the lockdown orders.
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It will be hard for Twitter to become more civil and holistic given that in January it instituted a world leaders policy exempting a certain head of state from any tempering efforts.
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Mississippi passed a law exempting religious objectors from serving LGBT people, but it is unclear from what they are being exempted, since the state has not passed even basic anti-discrimination protections.
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ON TAP TUESDAY II: The House Energy and Commerce Committee's energy and power subpanel will hold a hearing on a bill exempting certain lighting technologies from a Department of Energy efficiency rule.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's finance ministry said it will begin exempting 65 U.S. goods from retaliatory tariffs implemented amid the bilateral trade dispute with the United States for one year starting Feb. 28.
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Policymakers said they were ditching a plan for a border adjusted tax, which would have created a quasi-territorial system by imposing a tax on imports to the US while exempting exports.
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But it is worth noting that Sears was punished by the Medical Board of California last year after it accused him of improperly exempting a 2-year-old from all future vaccinations.
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Last year, lobbyists for Facebook failed in a push for an amendment that would have weakened the biometric law by exempting photo-tagging technologies that are now commonly used on social media.
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Tarullo and Fed Chair Janet Yellen have signaled that stress tests would get easier for banks with less than $250 billion in assets next year by exempting them from the qualitative review.
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For Mattis to be confirmed, the Senate and the House of Representatives both must pass a waiver exempting him from a law written to ensure that the military is under civilian command.
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Exempting ride hailing services from the tax, for example, backfired, and companies like Uber and Lyft led to a slow return to congested roads with 18,000 rides per day, according to city statistics.
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The rules, which the state expected to begin implementing on July 1, cover people 19 to 64 years old, exempting some groups including pregnant women, the medically frail and former foster care youth.
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A 4% "income-based premium" for workers who make more than $29,000 and a 7.5% "income-based premium" on employers (exempting the first $2 million in payroll) are two of the financing options.
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Trump's decision to include Japan as a target for tariffs on its steel exports while exempting several other countries was widely seen as pressure on Japan to agree to a free-trade deal.
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New Delhi recently issued a notification exempting payments to the National Iranian Oil Co (NIOC) for crude oil imports from steep withholding taxes, enabling refiners to clear an estimated $1.5 billion in dues.
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These include the following: While Georgia's "heartbeat" bill has provoked concern that it could be used to prosecute patients for seeking abortions, Missouri's law contains a provision exempting those seeking abortions from prosecution.
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Border adjustability, which would subject imports to U.S. tax while exempting exports, is a key part of the tax plan from House Republicans; it would raise revenue to pay for lowering tax rates.
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President Klaus Iohannis sent that version back to parliament, and lawmakers watered it down by capping the loan value at 250,000 euros ($284,000) and exempting a state subsidy programme for first-time buyers.
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On top of blocking equal marriage, the DUP put a bill forward in 2015 that proposed a permit discrimination against LGBTQ people by exempting those with "strongly held" religious beliefs from equality laws.
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He also tangled with Clinton over a vote he cast in favor of exempting gun manufacturers from civil liability in certain lawsuits, but Sanders has since backed a measure to remove that immunity.
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The J&J devices featured in the documentary were cleared by the FDA under less stringent procedures than its formal approval process, exempting manufacturers from having to submit clinical data on device safety.
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Absent the salary test, virtually every decision an employer makes about covering or exempting employees would be inherently subjective—opening businesses up to greater potential legal liability and leaving workers vulnerable to exploitation.
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TCJA created very byzantine carrots and sticks with names like "GILTI" and "BEAT" to try to temper the movement of income and jobs due to exempting much foreign-sourced earnings from U.S. tax.
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A better solution would be to bring child pornography laws in line with statutory rape laws by exempting teenagers who are close in age and who consensually create, share or receive sexual images.
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Non-OPEC Oman and some OPEC sources have floated the idea of exempting Iran from any output freeze, an approach taken toward Iraq in the past when it was subject to international sanctions.
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Even if one accepts that exempting foreign profits is better than the old system (and many tax experts do), there was no good justification to tax past accumulated foreign earnings at low rates.
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Even officials in Berkeley—who have been some of the strongest proponents of rent control—have proposed transitioning apartments into rent control on a rolling basis, exempting newly constructed buildings for 20153 years.
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The New York State Senate has unanimously passed a bill exempting feminine hygiene products, such as pads and tampons, from sales tax, just a month after the State Assembly did the same. Gov.
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Most concerning, manufacturers are using their lobbying might to push legislation exempting driverless cars from existing safety standards so they can be sold quickly, thus authorizing them to sell now and evaluate later.
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This month, it has ordered the closure of malls, restaurants, coffee shops and public parks and gardens, while exempting supermarkets, pharmacies and food delivery, in a bid to stem the spread of coronavirus.
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"In addition to exempting menthol, the FDA guidance is clear that flavoured products will return to the market once they have been approved through the Premarket Tobacco Product Application (PMTA) process," he said.
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The Senate bill would make it much easier for states to obtain waivers exempting them from certain federal insurance standards, like those that require insurers to provide a minimum set of health benefits.
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The plan would tax American imports while exempting exports in hopes of remedying the myriad challenges that American companies, and the economy at large, face at the hands of the current tax code.
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While some of these laws are robust, many are hampered by weak remedies or a limited scope of application — including the exempting of whole industries like the provision of credit or debt collection.
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SO YOU ARE EXEMPTING THE STATE THAT IS HOME TO THE FESTERING CANKEROUS CONFLICT OF INTEREST THAT THE ADMINISTRATION LIKES TO CALL THE "WINTER WHITE HOUSE" AND NONE OF THE OTHER AFFECTED STATES???????
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Perhaps, far from leading to a more thorough acceptance of migration, this constant demonization of migrants establishes a norm of selective xenophobia where exempting a group of migrants from our tolerance is unremarkable.
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Shortly after his hearing, the Senate Armed Services Committee easily passed a waiver exempting Mattis from a law that requires Defense secretaries to be retired from military service for at least seven years.
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The Foreign Agents Registration Act, which dictates foreign lobbying rules, has a couple of portions that two compliance attorneys told The Hill would likely apply in this case, exempting the association from registration.
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If Trump is really serious about going against his history and combating racism in all forms, anti-Semitism included, he could start with two actions: discard the idea of exempting white terrorists from prosecution.
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Health Secretary Alex Azar is now reportedly considering exempting mint and menthol flavors from the ban, amid warnings from Trump's 2020 campaign team that the ban could have negative political ramifications for the president.
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The bill also places meaningful restrictions on behaviors like "zero rating," a practice that lets deep-pocketed companies buy an unfair advantage by exempting their content from arbitrary broadband usage caps and overage fees.
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The three minor violations involve using 529 savings accounts for homeschooling expenses, exempting colleges with less than 500 students from a new endowment tax, and a technical issue with the language in the legislation.
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Zhuhai Zhenrong is the first Chinese oil company to face punishment since the Trump administration said in April that it would stop exempting several countries, including China, from sanctions on buying oil from Iran.
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Trump's advisers, Congress and industry have been split over a House tax reform proposal that seeks to boost U.S. manufacturing by imposing a 20 percent tax on imports and exempting export revenues from taxation.
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The refugee clause in the order applied only to Muslim Syrian refugees while exempting Christian Syrian refugees -- as if the lives of the hundreds of thousands of Muslim Syrians killed were of no value.
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Exempting battery engines from taxes imposed on diesel and petrol cars has upended Norway's auto market, elevating brands like Tesla and Nissan, with its Leaf model, while hurting sales of Toyota, Daimler and others.
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As Republicans rush to vote on their latest ObamaCare repeal-and-replace plan, it appears to still include an item exempting members of Congress and their staffs from losing the healthcare bill's popular provisions.
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This has led to revisions in the forestry code, in 2012, that favor agriculture, not the environment, by exempting those who illegally deforested before 2008 from having to reforest in accordance with the law.
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Update: The New York State Senate has unanimously passed a bill exempting feminine hygiene products such as pads and tampons from sales tax, just a month after the State Assembly did the same. Gov.
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The Republican tax plan shifts to a territorial system, largely exempting foreign earnings from tax, though it includes a number of complex provisions meant to prevent the kind of evasion that territorial systems encourage.
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During the bubble, government officials worsened the problems by exempting the industry from regulations, and the city sold medallions and ran advertisements promoting the permits as "better than the stock market," The Times found.
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Investigators not only blamed the pilot's poor decision-making for the disaster, but also faulted the FAA for its lack of oversight of smaller balloon companies and for exempting balloon pilots from medical checks.
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The Internet Association, a group whose members include Google, Facebook and Amazon, supported a bill exempting advertising services from being covered by some of the law's restrictions, along with several others tweaking the legislation.
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BEIJING, Feb 21 (Reuters) - China's finance ministry said it will begin exempting 65 U.S. goods from retaliatory tariffs implemented amid the bilateral trade dispute with the United States for one year starting Feb. 28.
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Specifically, it would not report overseas sales revenue—effectively exempting it from the U.S. tax—or costs of imports into the U.S., thereby including the cost of imported intermediates in the 20 percent tax.
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The Washington Post first reported Monday that Republicans are mulling whether to add a provision exempting Mattis from a law requiring Defense secretaries to be out of military service for at least seven years.
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The FCC could uphold the intent of the TCPA — to prevent harassing telemarketing calls — and account for new kinds of communications by exempting a clear class of informational calls from the prior consent requirement.
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Recent administrations have tried to reconcile these inherent conflicts by exempting places known to contain cultural sites from areas permitted for drilling, a practice that has only minimally affected the opportunities for resource exploration.
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Pruitt's expanded use of the waivers, which are intended for small refining operations under financial strain, angered farmers and their legislative backers by exempting some 2.25 billion gallons of ethanol from the U.S. mandates.
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As Vox's Dara Lind explains, the new order is designed to limit some of the chaos the original one created by exempting green card holders and anyone who already had a visa from the ban.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Energy on Wednesday proposed exempting some light bulbs from federal efficiency standards that take effect next year, a move environmentalists said would boost pollution and power bills for consumers.
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Trucks: The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) will consider exempting truck drivers who suffer from poor vision in one eye from rules that would otherwise prohibit them from driving commercial motor vehicles between states.
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Some of these safeguards include exempting the CFPB from the Congressional appropriations process, the inability for the President to fire the Director except for cause, and mandating a fixed five-year term for the Director.
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The administration's attacks could take many forms, from exempting entire categories of federal projects from the review process to giving agencies even more power to toss environmentally responsible alternatives to dirty projects in the trash.
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But as Trump backed away on earlier pledges of tariffs on all countries by exempting imports Canada and Mexico, he signalled Australia could also secure favourable access, a boost the country's only exporter BlueScope Steel.
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Other aspects of the legislation meant to bolster community banks and credit unions include loosening appraisal requirements for certain mortgage loans and exempting firms with less than $2628 billion in assets from the Volcker Rule.
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The Federal Reserve must now decide whether to roll back some Dodd-Frank rules for banks with between $85033 billion and $250 billion in assets, exempting them from stricter capital, liquidity and risk mitigation requirements.
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The double standard that Congress practices, mandating firms to collect demographic data on their employees but exempting this rule for lawmakers themselves, is a key way that racial inequity is produced in the legislative workplace.
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Markus Kerber, a lawyer and professor of public finance who filed a complaint against the asset-purchase programme (APP) last year, is requesting an urgent injunction exempting the Bundesbank from its share of the purchases.
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Those include clarifying the Volcker rule banning banks from making risky trades with their own capital, exempting mid-size regional and community banks from stricter government oversight and reducing the frequency of regulator stress tests.
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In bilateral talks, the United States and Mexico agreed to add a chapter enhancing digital trade, and for Mexico to raise its "de minimis threshold" exempting small shipments from customs inspections and duties to $2628.
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But, as Badger and Sanger-Katz point out, that would have the effect of exempting largely white rural areas, but not urban areas like Detroit or Flint, which have a higher number of black residents.
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With the recent death of federal net neutrality rules, AT&T also has greater leeway to hamstring smaller competitors in a myriad of new, creative ways, including exempting its own video content from usage caps.
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Trade lawyers said that, by exempting Canada and Mexico from the process for reasons related to Nafta, the United States might undermine its legal argument for national security and open itself up to further challenges.
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The department already has sweeping authority exempting it from a wide range of federal regulations that would otherwise limit its ability to build border fencing and access roads, or add sensors and cameras on land.
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Republicans want to do this to help raise revenue that can be poured into important causes like lowering the top tax rate, eliminating the state tax, and exempting multinational corporations' foreign earnings from all taxation.
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A Times investigation has found that the social network gave major technology firms, among other companies, far more access to users' personal data than it had disclosed, effectively exempting those businesses from its privacy rules.
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It would "limit the scope of the Clean Water Act, exempting many oil companies, industrial facilities and developers from programs that aim to protect our rivers, lakes, streams and wetlands from degradation," the group said.
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China has encouraged passengers traveling to and from Wuhan to change their travel plans during the busy Lunar New Year holiday period, by exempting them from service charges for refunds for all modes of transport.
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This included a trip last month to a Texas factory that assembles Apple&aposs newly-released Mac Pro, during which Trump said he was "looking into" possibly exempting Apple from tariffs on imported Chinese goods.
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In Pennsylvania, for example, the General Assembly enacted a law last month exempting police video and audio recordings from the public records law and giving police departments wide latitude to refuse requests for public disclosure.
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The Supreme Court has temporarily allowed the Trump administration to enforce travel restrictions on the nation's refugee program, but it let stand a court order from Hawaii exempting grandparents and other relatives from the ban.
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Section 230 says online companies such as Facebook, Alphabet's Google and Twitter cannot be treated as the publisher or speaker of the information they provide, largely exempting them from liability involving content posted by users.
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The First Circuit decision appears likely to have an impact beyond Massachusetts, in other states that, without explicitly exempting au pairs, offer protections to domestic workers greater than those of the federal au pair regulations.
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"For far too long, wealthy countries have abused the WTO by exempting themselves from its rules through the use of special and differential treatment," Lighthizer, a longtime lawyer for the steel industry, said in July.
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Those include clarifying the Volcker rule banning banks from making risky trades with their own capital, exempting mid-size regional and community banks from stricter government oversight and reduce the frequency of regulator stress tests.
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Other aspects of the legislation meant to bolster community banks and credit unions include loosening appraisal requirements for certain mortgage loans and exempting firms with less than $10 billion in assets from the Volcker Rule.
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The EPA has provided more than two dozen hardship waivers to refineries in recent months - exempting them from the program - in an attempt to help the industry cope with compliance costs, according to an agency source.
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"Exempting hookah products set a terrible precedent and undermine the foundation of the original legislation to protect youth, low income and minority communities from flavored tobacco," the groups said in a letter this week to Hill.
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Senator Chuck Grassley, for example, said on Tuesday he would join lawmakers calling for Pruitt's ouster unless the EPA chief curbs the agency's use of waivers exempting refineries from their obligation to mix ethanol into fuel.
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Trucks: The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is considering exempting dozens of truck drivers with poor sight in one eye from vision requirements that would otherwise prohibit them from operating commercial motor vehicles between states.
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"Exempting Mexico and Canada from the Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum strengthens the agreement and will in turn strengthen the US manufacturing base," said Ann Wilson, who represents the Motor and Equipment Manufacturers Association.
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A federal court on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit by a biofuels trade group that accused the Environmental Protection Agency of unlawfully exempting small refiners from a program that requires they generate a minimum of renewable fuels.
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Mnuchin told the president that, because the U.S. has a $2 billion steel surplus and more than a $25 billion service surplus with Canada, he should consider exempting the nation from the tariffs, ABC News reported.
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He's floated among the financing options a four percent income-based premium on employees and exempting the first $29,000 of income for a family of four, and a 7.5 percent payroll tax that employers would pay.
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The rules exempting companies from securities law violations for the timing and pricing of buyback announcements need to change, said Jackson, who President Donald Trump appointed earlier this year to fill a designated Democratic SEC seat.
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These include ensuring that businesses organized as S corporations don't lose that tax status if their debt is recharacterized as equity, extending the deadline for meeting documentation requirements and exempting more small businesses from the rules.
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Over twenty-seven years, he delivered some fifteen hundred speeches and introduced more than a hundred and fifty bills, but only two passed—one exempting computer equipment from taxation and another approving a controversial cancer drug.
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The insurance commissioner in Washington State did try to stop Samaritan from operating in 2011, saying it was selling "unauthorized insurance," but the state Legislature passed a law explicitly exempting health care sharing ministries from regulations.
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NEW YORK, Jan 30 (LPC) - The US$1trn US leveraged loan market has asked Japanese regulators to consider exempting Collateralized Loan Obligation (CLO) investments from proposed risk-retention rules, concerned the requirement could temper new issuance.
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President Donald Trump won't commit to exempting his business from emergency coronavirus stimulus legislation that Congress is negotiating — an episode that would represent one of the most blatant instances of presidential self-dealing in American history.
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Our recent investigation found that for years Facebook gave tech companies like Netflix and Spotify more intrusive access to users' personal data than it has disclosed, essentially exempting those business partners from its usual privacy rules.
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But as Trump backed away on earlier pledges of tariffs on all countries by exempting imports Canada and Mexico, he signaled Australia could also secure favorable access, a boost the country's only exporter BlueScope Steel (BSL.AX).
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A New York Times editorial made the point succinctly, deeming it monstrous that Congress should lay a tax penalizing individual toil while exempting from this special levy the receivers of income from dividends, interest, or rent.
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Other modifications being considered include: making it clearer which types of funds banks are banned from investing in, permanently exempting some foreign funds from the ban, and anointing a lead regulator to oversee the rule's enforcement.
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New York has spent more than $210 billion to protect this unfiltered water supply since the early 240s, in return for being granted a succession of federal and state waivers exempting it from costly filtration requirements.
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Advocates for exempting wireless providers also pointed out that competition could provide an effective check on wireless company misbehavior: A wireless provider that blocked customer access to certain websites would risk losing those customers to competitors.
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It factors in a 210 percent tariff on all imports of autos and auto parts and retaliation, exempting Canada and Mexico since they have negotiated that in the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement to replace NAFTA.
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In August, Trump told the website Circa that the overtime rule was an example of the type of burdensome business regulations he would seek to roll back as president, perhaps by exempting small businesses or delaying implementation.
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The French president came to the United States with an improbable wish list for the American president, including staying in the Iran deal, keeping American troops in Syria and exempting European countries from steel and aluminum tariffs.
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The group that brought the federal election complaint, Common Cause, claims the payment for Ms. McDougal's story was not a "legitimate press function" and therefore was not protected by rules exempting news organizations from campaign finance regulations.
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The county has a drone business incubator that houses several start-ups and it has a special certificate exempting it from Federal Aviation Administration regulations that limit drone flights to daylight hours and altitudes under 400 feet.
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Another case now before the Supreme Court—that of a baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple—might end up exempting businesses from anti-discrimination laws if they violate owners' spiritual beliefs.
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Federal legislation recently introduced by Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) proposes to eliminate oversight of e-cigarettes by exempting them from tobacco regulations and not requiring FDA approval for the e-cigarette liquid or the vaporizer device.
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The combined company would have an obvious economic interest in exempting such programming from monthly data caps for AT&T subscribers, much as it plans to do with video content from its recently acquired DirecTV satellite business.
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The most telling part of Kavanaugh's dissent, however, is his claim that exempting American workers from US labor laws overseas allows them to compete for jobs with foreign workers, who are not protected by US labor laws.
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Dem proposes exempting veterans from Trump's hiring freeze: Legislation introduced in the House on Monday would exempt veterans seeking employment from the federal government hiring freeze imposed by President Trump in his first week in office. Rep.
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He cited provisions exempting residents from new overtime protections and allowing minimum wage on the island to dip to $4.25 for a period of up to five years, far lower than the U.S. minimum wage of $7.25.
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A keen federalist, he represented the European Parliament in negotiations between Prime Minister David Cameron and other EU leaders in February that led to a deal exempting Britain from the EU's treaty goal of "ever closer union".
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The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids says the provision would classify the device as a vapor product, exempting it from restrictions that apply to cigarettes, such as bans on flavors and marketing at sporting events and concerts.
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The result is that, unlike sales taxes which can accommodate low income consumers by exempting such products as food, clothing, and medicine, corporate taxes allow for no such means of making its disguised sales tax more progressive.
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Dr. Wolt said that there wasn't a strong scientific reason to consider gene-edited plants to be G.M.O.s while exempting crops created in the old way, with X-rays and chemicals producing many random mutations at once.
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But the provision, which would essentially add a 20 percent tax on imported goods while exempting US exports, was the key solution House Republicans had come up with to raise enough revenue to offset corporate tax cuts.
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At the end of August the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed eliminating rules covering both new and existing sources of methane emissions, and exempting companies from routine checks of their transportation and storage facilities for methane leaks.
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The ban was riddled with loopholes, most notably exempting weapons manufactured before the law took effect, so it left more than 1.5 million assault weapons in legal circulation, and owners had little incentive to turn them in.
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Mr. Dollar, who left government to become a consultant for credit unions, said the agency was following the lead of Congress, which passed a law in 1998 exempting credit unions specializing in medallion loans from some regulations.
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The Federal Reserve on Wednesday released a proposal to loosen rules on U.S. banks with less than $28500 billion in assets, exempting dozens of firms from stricter federal oversight under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law.
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"Treasury is exempting even more taxpayers from the unusual underpayment penalties in an effort to help those who attempted in good faith to meet their withholding obligations," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement on Friday.
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President Donald Trump and his Republican party are pushing for a tax reform that could include a border-adjustment measure to satisfy Trump's interest in promoting U.S. manufacturing by taxing imports and exempting export revenues from taxation.
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It was not immediately clear whether under Italian rules Apollo would have to launch a mandatory bid for Carige's outstanding stock, or whether the deal would be considered a rescue, exempting the fund from such an obligation.
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A proposal spearheaded by U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan to boost jobs and the economy by taxing crude imports and exempting exports has fueled expectations for tighter supply into the United States and bolstered WTI.
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By exempting Mexico and Canada from new tariffs, President Donald Trump is hoping to incentivize those nations to strike a fair deal on the North American Free Trade Agreement, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told CNBC on Thursday.
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Substantial BAT revenue is plausible in the near term because imports are currently far larger than exports; as a result, the BAT on imports would raise more revenue than would be lost by exempting exports from tax.
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He urged exempting banks with less than ten billion in assets from the Volcker Rule, and raising the level of assets which put a bank under the jurisdiction of the Financial Stability Oversight Council above $22013 billion.
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The stimulus, representing 21% of gross domestic product (GDP), includes exempting some workers in manufacturing from income tax and giving manufacturing companies a discount on corporate tax payments, Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati told a news conference.
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Opponents of the tradition have won several court victories against it, prompting Republicans in the state legislature to pass multiple laws attempting to preserve it, including a 2015 law exempting Virginia opossums from wildlife protections between Dec.
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Within a year of the law coming into force, a new government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party attempted to amend it by exempting some categories from the need for consent and social impact assessment.
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The DCCC capitalized overnight on an unpopular provision of a new GOP health care amendment, launching ads in 30 Republican districts accusing members of exempting themselves from new waivers that could be added to their health care plan.
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A side letter to the agreement showed that U.S. President Donald Trump preserved the ability to impose threatened 25 percent global tariffs on autos while largely exempting passenger vehicles, pickup trucks and auto parts from Canada and Mexico.
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In an article for the Minnesota Law Review in 2009, Kavanaugh wrote that Congress should pass a law exempting the president from criminal prosecution and investigation while in office, including from questioning by criminal prosecutors or defense lawyers.
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The administration spent more than a month rewriting the executive order -- exempting large categories of foreign travelers and taking care to make no expressed mention of religion -- all in the hopes of avoiding legal scrutiny a second time.
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Exempting firms' wage bills would add an additional subsidy to exporters' rebates, which might cause the plan to run afoul of the rules of the World Trade Organisation (or at least to attract a challenge from other countries).
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House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi proposed altering a 181-year ban on members of Congress wearing headwear on the floor of the House of Representatives last week to "ensure religious expression" by exempting religious headwear, reports ABC News.
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It would also consider measures to mitigate the impact on banks of its negative deposit rate - taken by observers as a reference to a tiered system exempting lenders from paying a charge on some of their idle cash.
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Exempting particular industries or implementing the BAT over a longer period of time make it much more likely that any currency adjustment will be imperfect, which is a threat not only to importers but to exporters as well.
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In December, the SEC provided hope to the market that it was open to exempting BDCs from the AFFE guideline as it added a request for views from the market alongside its broader fund of funds reforms proposal.
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Johnson suggests exempting workers in physically demanding occupations; making the Social Security benefit formula more progressive than it already is to favor low-earners even more; expanding employment services and training and expanding unemployment insurance for older workers.
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The diagnosis resulted in a coveted 21-Y medical deferment that fall, exempting him from military service as the United States was undertaking huge troop deployments to Southeast Asia, inducting about 19723,21972 men into the military that year.
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The order also mentioned several claims in the nineties that would not be covered—meaning Penn State will not be reimbursed by the carrier—because the policy at the time had a specific provision exempting claims of molestation.
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Within a year of the 2013 law coming into force, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government attempted to amend the law by exempting categories such as infrastructure and affordable housing from the need for consent and social impact assessment.
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As Kaufman details, Walker has given his donors a spectacular return on their investment, gutting collective bargaining rights for public-sector unions (exempting firefighters and police officers, who had supported his campaign) and slashing taxes by $8 billion.
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These and other efforts to reduce death rates, such as through gun control and improvement of the health care system, can be done without promoting and subsidizing an unproven technology by exempting automated cars from existing safety regulations.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday the United States is not extending any waivers exempting importers of Iranian oil from U.S. sanctions and there will be no grace period for those economies to comply.
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Uber, a global enterprise whose staff is 62 percent male and whose average driver nets, by one estimate, less than $10 per hour, risks little by exempting only claims of sexual harassment and assault from forced, individualized arbitration.
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But the IG methodically lists the numerous policies Comey violated, policies carefully designed over time to prevent the abuse of authority by those who self-craft a "higher loyalty" in their minds, thereby exempting themselves from the rules.
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The CFPB rightly concluded – after an exhaustive study of more than 400 private class actions over a period of several years – that exempting the financial industry from the normal legal system has had far-reaching — and terrible — consequences.
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The company is preparing for states to argue their lawsuits cannot be stopped because their legal actions were brought to enforce public health and safety laws - exempting them from the usual bankruptcy rules that would pause their complaints.
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Five years ago, Congress passed the sequestration deal, which imposed large spending cuts and then exempting major entitlement programs from those cuts, leading to severe cuts to the kind of federal programs whose dollars tend to stay local.
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The agreement also proposes exempting banks with less than $10 billion in assets from the so-called Volcker Rule which bans banks from speculating in markets with their own capital - despised by lenders for its heavy compliance costs.
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The motion urged the government to renegotiate its financial arrangements with Walt Disney, including the possibility of exempting management fees and royalties for an appropriate period, as well as excluding interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation in calculating the fees.
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Back in October 2015, we had 40 states that were not exempting menstrual products from sales tax; five that had already done away with it, for particular political reasons; and five that just didn't have sales tax at all.
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Prices for the credits known as Renewable Identification Numbers, or RINs, tanked this month after the Environmental Protection Agency decided to grant 20203 biofuel waivers to oil refiners, exempting them from their obligation to blend ethanol into their gasoline.
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For Mattis to be confirmed, the Senate and the House of Representatives both must pass a waiver exempting him from a law written when the Department of Defense was created to ensure that the military is under civilian command.
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SAO PAULO, Oct 5 (Reuters) - A body of the Brazilian securities watchdog granted an appeal exempting retailer GPA SA from paying claims to minority shareholders of its appliance arm Via Varejo SA, according to a securities filing on Thursday.
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Rubio's plan sticks out for focusing less on cutting the top rate (his is 35 percent to Bush's 28 and Trump's 4.13) than on expanding tax breaks, especially for families with children, and on exempting investment income from taxation.
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For example the Treasury and financial supervisors have made the stress tests that banks face less elaborate, and on May 22nd the House passed a bill exempting banks with less than $250bn of assets from some rules (see article).
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A group representing biofuel companies asked a federal judge on Tuesday to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to stop exempting small refineries from renewable fuel laws until a lawsuit challenging the agency's actions is resolved.
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The legal victory may help other asset classes to argue that they should also avoid risk-retention requirements, which was a key argument made by regulators who said that exempting CLOs would drive a freight train through the rule.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives' top tax writer wants a vote this year on legislation moving the United States to a territorial-style tax system aimed at exempting the earnings of American companies abroad from U.S. taxation.
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EPA SIGNS OFF ON RULE EXEMPTING FARMERS FROM EMISSIONS REPORTING: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Tuesday that it is implementing recently passed legislation that exempts farmers from having to report emissions derived from animal waste and other pollutants.
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In 2018, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Utah passed what are known as "carve-out" bills, which lock gig workers into independent contractor status, exempting companies from protections such as minimum wage and hour laws, and unemployment benefits.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States granted Iraq a 90-day waiver exempting it from sanctions to buy energy from Iran, a State Department official said on Wednesday, the latest extension allowing Baghdad to keep purchasing electricity from its neighbor.
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The backdrop: Trudeau said he was prepared to travel to Washington this week in an effort to renegotiate the NAFTA deal, which President Trump demanded as a precursor to exempting Canada and Mexico from planned steel and aluminum tariffs.
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Exactly five years ago, the Supreme Court invalidated a key provision under the landmark Voting Rights Act, exempting nine states — mostly in the South with a history of racial discrimination — from seeking federal approval before changing their voting laws.
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A year later, the committee published its report proposing a number of reforms, including the abolishment of poll taxes, anti-lynching legislation and exempting members of the armed forces from segregation within the military and in society at-large.
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While the bill has other constructive provisions, exempting employers with more than 500 employees and allowing those with less than 50 employees to seek hardship waivers guts the benefits to maintaining worker income that the sick leave provisions include.
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Indrawati said starting April 1 the government would relax several tax rules, including exempting manufacturing companies from having to pay out income tax, allowing delays in payments of import taxes and accelerating refunds on value-added tax in manufacturing.
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While Mr. Pouyanné cannot rule out new sanctions, he and other potential investors were pleased when the Trump administration reapproved waivers, originally signed by the Obama administration, exempting international companies that invest in Iran from certain United States sanctions.
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"Exempting pop culture artists from military service even though they have made a contribution to the country's reputation is not in line with the government's stance to uphold justice and fairness," the ministry said on Thursday, according to Reuters.
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And a catch-all Senate bill, the Agriculture Creates Real Employment Act, incorporates the FARM Act and a host of other bills exempting agricultural producers from a range of sensible standards, including pesticide discharge requirements and migratory bird protections.
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"Exempting lawful permanent residents and current visa holders will not cure the core legal problem -- that the ban was motivated by religious discrimination, as evidenced by the President's repeated statements calling for a Muslim ban," ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt explained.
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WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday the United States is not extending any waivers exempting importers of Iranian oil from U.S. sanctions and there will be no grace period for those economies to comply.
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The appeals court ruled that US District Judge Derrick Watson, in exempting those groups in question, "carefully and correctly balanced the hardships and the equitable considerations as directed by the Supreme Court" in a June order over Trump's executive order.
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For example, the idea of exempting groceries from sales tax sounds simple enough, but most states want to continue collecting taxes on takeout and other prepared foods, on the grounds that having someone else cook for you is a luxury.
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A day after causing uproar in Macedonia by announcing he planned a blanket amnesty over the affair, President Gjorge Ivanov published notices in Macedonia's official gazette exempting former prime minister Nikola Gruevski - a political ally - and other prominent politicians from prosecution.
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It let companies without a robust physical infrastructure thrive during and after the dot-com boom by exempting purchases from sales tax, so long as the seller did not have a physical operation in the state where the customer resided.
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Exempting phones or computers from the tariffs would mean a massive reduction in the scale of the tax, a major concession from the US. That kind of concession is possible, but after years of escalation, angry retaliation seems just as likely.
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The court's Thursday ruling rejected the "memo" that White House counsel Don McGahn sent last week exempting green card holders from the ban — and threw some shade at the "the Government's shifting interpretations of the Executive Order" in the process.
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Meanwhile, state lawmakers in Georgia, Iowa, Tennessee and Florida have pushed bills to boost penalties for blocking roads and highways or trespassing, with the Florida bill also exempting drivers from liability for unintentionally injuring or even killing protestors who do so.
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Saudi Arabia ramped up production to just over 11 million barrels a day in November, just as the Trump administration was about to announce it was exempting India, Japan and South Korea, among others, from full compliance with the Iranian sanctions.
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The UK High Court on Wednesday dismissed a legal challenge brought by Independent Workers Union of Great Britain against London Mayor Sadiq Khan over his decision to extend the 11.50 pounds ($14.36) daily charge to minicabs while exempting black cabs.
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The administration made several deliberate changes designed to hold up better in court, such as dropping Iraq from the list of banned nations, scrapping an indefinite ban on Syrian refugees and specifically exempting legal U.S. residents and certain visa holders.
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The Sanders bill proposes several options for financing the Medicare expansion, including a 303% income-based tax paid by employers, a 4% income-based premium, exempting the first $29,000 in income for a family of four, and eliminating some tax deductions.
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The Sanders bill proposes several options for financing the Medicare expansion, including a 7.5% income-based tax paid by employers, a 4% income-based premium, exempting the first $29,000 in income for a family of four, and eliminating some tax deductions.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency could grant fewer waivers exempting small refineries from the country's biofuel policy as lower prices for blending credits have reduced the cost of compliance, the agency's administrator Andrew Wheeler told Reuters on Thursday.
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Exempting Puerto Rico from the Merchant Marine Act of 1920, or the minimum wage provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act, would only add to the incoherent legal framework that has hindered growth by separating Puerto Rico from the U.S. economy.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The price of ether rose on Thursday after a senior official at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission stated that the cryptocurrency was not a security, thus exempting certain transactions in the token from federal securities laws.
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And the revised ban was substantively different than its predecessor: the most significant change was exempting green card holders and those with valid visas -- the inclusions of which, when combined with a delayed roll-out, avoided any pandemonium at airports.
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According to the ACLU, 36 proposed laws currently sit before 18 state legislatures targeting transgender peoples' rights – bills barring access to appropriate facilities, exempting religious organizations from discriminatory practices, limiting healthcare options, and blocking changes to gender markers on legal identification.
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" Red cape for K Street: "Several people familiar with the process suggested that, despite the declarative statements from Mr. Trump and the official conducting the briefing, the contours of the package, including the possibility of exempting certain countries, could still change.
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On March 12, despite an earlier statement from California governor Gavin Newsom exempting Disney from a general ban on crowd gatherings throughout the state, the company announced that it would close its Anaheim, California-based theme park Disneyland indefinitely as well.
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A destructive bill pending in the Senate would deepen this problem by exempting 85 percent of banks from reporting mortgage data that allows regulators and fair housing groups to ensure that home loans are being issued in a nondiscriminatory way.
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration announced on Friday that it was exempting eight countries from bruising sanctions that the United States was reimposing against Iran, undercutting its pledge to economically punish Tehran's regional aggressions while widening a profound rift with European allies.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. renewable fuel credits fell more than 15% on Friday, traders said, after news the Trump administration plans to appeal a federal court decision that cast doubt on a program exempting small oil refineries from biofuel blending laws.
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Energy minister Gwede Mantashe on Thursday tweaked regulations for generators with a capacity of less than 1 megawatt (MW), effectively exempting them from the need to obtain a licence from the regulator, but the exemption did not include larger generating facilities.
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Graves, who voted against the proposal last year, worked with Shuster on legislative changes designed to better support the GA community, such as exempting all GA users from the new entity's fees and ensuring a more diverse makeup on the board.
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The O.C.C. — which participated in a $185 million settlement deal with Wells Fargo that resolved several government lawsuits — initially let the bank off fairly lightly, exempting it from some of the restrictions normally imposed on banks that break the law.
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The second is a recent announcement by Facebook that it is exempting political figures from its policy forbidding spreading misinformation in advertisements (yes, politicians spreading false claims in their ads is just a part of the political conversation, according to Facebook).
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Trump's EPA has disregarded DOE advice on waivers in the past, according to Reuters reporting, marking a break from the Obama administrations EPA, which had often either adopted energy department recommendations or, when it did not, ruled against exempting oil refiners.
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Citron, one of the experts who advised Facebook on the policy, also said that exempting satire and parody was important, arguing the policy "gives breathing room for deepfakes that contribute to public debate" and marks a step to banning harmful ones.
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"So you are exempting the state that is home to the festering cankerous conflict of interest that the administration likes to call the 'Winter White House' and none of the other affected states?" tweeted Walter Shaub, referring to Mar-a-Lago.
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Trump's EPA has disregarded DOE advice on waivers in the past, Reuters has reported, marking a break from the Obama administration's EPA, which had often either adopted energy department recommendations or, when it did not, ruled against exempting oil refiners.
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In 85033, a carve out was included in the Iran sanctions legislation exempting the Shah Deniz consortium from sanctions that otherwise could have been applied due to the minority participation of NICO, a subsidiary of the Iranian National Oil Company.
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The administration had initially prepared to open the door wider to litigation, exempting only U.S. companies and those from allied countries, but it decided in the end on a more limited approach for now, a person familiar with the discussions said.
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MOSCOW, March 21 (Reuters) - The Russian central bank on Monday softened its stance on a new rule to help de-dollarise the banking system, postponing a requirement to set aside more capital against foreign currency loans and possibly exempting loans to exporters.
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Their plan would cut the top individual income tax rate to 33 percent from 39.6 percent and cut the top corporate rate to 20 percent from 35 percent, financed in large part by a new border adjustment tax hitting imports and exempting exports.
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Trump initially announced the import tariffs of 25% on steel and 10% on aluminum would come into effect in March, but he ended up exempting Canada, Mexico, and the EU. On Thursday, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced those exemptions would end at midnight.
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WASHINGTON, April 11 (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency could grant fewer waivers to small refineries exempting them from the country's biofuel policy, the agency's administrator told Reuters on Thursday, citing lower prices for blending credits that have reduced the cost of compliance.
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A source told Reuters on Friday that the government was looking into proposals such as exempting foreign portfolio investor trusts from recently imposed high taxes, deferring a plan to raise the minimum public shareholding in listed companies and easing of banking credit.
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Pressure from merchant refiners like PBF and Valero to reform the program had already eased in recent weeks as the EPA took unilateral steps, handing out waivers to small facilities exempting them from the RFS, that resulted in significantly lower compliance costs.
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It's a window into why Ryan and his team are pushing for full-blown tax reform, not just cuts, which would be offset (the primary driver: the controversial border-adjustability tax, which would impose a levy on imports while exempting exports entirely).
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They gave a heads up this week that, on May 9, they will release tens of thousands of files detailing "200,000 companies, trusts, foundations and funds incorporated in 21 tax havens, from Hong Kong to Nevada," quietly exempting their clients from tax.
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The decision by Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Heidi Brieger denying Exxon's request for an order exempting it from handing over the documents represents a legal victory for Attorney General Maura Healey, who is investigating the world's largest publicly traded oil company's climate policies.
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At a public forum last month, Dr. Patrick H. Conway, the No. 2 official at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said that "patient and consumer input into this model is critical," and that the administration might consider exempting some doctors.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iowa's Republican Senator Chuck Grassley said the Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency has "screwed" the U.S. ethanol industry and farmers by granting waivers to 31 small petroleum refineries, effectively exempting them from an obligation to use more ethanol in their products.
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Throwing its considerable prestige behind the cause of full sanctions against Burma, exempting food and medicine, would send a clear signal that the international community is serious about ending the ethnic massacres and foreclosing such violence by any government in the future.
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To further assist banks, the RBI will also allow greater flexibility in selling the state utility debt by exempting the bonds from a rule that prevents lenders from selling more than 5 percent of their HTM debt once a year, the sources said.
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The source said the government was looking into policy issues such as exempting foreigh portfolio investor trusts from recently imposed high tax, deferring a proposal to raise minimum public share holding in listed companies to 35% from 25% and easing of banking credit.
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European negotiators also led an effort to forge a compromise exempting older, fuel-guzzling aircraft from the standards until 2028 - five years longer than a competing proposal pushed by U.S. negotiators, according to U.S. and European sources with direct knowledge of the talks.
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Republicans in the House of Representatives had billed the BAT as a more effective way to pay for tax cuts than closing loopholes, because it would raise more than $1 trillion over a decade by effectively taxing imports while exempting exports from taxation.
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With rates in negative territory since 2014, some banks are increasingly complaining about the side effects of ultra-low rates, and ECB chief economist Peter Praet said the bank would look at whether exempting lenders from some of this charge is warranted.
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House Republican leaders are waiting for the President to turn his famous salesmanship skills to the border adjustment tax — a linchpin of Paul Ryan's tax plan that promises to raise more than $1 trillion by raising taxes on imports while exempting exports.
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"Of course, we support requiring future presidents to disclose their tax returns, but exempting President Trump from this requirement makes no sense at all — especially since every previous president for the past four decades has voluntarily disclosed his tax returns," the letter said.
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The company is preparing for states to argue their lawsuits cannot be halted by a Chapter 11 filing because their legal actions were brought to enforce public health and safety laws exempting them from the usual bankruptcy rules that would stop their complaints.
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The company is preparing for states to argue their lawsuits cannot be halted by a Chapter 11 filing because their legal actions were brought to enforce public health and safety laws—exempting them from the usual bankruptcy rules that would stop their complaints.
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CreditCreditAaron P. Bernstein/Reuters For years, Facebook gave some of the world's largest technology companies more intrusive access to users' personal data than it has disclosed, effectively exempting those business partners from its usual privacy rules, according to internal records and interviews.
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Their plan seeks to radically cut corporate taxes (including totally exempting income earned overseas from taxation), to collapse individual tax rates to three (or maybe four — they're not sure yet) brackets, and radically expand the standard deduction and child tax credit for individuals.
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The Labor Department can issue regulations exempting certain companies with fewer than 50 employees from requirements that they offer paid family leave and paid sick leave — an apparent difference from the original legislation allowing exemptions from paid family leave only, advocates said.
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Lawyers from the Pacific Legal Foundation, a libertarian group, will argue on behalf of the freelance groups that a provision of the law known as AB5 exempting freelancers only if they submit fewer than 35 pieces in a year is arbitrary and unconstitutional.
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" Gillian Branstetter of the National Women's Law Center blasted the exemption Wednesday, saying it was "heinous" that the measure was "solely crafted to prevent fictional nonconsensual surgeries on young trans children while exempting actual, quite real nonconsensual surgeries on young intersex children.
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Orange alerts, the second-highest after red in Hebei's three-tier pollution warning system, require companies to take action to cut emissions and in some cases restrict output, although the province has a "positive list" exempting thousands of firms from production cuts.
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"Generally a 'risk on' day after China announced it was considering more stimulus measures to support the economy, such as exempting small- and medium-sized enterprises from paying pension contributions until June," said Marshall Gittler, head of investment research at BS Swiss.
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In December 2018, the SEC provided hope to the market that it was open to exempting BDCs from the Acquired Funds Fees Expenses (AFFE) rule as it added a request for views from the market alongside its broader fund-of-funds reforms proposal.
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While people from Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, Yemen and Iraq would be blocked by a monthlong ban, Mr. Trump appears, inexplicably, to be exempting Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia, home of 15 of the 19 extremists who hijacked the planes on Sept. 11.
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Chloe Colliver, a lead digital researcher at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue in London, told BuzzFeed News that exempting politicians from fact-checking Facebook opens up a hole in information integrity on the platform that President Trump could exploit during an impeachment fight.
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The White House is vowing to veto the bill, warning that it would erode decades-old diplomatic immunity protections — solidified by a 1976 law exempting foreign governments from suits in U.S. courts — thereby subjecting the United States to similar suits around the globe.
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If Trump had the opportunity to say, the Chinese are punishing you and exempting Hillary&aposs voters, why shouldn&apost we fight back against the Chinese, and I wouldn&apost doubt that some of his supporters, despite getting hurt, will continue to support him.
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President Donald Trump and the Republicans are pushing for a tax reform that will likely reduce tax rates and could include a border-adjustment measure that could satisfy Trump's interest in promoting U.S. manufacturing by taxing imports while exempting export revenues from corporate taxation.
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Despite Wednesday's spike in renewable fuel credit prices, they are down sharply since late last year after Trump's EPA handed out an unusually high number of waivers exempting small oil refineries from the RFS on the grounds complying would have caused them financial stress.
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And the plan would lower the top U.S. corporate tax rate from 35 percent, the highest in the industrialized world, to 20 percent, as well as shift to a "territorial" style tax system aimed at exempting the earnings of American companies abroad from U.S. taxation.
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MANILA, May 22 (Reuters) - The Philippines has passed a law exempting gold sales by small-scale miners to the central bank from excise and income taxes to beef up the country's foreign exchange reserves and prevent smuggling, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas said on Wednesday.
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The motion filed Friday argues that the facility "reveals the government's intentional disregard of the binding provisions of the [Flores] settlement" and sets up a question of whether the government's justification for exempting the facility from the rule will hold up to legal scrutiny.
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T-Mobile does this by exempting streaming video on its network so long as a customer agrees to watch the video at a lower resolution, a move called zero-rating that has rankled net neutrality advocates who see it as a form of network prioritization.
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Mnuchin said that border adjustment — taxing imports while exempting exports — as proposed in the House plan "won't work," and that Treasury would release its own economic analysis of tax reform legislation while working with the Congressional Budget Office and Joint Tax Committee on other scores.
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When people use the phrase "not all men," it's a punchline that mocks someone, most likely a man, who tries to deflect valid conversations about topics related to diversity and tolerance (sexism in the workplace, racism, homophobia, etc.) by exempting themselves of any criticism.
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This echoes the views previously stated publicly by recent Trump appointees Kavanaugh (who proposed that Congress should pass a law "exempting" a sitting president "from questioning by criminal prosecutors") and Whitaker (who, The New York Times reports, will not allow the President to be subpoenaed).
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But the deal that could emerge from the frothy mix of agendas may well include a variety of caveats, carve-outs and compromises, resulting in a patchwork of differing wages taking effect at different times in different regions and perhaps even exempting some professions.
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Among other changes, the deal, first reached in March, doubles to 85003,000 the number of cars U.S. automakers can sell in South Korea without meeting local safety standards in exchange for the United States indefinitely exempting South Korea from recently imposed 25 percent steel tariffs.
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The stimulus, representing 0.8% of gross domestic product, includes exempting workers in manufacturing from income tax and giving manufacturing companies a 30% discount on corporate tax payments, both measures to take effect starting April for six months, Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati told a news conference.
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He praised Americans for being neighborly and said he was exempting himself and his handlers from orders to stay home and avoid unnecessary social contact in order to see off the Navy ship Comfort bound to sail for New York from Norfolk, Virginia, on Saturday.
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Related: Once Sworn Enemies, Megyn Kelly and Donald Trump Are Now Sharing Laughs Sykes is also a well-known opponent of abortion rights, and ruled in favor of exempting two companies owned by the Catholic Church from the Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate in 22014.
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Their working ideas include demanding that the assembly gets the right to propose laws rather than just voting on them, committing to carbon neutrality by 2050, and exempting investments in research and innovation from aid limits, according to an internal document seen by Reuters.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said China had made a good gesture in exempting some U.S. anti-cancer drugs and other goods from its tariffs ahead of a planned meeting aimed at defusing a trade war between the world's two largest economies.
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The first thing Republicans had to do was make sure they can pass most of Obamacare repeal with just 51 Senate votes — that is, exempting it from the infamous filibuster, which can block nearly all legislation that doesn't have the support of 60 senators.
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Additionally, "the fact that they are exempting the tank systems is very concerning because there is even less quality control on the tank systems than the closed systems," he said, noting that tank systems are currently a "relatively small" part of the vaping market.
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Environmental groups will also look closely at how the administration explains the impact that exempting large swaths of the nation's waters from pollution limits and penalties will have on the nation's water quality, something they say the administration sidestepped when it proposed the rule.
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It wanted Mr. Trump to declare parts of Somalia to be an area of active hostilities, exempting it from the need to obey special targeting limits, known as the Presidential Policy Guidance, that Mr. Obama imposed in 2013 for counterterrorism strikes outside conventional war zones.
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A tariff-rate cut on at least one set of goods hit by duties would allow the administration to avoid creating lists of winners and losers that would result from exempting specific categories of products from the tariffs, the people briefed on the deal said.
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Despite the overwhelming scientific evidence that sage grouse avoid tall structures such as powerlines because they amplify predation from hawks and eagles that roost on the towers, the BLM undermined protections from powerlines by exempting every single major transmission project under consideration by the agency.
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It would also lower the top U.S. corporate tax rate from 35 percent, the highest in the industrialized world, to 20 percent, as well as shift to a "territorial" style tax system aimed at exempting the earnings of American companies abroad from U.S. taxation.
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With a nod to Republicans in the House of Representatives, the report says Congress should "consider" exempting "well capitalised" banks from all other capital rules, stress tests and the Volcker rule, which bans banks from proprietary trading and from investing in hedge funds and private-equity funds.
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And exempting it from data limits could give its own service an unfair advantage over competitors such as Dish Network's Sling TV or on-demand services like Hulu and Netflix—unless those companies shell out to pay AT&T to have their apps exempted as well.
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A number of fields were redacted by the Labor Department, including the name of the filer, citing two FOIA provisions exempting information the disclosure of which would constitute an "unwarranted invasion of personal privacy," including one exemption that applies to records "compiled for law enforcement purposes."
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Several sources familiar with the conversations said Cohn is cool to a central component of Ryan's tax reform plan, which would pay for lower rates through border adjustment, a concept that would raise more than $1 trillion over a decade by taxing imports while exempting exports.
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BAGHDAD, May 7 (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said on Tuesday there was no link between an initial oil agreement his government was about to sign with Exxon Mobil and its receipt of waivers from the United States exempting it from sanctions on Iran.
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The government was looking into policy issues such as exempting foreign portfolio investor trusts from recently imposed high tax, deferring a proposal to raise minimum public share holding in listed companies to 35% from 25% and easing of banking credit, a source told Reuters on Friday.
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The EU's instruction to curb this privilege, among other things by banning people from possessing semi-automatic weapons, has enraged Swiss on the prickly right, even though their federal parliament has diluted the EU's edict, for instance by exempting members of shooting clubs from such strictures.
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On tax reform, House Speaker Paul Ryan is pushing a comprehensive tax overhaul plan that would cut the top personal rate to 33 percent and the top corporate rate to 20 percent, made possible by a new border adjustment tax that would hit imports while exempting exports.
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Verizon purchased AOL for $4.4 billion, and now it may scoop up Yahoo A Yahoo acquisition also gives Verizon a way to promote more of its own content over competitors', as it did recently by exempting its mobile video app Go90 from its customers' data caps.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has granted a financial hardship waiver to an oil refinery owned by billionaire Carl Icahn, a former adviser to President Donald Trump, exempting the Oklahoma facility from requirements under a federal biofuels law, according to two industry sources briefed on the matter.
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The new law allows companies to pay half or less of the corporate tax rate on profits earned abroad as they would here at home, while also exempting from tax entirely a 10 percent return on tangible investments – such as plants and equipment – that are made overseas.
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Second, instead of keeping Obamacare's huge Medicaid expansion that has almost doubled the number of Americans on the program since 2007, the Trump team could find a way to get more pre-existing condition patients on Medicaid by exempting them from some of the maximum income rules.
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With rates in negative territory since 2014, some banks in northern Europe are increasingly complaining about the cost of this charge on their excess liquidity, and ECB chief economist Peter Praet said the ECB would look at whether exempting them from some of this is warranted.
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After Trump in May signed a bipartisan bill ordering the Fed to loosen parts of Dodd-Frank, the central bank last month proposed a plan to loosen rules on U.S. banks with less than $700 billion in assets, exempting dozens of firms from stricter federal oversight.
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Robert Lighthizer, the government's top trade negotiator, has been charged with helping decide which countries will be excluded, while Wilbur Ross, the commerce secretary, has been tasked with a parallel process for exempting imports of certain products that are not widely available in the United States.
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His five-year plan for oil and gas exploration opened up vast swaths of America's outer continental shelf that had been off limits (while exempting coastal Florida as an apparent political favor to the state's Republican governor, Rick Scott, who was facing a tough re-election bid).
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In a note to customers, Iris Pang, greater China economist at Dutch bank ING, pointed out that China had been considering exempting these items since May, and that they didn't really represent a genuine "gesture of sincerity towards the U.S." ahead of talks in Washington next month.
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The Pentagon wanted Mr. Trump to declare parts of Somalia to be an area of active hostilities, exempting it from the need to obey special targeting limits, known as the Presidential Policy Guidance, that President Barack Obama imposed in 2013 for counterterrorism strikes outside conventional war zones.
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"Of course, we support requiring future presidents to disclose their tax returns, but exempting President Trump from this requirement makes no sense at all -- especially since every previous president for the past four decades has voluntarily disclosed his tax returns," the letter said: http://bit.ly/2qfUzP9.
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The U.S. is temporarily exempting more than 400 types of Chinese products that were hit in last year's $113 billion worth of import tariffs, as negotiators for both sides meet again in Washington on Friday to lay the groundwork for next month's higher-level trade talks.
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There were some signs of progress this month, with China exempting some US products from tariffs and Washington responding by delaying further tariffs of its own from October 1 -- which could have been humiliating for Beijing and would likely have drastically escalated hostilities -- to October 15.
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Sources told Reuters the BOJ was set to discuss exempting some funds from the negative rates, after the securities industry warned that investment money would be driven into bank deposits, which would not help Abe's hopes of getting cash put to more productive use to boost the economy.
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And the "Wall Street Journal," for instance, had a map in the week on how the Chinese are very precisely targeting tariffs at counties that were carried by Donald Trump through the Midwest and the south, farmers and what not, and exempting the counties that voted for Hillary Clinton.
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Even in major, central cities, many art makers — including some successful ones — live near or below poverty lines, their creativity perhaps contributing to their quality of life in some ways but not exempting them from a system in which art translates as market capital only for a lucky few.
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Netflix is siding with T-Mobile on exempting certain mobile traffic from data plans T-Mobile, which launched Binge On in November, automatically turned the service on for every one of its customers, letting them enjoy streaming video from Netflix and others without it counting against their monthly cap.
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The union said it would appeal the ruling, which upheld a decision by London's mayor Sadiq Khan against exempting private hire drivers - a majority of whom are from ethnic minorities - from the charge while drivers of London's traditional black cabs, who are mostly white, do not pay it.
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That would require nontrivial tax increases, but nothing like the huge hikes that a traditional single-payer plan would require; you could hike the Medicare payroll tax by a few points (maybe exempting poverty wages) and raise estate and income taxes for the rich and easily cover it.
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Pai's most high-profile action on Friday was to close the FCC's inquiry into zero-rating, the controversial telecom industry practice of exempting certain internet services from monthly data caps, effectively favoring those services by providing consumers with an economic incentive to use them instead of rival offerings.
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"By exempting a significant chunk of bank deposits from the negative deposit rate and making its offer of long-term liquidity for banks even more generous, the ECB is mitigating the impact of a negative deposit rate on bank balance sheets," said Florian Hense, an economist at Berenberg.
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In the run-up to the elections, it has dished out money in all directions, including a one-off extra pension payment for the elderly, exempting workers up to the age of 28 from income tax and, from October 250st, lowering the income tax rate from 22% to 17%.
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In alignment with this new paradigm, policymakers simplified the Federal Acquisition Regulation in 1994 and 1995, exempting "commercial items" from a large portion of the rules (as well as expanding the definition of what is a commercial item to include goods that could be seen as specialized military goods).
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But Mr. Trump pressed his complaint that the trade relationship between the United States and Europe was "unfair," and Ms. Merkel made clear that the president had not made the commitment she was seeking — permanently exempting the European Union from the steel and aluminum tariffs he imposed in March.
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On Wednesday, appearing with Burritt on CNBC, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said the White House is not trying to "blow up the world" with its tariffs, and indicated that Trump would be open to exempting U.S. trading partners Canada and Mexico if a reworked NAFTA can be reached.
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The rule addresses the protection of personal data shared outside the E.U. By exempting so many of its members from the new regulation, Facebook would limit its liability under the new rule, which allows for fines of up to 4 percent of a company's global annual revenue for violations.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement on trade will preserve President Donald Trump's ability to impose threatened 25 percent global tariffs on autos while largely exempting passenger vehicles, pickup trucks and auto parts from Canada and Mexico, a side-letter to the agreement showed on Monday.
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Modifications being considered include: scrapping the presumption that short-term trades are proprietary unless banks prove otherwise, making it clearer which types of funds banks are banned from investing in, permanently exempting some foreign funds from the ban, and anointing a lead regulator to oversee the rule's enforcement.
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That would require nontrivial tax increases, but nothing like the huge hikes that a traditional single-payer plan would require; you could hike the Medicare payroll tax by a few points (maybe exempting poverty wages) and raise estate and income taxes for the rich and easily cover it.
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Among the measures put forward: exempting residents from new overtime protections, cutting the minimum wage to $4.25 an hour for five years (far lower than the U.S. minimum wage of $7.25 that all Democrats now agree is a poverty-level wage), drastically reducing pensions, raising taxes, and privatizing public assets.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a last-ditch effort, five U.S. Senate Democrats are urging President Donald Trump to veto a resolution that would repeal a Labor Department rule designed to help cities launch retirement savings plans for low-income private-sector workers by exempting such programs from strict federal pension protection laws.
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The finance ministry and central bank have analysed ways to make the levy less painful, and have considered untying the tax from market rates or linking it to a different reference point, as well as exempting assets from the levy, such as state treasuries or funding lines from international lenders.
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People who lived through bruising congressional debates that ended up killing even a weak public option and exempting auto dealers from Consumer Financial Protection Bureau oversight knew that there was simply no way Democrats were going to spend 2017 enacting a single-payer health care system and breaking up big banks.
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LEADING THE DAY Fed releases plan to loosen rules for major US banks: The Federal Reserve on Wednesday released a proposal to loosen rules on U.S. banks with less than $700 billion in assets, exempting dozens of firms from stricter federal oversight under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump has directed members of his Cabinet to review the administration's expanded use of waivers exempting small refineries from the nation's biofuel policy, after hearing from farmers angry about the issue during his recent Midwest tour, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has granted a financial hardship waiver to an oil refinery owned by billionaire Carl Icahn, a former adviser to President Donald Trump, exempting the Oklahoma facility from requirements under a federal biofuels law, according to two industry sources briefed on the matter.
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"No matter what form (of tiering) you propose, you are exempting banks with a certain business model from the costs of negative rates and you are implicitly telling all banks with a different business model that they will bear these costs for longer," the Dutch central banker Klaas Knot told reporters.
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SEOUL, South Korea — The United Nations Security Council has approved a plan by North and South Korea to conduct a joint field study on connecting their railways, exempting the project from the extensive sanctions the U.N. has imposed on the North over its nuclear weapons program, officials said on Saturday.
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"Exempting Canada and Mexico is a good first step, and I urge the White House to go further to narrow these tariffs so they hit the intended target – and not U.S. workers, businesses, and families," House Ways and Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, who, like Trump, is a Republican, said in a statement.
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"Over the years, proponents of exempting pesticide spraying from the Clean Water Act have used the crisis of the day as the reason to support their legislation," Representatives Peter A. DeFazio, Democrat of Oregon, and Grace F. Napolitano, Democrat of California, wrote in a letter urging colleagues to oppose the Republican bill.
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The firm also negotiated with 26 lenders led by Royal Bank of Canada and TD Bank for a clause exempting the firm from paying a 2 percent penalty on funds drawn from up to C$5 billion in construction loans if it halted the project because of political problems, the documents show.
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This provision provides important relief from the annual cap on H-85033B visas by exempting an H-2B worker from the current fiscal year's cap if they have worked for the petitioning employer during the previous three years, allowing employers to rely on workers who have previously utilized the H-2B program.
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Though Mr. Trump stepped back from plans to impose tariffs on every nation — exempting, for the time being, Canada and Mexico — he did so while exerting additional pressure: He emphasized that tariffs could ultimately land on both countries unless they bend to American demands in renegotiations of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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What the bill includes: • Raising the threshold for "systemically important" banks to $250 billion in assets, up from $213 billion • Exempting firms with less than $10 billion in assets from the Volcker rule But the House may want a more aggressive version that would curtail the power of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky and seven other states are seeking waivers from federal law to initiate the policy, and the agency says it is ready to grant them the waivers in the coming days if the states meet certain minimal conditions, like exempting people who are pregnant, disabled or caring for family members.
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New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, California, Louisiana, and Ohio have all issued stay-at-home orders at the beginning of this week or last, but each has a specific stipulation pertaining to houses of worship, either designating them as "essential," saying that they are not ordered to be closed, or exempting them from penalties.
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U.S. District Philip Gutierrez on Friday said a provision of the law known as AB5 exempting freelancers only if they submit fewer than 35 pieces in a year was not based on the content of their speech, so it did not violate their rights under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
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After days of political brinksmanship, the Israeli Parliament's Ministerial Committee for Legislation has agreed that a preliminary vote on a bill exempting ultra-Orthodox Jewish students from serving in the army will be free, meaning that parties can vote any way they want without it being a test of loyalty to the government.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency defended his agency's expanded use of waivers exempting refineries from the country's biofuel law during a closed-door meeting with farm state senators last week, arguing the program has had no negative impact on ethanol demand, according to four sources with knowledge of the meeting.
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And in Jackson, Mississippi the organization posted the sign posted below in protest of the state's Religious Freedoms Bill allowing people to cite religious objections exempting them from having to offer wedding services or employment, among other things, to LGBT people Planting Peace told Mashable that the Ohio billboard will remain up for one month.
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"No matter what form (of tiering) you propose, you are exempting banks with a certain business model from the costs of negative rates and you are implicitly telling all banks with a different business model that they will bear these costs for longer," Klaas Knot, who sits on the ECB's Governing Council, told reporters.
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Whether it's Comcast's wireless service charging you more money just to watch HD video, or AT&T exempting its own content from usage caps while penalizing competitors, ISPs are eager to craft a new, fractured internet where an ISPs own content—or the content of their wealthiest partners—are given a distinct market advantage.
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What the Cruz and Rubio proposals also have in common is that, to varying degrees, they would shift from the century-old progressive income tax system — which generally taxes wages and investments at rates that increase with taxpayers' income — to one focused on taxing consumption, and exempting investment income including dividends, capital gains and interest on savings.
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In an absolutely scathing letter sent to the FCC on Thursday, AT&T essentially told the nation's top telecom regulator to, um, go fly a kite, after the agency reached a preliminary conclusion earlier this month that the broadband giant's practice of exempting video content from its DirecTV subsidiary for mobile subscribers is anticompetitive and harmful to consumers.
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Less energy is devoted to debating the death penalty's supposed purposes of deterrence and retribution; more discussion, and litigation, revolves around peripheral issues like exempting children and the intellectually disabled from capital punishment, the relative roles of juries and judges in issuing death sentences, and the constitutionality of certain execution methods that may cause suffering before death.
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What they're saying: "They are picking winners and losers in the marketplace while handing a government monopoly to other channels of trade," the National Association of Convenience Stores said, per AP. Some public-health advocates are also mad, criticizing the FDA for not banning flavored products outright, and for exempting mint and menthol flavors from its new rules.
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Wyoming has been the most aggressive in passing blockchain-friendly legislation, passing five laws: declaring that "utility tokens" would not be regulated under state securities laws, exempting cryptocurrencies from property taxes, adjusting its money transmitter regulation to accommodate cryptocurrency exchanges, allowing LLCs to register on a blockchain, and enabling the secretary of state to register companies on a blockchain.
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The unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit agreed with several Native American tribes and the Natural Resources Defense Council, which argued that the FCC had acted arbitrarily in exempting small cell sites from the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act and the National Historic Preservation Act.
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WASHINGTON, July 30 (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency defended his agency's expanded use of waivers exempting refineries from the nation's biofuel law during a closed-door meeting with farm state senators last week, arguing the program has had no negative impact on ethanol demand, according to four sources with knowledge of the meeting.
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HOUSE TEES UP TECH BILLS: The House Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Communications and Technology announced that it would hold a hearing next Tuesday on four technology-related bills, including one banning the FCC from regulating broadband rates under its net neutrality rules and another permanently exempting small business from certain parts of the rules.
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So Macron was stunned when his royalist, let-them-eat cake, top-down approach produced a vicious backlash after he cut taxes for the wealthy and corporations and sought to pay for some of it with taxes on diesel fuel and pensions — without exempting the rural working classes, which have no mass transit and need to drive everywhere.
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While the New York city officials' actions seem drastic for the city that never sleeps, he notably follows in the footsteps of France, whose Prime Minister Edouard Philippe on Saturday announced that all restaurants, movie theaters and stores would shutter in an attempt to stop the coronavirus from spreading, exempting necessities like pharmacies, banks, supermarkets, and the like.
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Should the Commission move forward with this proposal, exempting small providers from any new rules would serve the public interest by ensuring that the cost of service does not dramatically and unnecessarily increase and that important upgrades and investments in broadband deployment continue; moreover, doing so would prevent unnecessarily driving smaller operators out of the market.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFive environmental fights to watch in 2020 Lawmakers close to finalizing federal strategy to defend against cyberattacks The 7 big Supreme Court cases to watch in 85033 MORE is expected to announced a ban on certain flavors of cartridge-based e-cigarettes while reportedly exempting the types of devices most commonly found in vape shops.
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"Furthermore, the Department also finds that exempting such persons from well-established mental health, physical health, and sex-based standards, which apply to all Service members, including transgender Service members without gender dysphoria, could undermine readiness, disrupt unit cohesion, and impose an unreasonable burden on the military that is not conducive to military effectiveness and lethality," Mattis wrote.
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"On behalf of the over six million veterans nationwide who rely on the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare system, we are writing to respectfully request that you provide guidance indicating that exempting VA direct patient care providers is consistent with the tenants of and latitude permitted in your January 23rd Executive Order pertaining to a Federal civilian employee hiring freeze," they wrote.
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"On behalf of the over six million veterans nationwide who rely on the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare system, we are writing to respectfully request that you provide guidance indicating that exempting VA direct patient care providers is consistent with the tenants of and latitude permitted in your January 85033rd Executive Order pertaining to a Federal civilian employee hiring freeze," they wrote.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFive takeaways from the Democratic debate As Buttigieg rises, Biden is still the target Leading Democrats largely pull punches at debate MORE on Wednesday toured an Apple manufacturing plant in Texas with company CEO Tim Cook, where he demurred on the possibility of exempting the tech giant from tariffs, pointing to the need to sustain a balanced playing field.
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Yet, members of Congress, encouraged to do so by auto and tech lobbyists, have proposed bipartisan bills that would let industry roll out automated cars more quickly by exempting them from existing safety regulations, like those that govern the performance of steering wheels, airbags and brakes, and by directing the Department of Transportation to come up with new rules instead.
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But the 9th Circuit, like the 4th Circuit in the AACP case, homed in on the 13 amendment exempting private companies from TCPA liability when they are engaged in the collection of debt owed to the U.S. The 9th Circuit said that exemption showed the TCPA's bar on automatically dialed calls was content-based and unconstitutional under the First Amendment.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpWhistleblower complaint declassified on eve of high-stakes testimony Ocasio-Cortez on impeachment: 'I think the ground has shifted' Democrats ask Pentagon to probe delayed Ukraine aid MORE in 2017 signed a bipartisan expansion of GI Bill benefits for veterans and issued an executive order in August exempting roughly 50,000 disabled veterans from federal student loan payments.
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But the 2013 version of his single-payer proposal — the only existing single-payer bill in the Senate — says "nothing in this Act shall affect the eligibility of veterans for the medical benefits and services" provided through the VA. An aide to Sanders confirmed that the provision exempting the VA from the new single-payer insurer will remain in the upcoming bill.
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The original executive order was swiftly blocked nationwide by a federal judge in Seattle, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals refused to reinstate it, and then the administration spent over a month rewriting it, exempting several categories of foreign travelers and taking care to make no express mention of religion -- all in the hopes of avoiding legal scrutiny for a second time around.
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Exempting air medical services from the ADA would give states the authority to regulate a wide range of issues in relation to the aviation aspects of a licensed carrier — including where and when they are able to fly — creating borders in the sky; severely impacting aircraft safety; and creating a patchwork of regulations and requirements on an industry that flies across state lines on a daily basis.
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In the past, politicians sought to allay those concerns by exempting from the legislation any valuables taken by the Nazis in World War II. Some restitution groups are satisfied that the latest version exempts the descendants of the owners of art looted in World War II because it will not shield works looted from 1933 to 1945 by the German military or its allies.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's trade adviser Peter Navarro says that he doesn't have any knowledge about conversations between Trump and Apple CEO Tim Cook on allegedly exempting the iPhone from future U.S. tariffs.
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Harry ReidHarry Mason Reid85033 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care Reid says he wishes Franken would run for Senate again Panel: How Biden's gaffes could cost him against Trump MORE (D-Nev.) used the Nuclear Option to rid the Senate of the filibuster on judicial nominations exempting the Supreme Court, it was understood by insiders that the Supreme Court exemption made zero sense.
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" Mattis wrote in a recommendation to Trump included in a court filing Friday that the Pentagon found that "exempting such persons from well-established mental health, physical health, and sex-based standards, which apply to all Service members, including transgender Service members without gender dysphoria, could undermine readiness, disrupt unit cohesion, and impose an unreasonable burden on the military that is not conducive to military effectiveness and lethality.
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Roger WilliamsJohn (Roger) Roger WilliamsPopulation shifts set up huge House battleground The 85033 Republicans who voted with Democrats to block Trump from taking military action against Iran The Hill's 12:30 Report: Dems aim to end anti-Semitism controversy with vote today MORE (R-Texas), who owns an automobile dealership in his home state, offered an amendment exempting such businesses from a pending surface transportation bill in Congress.
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Sanders has acknowledged that the middle class would see their taxes go up to help pay for the plan -- one of his options for financing it would levy a 4% tax on employees, exempting the first $29,000 in income for a family of four -- but he argues that many would still come out ahead because they would no longer have to pay for private insurance or for medical care.
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To pay for the newest version of his plan, Sanders has suggested several potential options, which his office listed as: • Creating a 4% income-based premium paid by employees, exempting the first $29,000 in income for a family of four • Imposing a 7.5% income-based premium paid by employers, exempting the first $2 million in payroll to protect small businesses • Eliminating health tax expenditures • Making the federal income tax more progressive, including a marginal tax rate of up to 70% on those making above $123 million, taxing earned and unearned income at the same rates, and limiting tax deductions for filers in the top tax bracket • Making the estate tax more progressive, including a 77% top rate on an inheritance above $1 billion • Establishing a tax on extreme wealth • Closing the "Gingrich-Edwards Loophole" • Imposing a fee on large financial institutions • Repealing "corporate accounting gimmicks" Sanders argues people would save money because they would no longer have to pay copays, monthly premiums or deductibles.
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"The plans to export electricity and gas and hopefully oil continue and we are ready to expand these contacts not only for the two countries but also for other countries in the region," Rouhani said in remarks carried by state TV. In March, the United States granted Iraq a 90-day waiver exempting it from sanctions to buy energy from Iran, the latest extension allowing Baghdad to keep purchasing electricity from its neighbor.
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Sherrod BrownSherrod Campbell BrownThe Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape Dayton Democrat launches challenge to longtime GOP rep Dayton mayor: Trump visit after shooting was 'difficult on the community' MORE (D-Ohio), a progressive leader and possible vice presidential pick, has also spoken out against certain provisions affecting Puerto Rico's minimum wage and exempting the territory from a recent Labor Department rule expanding overtime payments to thousands of employees.
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It would create a "stability fund" to help states reduce premium costs for those with pre-existing conditions; repeal a 22019 percent tax on medical devices; overhaul the employer mandate by exempting businesses with fewer than 500 employees, up from the current 50-employee threshold; and make technical changes encouraging states to "experiment" in new ways to reduce costs and offer more coverage options, including efforts to sell plans across state lines.
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It would create a "stability fund" to help states reduce premium costs for those with pre-existing conditions; repeal a 28500 percent tax on medical devices; overhaul the employer mandate by exempting businesses with fewer than 6900 employees, up from the current 2628-employee threshold; and make technical changes encouraging states to "experiment" in new ways to reduce costs and offer more coverage options, including efforts to sell plans across state lines.
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First, by referring to "Americans who have undergone appropriate screenings," he did not make clear that US citizens can return from Europe even if they have not been screened before they take off for the US. The screening comes after they land in the US. Second, Trump did not mention that he is exempting a variety of non-US citizens, including permanent US residents and certain family members of both citizens and permanent residents.
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More on this... Kavanaugh's staunch gun-rights defense among hundreds of decisions in spotlight Brett Kavanaugh, Trump's pick for court, has left trail of opinions on health care and pharma issues Kavanaugh nod touches off Supreme Court confirmation battle; Dems warn of 'deaths of countless women' "Congress might consider a law exempting a President—while in office—from criminal prosecution and investigation, including from questioning by criminal prosecutors or defense counsel," Kavanaugh wrote in the journal.
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Mike CrapoMichael (Mike) Dean CrapoA US-UK free trade agreement can hold the Kremlin to account Oversight Republicans demand answers on Capital One data breach On The Money: Fed cuts rates for first time since financial crisis | Trump rips Fed after chief casts doubt on future cuts | Stocks slide | Senate kicks budget vote amid scramble for GOP support MORE (R-Idaho) is focused on exempting dozens of banks from stricter federal oversight, it also rolls back restrictions on lending across the financial sector.
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