These surcharges can make Visa's cards less attractive to consumers, but the flip side is that lowered fees can discourage surcharges.
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Some states banned the surcharges, while some others capped the surcharges at a lower level, or between 10 percent and 40 percent.
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Smokers facing medium surcharges had increases in their health coverage that was 4.3 percentage points lower than smokers who faced no surcharges.
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After Obamacare took effect, smokers facing the higher surcharges had increases in their insurance coverage that was about 12 percentage points lower than smokers who faced no surcharges.
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However, Emirates does charge very high fuel surcharges on award flights, and you can "move up" one cabin class with an upgrade, with no additional fuel surcharges involve.
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"Fuel surcharges have vanished from container shipping carriers," he said.
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It also can help avoid Medicare's high income premium surcharges.
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Surcharges by machine owners are now an average of $19693.
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For Part D, the surcharges range from $12.20 to $76.40.
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The new base rate will be 22% (25.2% with surcharges).
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But then you'll also have a bunch of hidden fees like fuel surcharges, or "remote area surcharges" of up to 30 percent that will be sent 30 days later, after you've charged your customer.
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The surcharges are estimated to be between 1.0 to 4.5 percent.
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Yet, not all carriers will remove or cut their fuel surcharges.
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It has also raised shipping rates and added peak-season surcharges.
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Instead, private jet owners pay other taxes, such as fuel surcharges.
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As far as I can tell, there are no ticket surcharges.
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There are court-imposed surcharges associated with any plea, Tuttle said.
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In Ohio, all told, there are 118 different fees and surcharges.
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Some consumers might not be made whole for the premium surcharges.
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Premiums for high-income seniors - who already pay surcharges - also would rise.
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However, vessel operators are adding price surcharges to freight contracts, it said.
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There will also be surcharges for special formats like 4DX and IMAX.
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If not, will there be surcharges for going to a rival pharmacy?
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Taxes and surcharges make up to 27 percent of every electric bill.
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The surcharges are added to rates that may already be quite hefty.
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Dozens of states attorneys general have been investigating resort fees and surcharges.
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A round-trip direct flight was about $561 with taxes and surcharges.
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In addition, 14 percent used surcharges in states that completely prohibit them.
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As an economic matter, the prohibited surcharges and permitted discounts are identical.
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It has also raised shipping rates and added 2018 peak-season surcharges.
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They also have levied surcharges on retailers for residential addresses and rural deliveries.
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But most of the products likely to attract big surcharges would be gone.
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These new surcharges are aimed "precisely at solving those pain points," he said.
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Affluent seniors who pay high-income Medicare premium surcharges also are not protected.
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Next holiday season: UPS has plans to raise the surcharges next holiday season.
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Just beware of fuel surcharges if you fly British Airways across the Atlantic.
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Soon, his monthly income decreased, as D.F.A. deducted marketing surcharges and other fees.
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We're told he was sentenced to 2 years probation and fined $500 ... plus surcharges.
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Simone Gorrindo, an editor, talked AT&T out of roughly $400 in data surcharges.
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Gone are the punitively high surcharges and obfuscatory booking systems designed to trick customers.
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Higher-income beneficiaries, though, have paid more for premiums since 2007 through monthly surcharges.
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The surcharges will pay farmers $10 per ton of carbon removed from the atmosphere.
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The Prices: Rides in New York are based on time, distance, tolls and surcharges.
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For the plans, this may be achieved by requiring benefit modifications or employer surcharges.
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A new discounted rate of 15% (17.2% with surcharges) is supposed to attract manufacturers.
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Peak hour surcharges are ridiculous, but I hate being late so I call a Grab!
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In other cases, heavily discounted flights are the result of missing fuel surcharges on tickets.
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Health plans also would add surcharges averaging 12.4% if cost-sharing reduction subsidies are nixed.
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Shallow water means vessel operators impose surcharges on freight rates, increasing costs for cargo owners.
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Low water means vessel operators impose surcharges on freight rates, increasing costs for cargo owners.
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UPS could make $200 million in revenue off the surcharges this year, per Moody's forecasting.
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Community ISPs also tend to offer clearer pricing with fewer hidden surcharges, the study found.
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While Iberia does pass along fuel surcharges, they are low (under $100) on these routes.
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New Jersey Economic Development Authority, $567.2 million of motor vehicle surcharges subordinate revenue refinancing bonds.
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When oil prices hit record highs a decade ago, airlines added fuel surcharges to tickets.
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The surcharges that merchants impose can pass the cost of the "swipe fees" on to consumers.
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Higher fuel surcharges and workers' compensation contributed 10 cents per share to earnings in the quarter.
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Other jurisdictions have also implemented policies and surcharges to reduce foreign ownership in their residential markets.
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Relying heavily on fines and surcharges to fund municipal government also has consequences for public safety.
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When jet fuel prices hit near-atmospheric levels in 2628, airlines began imposing surcharges on baggage.
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They have raised the minimum wage, cut crisis-time tax surcharges and reintroduced four public holidays.
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At the very beginning of 2010, very few airlines were adding surcharges for busy travel times.
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Others, however, will pay more than the standard due to income-adjusted surcharges (see tables below).
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But with a proliferation of options and surcharges, you're justified in feeling more confused than ever.
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That included 15 percent surcharges above the original cost of the contracts, Judge Ercolini added. Mrs.
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The effective corporate tax rate for companies will be around 270.91%, inclusive of surcharges, she said.
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High-income Medicare enrollees have been paying surcharges on Part B and Part D premiums since 2007.
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But "those facing low (but nonzero) surcharges were significantly less likely to quit smoking," the authors wrote.
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The app noted on its "Fares" page that "Actual fares and surcharges may vary" from the estimate.
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FedEx on Friday also updated its surcharges on some U.S. and international packages, effective September and January.
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Meanwhile, the California Public Utilities Commission is already collecting billions each year from existing surcharges on consumers.
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The program uses your tax return from two years earlier to determine whether you'll pay monthly surcharges.
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Utilities in turn argue for hefty solar surcharges to maintain the reliability and affordability of the system.
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The two companies also calculate the take rate slightly differently, with Uber factoring in tolls and surcharges.
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So you don't have to worry about surcharges showing up on your statement after a trip abroad.
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Spending day after day breaking down the miracles and tragedies of human existence into costs and surcharges?
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It will cost up to $1 billion, raised from certain visa fee surcharges over the next decade.
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In the 1970s, he helped draft the legal justification for imposing import surcharges during the Nixon administration.
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The funding will come from the FCC's Universal Service Fund, which comes from surcharges on telephone service.
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Progressive applied surcharges to every quote except in cities where their use is prohibited by state law.
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Some states have blanket prohibitions on such surcharges in certain situations — say, if one car is parked.
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The burden is piled on, as interest, surcharges and collection fees are added to unpaid court costs.
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The surcharges that merchants impose can pass the cost of the "swipe fees" on to consumers and are worth billions of dollars a year to credit card companies The New York law subjects merchants to a potential one-year prison sentence and $500 fine for imposing credit card surcharges.
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Companies often also require membership ahead of the procedure and may apply surcharges for people outside the country.
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This year UPS rolled out peak season surcharges for residential packages, and has already announced increases for 218.69.
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The higher surcharges and premiums for smokers are discouraging people, especially young people, from enrolling in ACA plans.
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And the bags themselves are threatened by proposed legislation to ban them or impose surcharges on each bag.
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Cellphone roaming charges can also add up quickly, and single-occupancy cabins are usually subject to hefty surcharges.
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But surcharges push this above 35%, on top of which companies are taxed on the dividends they pay.
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"Tobacco use surcharges can help offset higher health care costs for tobacco users," Pesko said in an email.
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But studies don't show whether tobacco surcharges are effective as a financial incentive for employees to stop smoking.
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In the Washington, D.C., area, Reagan National and Dulles International airports are bumping up their ride-hailing surcharges.
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The study also found that as surcharges increased they had a bigger effect on dampening enrollment among tobacco users.
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True to conservative principles, the cost was borne not by the state government but as surcharges on electric bills.
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But the industry is facing mounting consumer and political pressure as some airlines seem slow to unwind fuel surcharges.
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The surcharges on start at $85,000 in annual modified adjusted gross income for individual filers ($170,000 for joint filers).
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These surcharges could take a bigger bite out of present and future retirees' income than they may have expected.
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Fuel surcharges, which can be applied to some international tickets, could drive up the cost of a ticket, too.
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Under the proposed scheme, a person making the declaration would have to pay 50 percent in taxes and surcharges.
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As part of the bill, PG&E will be able to issue bonds backed by surcharges from its customers.
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And I simply can't rely on private shippers, who charge large surcharges for pickup and delivery to rural areas.
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On many airlines, Air Canada passes along fuel surcharges, which can add hundreds of dollars to your redemption cost.
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Taxes and surcharges make up a higher share of pump prices in Europe, so the effect is less marked.
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That's before you factor in the hidden fees and usage surcharges that routinely drive US broadband bills even higher.
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Trucks would pay $260, and taxis and for-hire vehicles could see surcharges of $225 to $203 per ride.
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Instead, the group said, most of the drivers' pay went toward car payments, maintenance and surcharges from the company.
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ISPs impose usage caps as high as 1 terabyte, then sock you with additional surcharges for extra bandwidth consumed.
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It continues to experiment with surcharges for blockbusters, which it began testing in four major US cities in August.
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"This bill will punish lower- and middle-class Americans with increased premiums, surcharges and reserve fund assessments," Waters said.
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Cable provider Charter will increase a half-dozen of its surcharges and fees for all Spectrum customers beginning in November.
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Instead of an individual mandate, the new GOP plan promises monthslong surcharges for customers who allow their coverage to lapse.
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Higher adjusted gross income also can also trigger the high income surcharges on Medicare Part B premiums for outpatient services.
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The arena raised its facilities fee, one of its ticket surcharges, by 50 cents to help pay for the machines.
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Unfortunately for travelers, fees and surcharges are a growing moneymaker for hotels and not likely to go away anytime soon.
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"If you're a professional and you continue to work, you can be subject to the surcharges pretty easily," Jones said.
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For one way or round-trip flights between North America and Europe (except London) there are no fuel surcharges, either.
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New surcharges of $2 to $5 could be added to rides in for-hire vehicles, including taxis and Uber cars.
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That could mean fuel surcharges for passengers down the road, said Foster Finley, a managing director at consulting firm AlixPartners.
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Seven states - California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont - prohibit tobacco use surcharges under any circumstances.
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An additional 118,229 employees, including 13,242 smokers, worked for such companies in states where the surcharges are not even allowed.
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Premiums through the National Flood Insurance Policy started rising in April, bringing the average annual amount, including surcharges, to $250,062.
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Surcharges on fuel imports for distribution countrywide, including to Sana'a where the rebels hold sway, he says, raise $16m a month.
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The city has already imposed surcharges of $2.50 per trip on yellow taxis and $2.75 per trip on Uber and others.
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The New York law subjects merchants to a potential one-year prison sentence and $500 fine for imposing credit card surcharges.
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Revenue per parcel delivered rose just 2.6 percent, as higher prices and fuel surcharges offset the higher costs, the company said.
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Republicans used this so-called reconciliation procedure in their failed attempt to kill "Obamacare," including its tax surcharges on wealthy people.
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Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill in September that lets PG&E issue bonds backed by surcharges from the utility's customers.
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The New York law subjected merchants to a potential one-year prison sentence and $500 fine for imposing credit card surcharges.
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That means watching for higher taxes or fees on everything from registering cars and boats to taxes or surcharges on resorts.
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And, oddly, tobacco users who faced lower surcharges than the maximum allowed actually "showed significantly less smoking cessation," according to the study.
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Where they were implemented, "surcharges increased the out-of-pocket premiums substantially for many tobacco users," the authors of the study wrote.
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The service, already in Los Angeles and London, nixes fuel surcharges and other fees that FedEx and UPS place on its goods.
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Initiating coverage of Afterpay last week, UBS questioned the company's business model for disallowing merchants from passing on surcharges to their customers.
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These surcharges range from about $4,340 for a patient with asthma to as much as $142,650 for a patient with metastatic cancer.
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ATA does not track or forecast shipping rates, but does monitor rate proxies such as average revenue per mile excluding fuel surcharges.
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Since 60, high-income enrollees have been paying surcharges on their premiums for Part B (outpatient services) and Part D (prescription drugs).
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While British Airways is a transfer partner for both programs, BA is notorious for huge fuel surcharges for overseas flights into Heathrow.
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Monthly usage limits range anywhere from a few gigabytes to 1 terabyte per month, after which consumers are hit with additional surcharges.
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This ought to include surcharges on rides in taxis, "black cars," and Uber and Lyft vehicles in the busiest parts of Manhattan.
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Cities, including New York, also have used sales and payroll taxes, taxi surcharges and car registration fees to pay for transit investments.
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Boxed is similar to Costco in that it offers bulk items at prices comparable to Costco— no membership required and no surcharges.
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Companies like FedEx and UPS that ship and deliver packages for Amazon can somewhat offset the cost of pricier fuel with surcharges.
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Under their current model, Shipt delivers for free on orders of more than $35, though surcharges for certain items can add up.
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The New York law, similar to ones in nine other states, bars merchants from imposing surcharges when their customers use credit cards.
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The service, already in Los Angeles and London, nixed fuel surcharges and other fees that FedEx and UPS place on its goods.
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Fines, court-user fees, surcharges, assessments, interest, collection and per-payment fees fund everything from local law enforcement departments to county jails.
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The statutory corporate income tax (CIT) rate, 30 percent plus surcharges adding to 34.6 percent for resident companies, is high by international standards.
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Business folk did win exemptions for about 2,000 energy-intensive manufacturers from paying the big surcharges that fund Germany's subsidies for renewable energy.
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The Commission in its 2010 finding said the cartel fixed air freight services, fuel and security surcharges between December 1999 and February 2006.
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Instead, passengers were subject to bogus surcharges (a fee for airport pickup, for example) or charged the night-time fare in the daytime.
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So they were subject to bogus surcharges (a fee for airport pickup, for example), or charged the night-time fare in the daytime.
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Yet there's a straightforward way that Uber could preserve the benefits of variable pricing while blunting the backlash: Use discounts rather than surcharges.
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The company also said that fuel surcharges for FedEx Express and FedEx Ground will be adjusted on a weekly basis, effective Feb. 6.
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Buckey says that it rarely works out that you save money if you have to pay spousal surcharges for access to both plans.
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As part of the bill that Brown signed, PG&E will now be able to issue bonds backed by surcharges from its customers.
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If you book Emirates first class with points and miles, you could be on the hook for large surcharges — in this example, $843.
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The Austrian company is involved in another investigation by German authorities into possible fixing of alloy surcharges, which dates back to November 2015.
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But according to FareCompare, airlines began adding more surcharges for fuel and holiday travel that year, and the trend continued throughout the decade.
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OAKLAND — During California's long drought, public officials urged residents to cut back on water usage and imposed temporary bill surcharges to discourage consumption.
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On the eve of last year's stress tests, Mr. Tarrullo publicly signaled the need for higher capital surcharges on the eight largest banks.
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The Tax Foundation found that, in 2017, taxes, fees and surcharges made up a whopping 18.5 percent of the average customer's wireless bill.
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Many preparers add surcharges for last-minute appointments and additional fees for extensions, which vary depending on the complexity of the return. 2.
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Fines and fees can rise quickly with late penalties, and can be sent to private collection agencies that add their own hefty surcharges.
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Ohio Republicans are claiming that HB793 — $300 million a year in new surcharges paid by every ratepayer in the state — will save ratepayers money.
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Although the decrease in prices would reduce costs for FedEx, it also means the shipping company misses out on fuel surcharges that bolster revenue.
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If merchants gain the ability to add surcharges for orders that use BNPL products, it could damage one of the BNPL industry's core values.
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Surcharges on purchases that use BNPL solutions would negate some of the offering's ability to lower prices for consumers, which may lessen their appeal.
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In fact, the Tax Foundation found that, in 2018, taxes, fees and surcharges made up a whopping 19% of the average customer's wireless bill.
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Afterpay is currently able to prevent merchants from adding surcharges to account for its fees, something they may do for card networks' merchant fees.
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Airports across the country add surcharges of up to $279 a ride — typically passed directly on to travelers — for trips originating at their curbs.
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As of Monday, he's over halfway toward his fundraising goal, which he set at $93 to account for GoFundMe fees and potential surprise surcharges.
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UPS has also added 1-2 days to some transit times and surcharges for packages shipped during peak times, according to Wall Street Journal.
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The airline's results were impacted by a strong dollar, lower surcharges, and travel reductions from customers whose businesses were impacted by declining oil prices.
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One of the most profitable surcharges for America's biggest cable provider is the fee it charges users to rent a modem, router, or gateway.
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Private carriers already impose surcharges, as high as $4.45 per item, for package deliveries to approximately 53 percent of the nation's 42,000 ZIP codes.
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Taxis and app-based services like Uber and Lyft (potent causes of many traffic headaches) would have per-ride surcharges of $2 to $5.
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Most streaming video alternatives usually lack such sneaky surcharges, contracts, ETFs, and hidden fees, resulting in consistently higher customer service ratings as a result.
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This is a micro-vacation for those who like to walk, although you can also use your favorite ride-hailing app; surcharges may apply.
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Most ISPs see little competition in their markets, therefore there's little to no incentive to raise caps or stop hammering consumers with spurious surcharges.
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The fees are paid by the person sending the cash, and there aren't any ATM surcharges for the person redeeming the money, he said.
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FedEx – FedEx will raise its rates on January 6, 2020, although it also said it would not apply holiday season residential surcharges this year.
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Insurance companies would have been permitted to add surcharges of hundreds of thousands of dollars for people with, for example, a prior cancer diagnosis.
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She gave me cash over the weekend, and I'd rather pay her back this way than use the ATM and get hit with crazy surcharges.
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FBI DETAILS TOP INTERNET SCAMS Bundled with other charges AT&T has a web page that explains surcharges and other fees, including the Administrative Fee.
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ETTSA had previously complained about Lufthansa's surcharges to the Commission's transport department, saying that these breached the EU's code of conduct on computerized reservation systems.
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"This will reduce the overall costs of FMS and could potentially save allies and partners 16.7% in CAS surcharges in this coming year," Hooper said.
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The "capital surcharges" are in addition to capital adequacy regulations on the banks, which start at a minimum of 8 percent of risk-weighted assets.
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And consumers began to complain that it was unfair to continue demanding dramatic cutbacks in water use or imposing drought surcharges on their water bills.
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The average return airfare (before surcharges and taxes) in 2020 is tipped to be $293, or 64 percent below 1998 levels after adjusting for inflation.
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They found that 16 percent of the 278 small employers used tobacco surcharges, yet 53 percent of those companies failed to offer tobacco cessation counseling.
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The tax increases fees on single rides and lowers them on shared rides, while also introducing new surcharges on weekday rides in the downtown area.
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It also unveiled a number of surcharges in recent years, seen as a way to manage the higher costs associated with e-commerce and unwieldy packages.
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The main reason for the decrease: the Authority has canceled surcharges, sometimes as high as 2000 percent, that Hamas collected in cash from merchants in Gaza.
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Another surprise cost would be spousal surcharges, where you pay extra to add your spouse to the plan if he or she has other coverage available.
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Many, including this newspaper at the time, doubted his sincerity, arguing that the airline's no-nonsense approach to fees and surcharges had driven its commercial success.
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Wizz Air of Hungary, his main ultra-low-cost rival, is now doing a better job of cutting headline fares and recouping the shortfall from surcharges.
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In an FAQ on its site, MoviePass explains its new dynamic pricing plan and the accompanying surcharges in more detail, but not a lot of detail.
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After America and the EU slapped penalties of $8003 billion on airlines for suspected collusion in air-freight surcharges, plaintiffs' lawyers pursued 28 carriers for damages.
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It also alleged that Lufthansa levies unjustified surcharges on rival travel agents and forces them to use its own technological distribution systems instead of competing systems.
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There aren't many sweet spots in Emirates partner award charts, but some of the partners (such as Alaska, JetBlue, Gol, and Copa) don't have fuel surcharges.
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Those who receive probation must pay "surcharges" to fund their supervision or room-and-board at a halfway house, as well as electronic monitoring and urinalysis.
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Those surcharges were adjusted slightly downward: for example, individuals with income above $500,53 (again, based on 2018 tax returns) will pay $76.40 extra each month, vs.
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Regular audiences, on the other hand, shell out top dollar for a new release (often with surcharges for 3D, Imax and other superfluous bells and whistles).
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DBS bank said that the Indian government's removal of tax surcharges on foreign portfolio investors and the outperformance of domestic equities helped fuel inflows last year.
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"It adds up," said Mysore L. Nagaraja, a former head of M.T.A. construction now working as a consultant, who called the surcharges standard for most vendors.
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But they noted that Uber includes tolls and surcharges in gross bookings, unlike Lyft, and Uber's numbers were global, which suggests a larger spread of its range.
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Many users were promised a locked-in rate of $99, but hidden fees and surcharges quickly left many with service plans they couldn't afford, the AG said.
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Over five years, those premium surcharges sum to $36.7 billion or four and a half times the $8 billion set aside for the pre-existing condition subsidies.
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In other businesses, the BNSF railroad saw profit rise 7 percent to $838 million, helped by higher revenue from fuel surcharges and increased shipments of consumer products.
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The New York law at issue in the case, similar to ones in nine other states, bars merchants from imposing surcharges when their customers use credit cards.
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"With the recent passage of federal tax reform, the performance bonus plan will no longer eliminate such surcharges," Netflix said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
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The failed healthcare overhaul was their first attempt at a massive tax break by eliminating the surcharges on the wealthiest Americans that pay for the current program.
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Those with incomes of $500,000 or more ($750,000 for couples) will pay surcharges that result in paying 85 percent of the cost, up from 80 percent in 2018.
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Those with incomes of $22019,22019 or more ($225,235 for couples) will pay surcharges that result in paying 22018 percent of the cost, up from 443 percent in 244.
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Wood said that instead of addressing this problem for what it is (false advertising), American leadership tends to treat such spurious surcharges as the height of capitalistic creativity.
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"The committee has said the government should move away from surcharges on income and reduce corporate tax to 25%," the source who declined to be identified told Reuters.
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It's possible that BNPL providers will work on expanding their services beyond payments to bolster the argument that they shouldn't be regulated as payments firms and avoid surcharges.
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UPS has also unveiled a number of new surcharges in recent years, seen as a way to manage the higher costs associated with e-commerce and unwieldy packages.
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Nearly half of large employers plan surcharges for working spouse coverage in 2017, up from 28 percent this year, according Willis Towers Watson's latest health-care employer survey.
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The Federal Reserve Board has not yet decided whether systemic banks will be required to include capital surcharges in the overall capital requirements under the regular stress tests.
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Neither the millionaire's tax nor the congestion zone made it into the state budget, only the surcharges on for-hire vehicles, whose booming numbers have contributed to congestion.
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The merchants' lawsuits challenging the laws were filed soon after a 2013 settlement in which leading credit-card companies dropped contractual rules that prevented merchants from adding surcharges.
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The price of a dozen roses, for example, is typically hiked 100 percent or more, not to mention the delivery fees and surcharges, just because it's Valentine's Day.
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Yet these policies duplicate others designed to tackle the same problem, including capital surcharges, stress tests, living wills and a push to "bail in" bondholders when disaster strikes.
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In the last 25 years, as mass incarceration became increasingly costly, states and localities shifted the burden to criminal offenders with an explosion in special fees and surcharges.
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Still, the Banking Committee will consider possible changes, such as boosting coinsurance and increasing amounts the U.S. government may recoup through policyholder surcharges, Crapo said at the time.
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Daniel K. Tarullo, the Fed governor who oversees regulation, told Bloomberg Television this month that regulators would probably seek additional capital surcharges for the country's eight biggest banks.
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Vehicles could be equipped with special odometers during registration, while heavy trucks could also be equipped with wireless axle-weight sensors to calculate surcharges based on pavement damage.
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However, there are currently no fuel surcharges when you redeeming Aeroplan miles on the following airlines between the US and Europe:• Swiss• United• Turkish• SAS• Brussels Airlines• TAP763.
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The surcharges began appearing in 2008, after voters in San Francisco approved an ordinance requiring businesses with more than 20 employees to set aside money for health care.
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A major problem is that incumbent broadband providers have gone to great lengths to nickel and dime subscribers with a wide variety of spurious surcharges and bogus fees.
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AT&T doesn't even tell you how much these added surcharges and fees will cost you until you actually order service, leaving you blindsided when your bill arrives.
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We dream of sangria and chia,We eat brunch in Flinders LaneAnd drink pints on Brunswick Street,We pay 1 percent card surcharges,Not 10 percent housing deposits.
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They told me not to worry about all of the fees or the surcharges and just to think about the money I could get to support my family.
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This time around, though, the Taxi Workers Alliance says Uber wrongly shifted the cost of those taxes and surcharges to drivers, in addition to charging the service fee.
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CMS has not approved other aspects of the waiver, like charging premiums and surcharges for people whose income exceeds more than 100 percent of the federal poverty level.
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Verizon also claims it will be eliminating hidden fees and surcharges, often used by the cable and broadband sector to sneakily drive up the advertised price of service.
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President Donald Trump ordered a new raft of surcharges on around $200 billion worth of Chinese goods last week, with China retaliating with $60 billion in U.S. goods.
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The average annual premium is now about $878, not including various surcharges that apply in some cases, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which administers the program.
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Nonetheless, it's difficult to see how last minute surcharges could explain how twice as much money was spent on what appears to have been about half as many events.
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Close to half of the 555 employers polled by Willis Towers Watson in June and July 33 expect to use spousal surcharges when other coverage is available in 2019.
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The Supreme Court will soon weigh in, hearing a case brought by a group of New York retailers who say the state's ban on credit-card surcharges is unconstitutional.
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Chinese airlines scrapped fuel surcharges for domestic flights in 2015, after oil prices sank to six-year lows and pushed fuel purchase costs to below a government-set level.
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However, group sales dropped 6 percent due to currency effects, lower fuel surcharges and a change in the way the company recognises revenue from a contract with Britain's NHS.
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Singapore Airlines and its affiliates lowered their surcharges in February last year but continue to apply them, while Emirates said recently it had no plan to cut its charge.
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"We expect builders to attempt to combine surcharges to customers with someacceptance of lower margins as a way of coping, " wrote Carl Reichardt of BTIG in a note Tuesday.
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Using plastic can also cost you an extra dollar or two what with surcharges and fees, like the way a movie theater charges you to buy tickets in advance.
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Surcharges for foreign visitors (a standard practice in countries from Chile to Kenya) could provide more funding to help care for our own trails, historic sites, and national parkways.
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The CTIA argued in a legal filing submitted Wednesday that if texts are an information service, then the CPUC doesn't have authority over them and can't add on surcharges.
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Consumer groups like Free Press were also quick to issue statements urging ISPs to cease the practice of spurious and unnecessary surcharges in the face of the looming pandemic.
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That said, other studies have supported the idea that municipal broadband providers are more likely to offer better, cheaper service free of obnoxious surcharges and quickly-evaporating promotional savings.
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Andrew M. Cuomo of New York, where lawmakers included $100 million in opioid taxes or surcharges in two consecutive budgets, though last year's measure is tied up in court.
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They're encountering fees and surcharges even for basic amenities, some of which were once free, including holding luggage, parking, early departures or merely having a room with a safe.
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Surcharges and "convenience fees " — such as the extra dollar or so a movie theater charges you to buy tickets in advance with a card, and the 2.9 percent plus $.
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The company said it would not apply additional residential surcharges during the holiday season, except for certain shipments, following a similar move by rival United Parcel Service last month.
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Income taxes must be paid on the withdrawn funds, and RMDs also can trigger additional taxes on Social Security income and even high income Medicare premium surcharges (reut.rs/2O56D1X).
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Convicted of five breaches of the Noise Abatement Notice, he must pay $12,950 (£10,000) in fines, plus $7,770 (£6,000) in fees to the council and another $220 (£170) in surcharges.
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There is a convenience fee of $0.50 for every movie you book through the app, and surcharges apply for special features such as 4DX, IMAX, 3D, marathons, and double features.
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"On average, 49-year-old smokers living in one of the 43 states that allowed surcharges in 2014 faced a median tobacco surcharge of $70 per month," the authors wrote.
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Surcharges on foreign property ownership have been in place since July 2015 and have had "little impact" on foreign demand for Victorian dwellings, the Victorian government said in the statement.
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The Ministry of Finance said in January it would also collect 46 billion yuan from surcharges on coal-fired power over the coming three years in order to resettle workers.
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The surcharges on rides south of 96th Street — $2.50 in yellow taxis, $2.75 in other for-hire vehicles — are expected to raise more than $400 million annually for public transportation.
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"Airlines will not be approved to levy passenger fuel surcharges from February 1, 2016, onwards for flights originating from Hong Kong until further notice," the CAD said in a statement.
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The Harvard-Harris poll asked voters what they thought about a series of possible surcharges, and one of the least popular was a gasoline tax, with 77 percent against it.
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Both are meant to protect Britain from global banks blowing up, but they duplicate other measures aimed at the same problem—silos, capital surcharges, "bail-in" bonds and liquidity buffers.
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The surcharges will be applied to residential packages, large packages with combined length and girth of over 130 inches, and to packages weighing more than 150 pounds, the company said.
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Traders said that from Duisburg and Cologne to south Germany the Rhine is too shallow for normal sailings, which means vessel operators impose surcharges on freight rates for cargo owners.
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Mr. Hanson projected that total fees and surcharges collected by hotels in the United States will reach a high of $2.93 billion this year, with another record projected in 2019.
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Without a deal between London and Brussels, British customers will no longer be covered by a ban on cross-border surcharges, which prevents business from imposing excessive charges on consumers.
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Whether you book online or by phone, Professor Hanson said to confirm on the phone with the hotel what, if any, fees and surcharges will be added to your bill.
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Worse, as electricity use falls with the continuing exodus of the island's residents and businesses, those that remain will pay higher and higher surcharges to meet the Prepa debt payments.
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If it doesn't, you can appeal the decision to an administrative law judge, although the process could take time and you'd continue paying those surcharges in the meantime, Roberts said.
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Cartel Office investigators searched several offices and homes in November 2015 and found evidence that steel companies had since 2004 been agreeing on how to calculate scrap and alloy surcharges.
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We called out this industry's insane practice of piling monthly surcharges, fees and added taxes on customers' wireless service plans — so the amount carriers advertise is never the amount customers pay.
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But these cryptic fees and surcharges make it hard to predict how much you'll pay from month to month, and almost impossible to know if the cable company made a mistake.
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And anybody that's flown lately is well aware of the wide variety of nonsensical surcharges that can quickly result in a far more pricey trip than you may have originally expected.
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While that may seem like a positive news for travelers, it's important to keep in mind that the airlines are likely to make up for the price cuts with sneaky surcharges.
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If increasing insurance coverage and tobacco cessation are the most important goals of the surcharges, the authors wrote, "having no surcharge is preferable to having a low, medium or high surcharge."
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Vietnam Airlines JSC, which is also unhedged, said fuel surcharges were now being applied in a move that would push up fares but could gradually lead to lower demand from passengers.
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Venezuela said Colombia was illegally discriminating against its fuel exports by imposing "a series of distribution and licensing measures, and product surcharges, market access measures and pricing policies" on Venezuelan fuel.
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While 1 terabyte sounds generous, the rise of 4K streaming and on demand game streaming services like Google Stadia are likely to drive more and more users toward additional usage surcharges.
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Other transport companies, such as trucking, railroads and parcel delivery companies, can readily enact fuel surcharges, making them less susceptible than airlines to higher oil prices, said Morningstar analyst Keith Schoonmaker.
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Emirates Award FlightsYou can also transfer Chase points to Skywards to book award flights on Emirates, but they are very expensive — both in terms of points and in terms of surcharges.
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He was indicted on state charges last year when New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman alleged Freidman and others failed to pay $5 million in MTA surcharges between 2012 and 2015.
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Freidman was arrested last June on charges that he and another business partner stole more than $5 million in state surcharges that are imposed on taxi rides in New York City.
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AT&T's advertised price also doesn't include a bevy of misleading surcharges and fees, a tactic cable and broadband providers have long utilized to help them falsely advertise a lower price.
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Ultimately, managers should have flexibility to set pricing structures that work best for each site—whether that includes peak-season fees, annual passes, day rates, or surcharges for visitors from abroad.
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UPS, which declined to comment on Wal-Mart's backlog, has also unveiled a number of surcharges in recent years, seen as a way to manage the higher costs associated with e-commerce.
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But it's hard not to feel like the restrictions just keep on piling up at the same time as surcharges to evade them, all while regulators are largely asleep at the wheel.
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Surcharges are applied, the investigators said, for customers demanding shipment through private delivery services, such as FedEx, DHL and United Parcel Service, because of the greater likelihood the goods would be seized.
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Uber usually takes 20 percent to 25 percent from each fare, but that cut can increase when factoring surcharges like Safe Ride Fees, which is said to average at $1.75 per fare.
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Daseke said its rates were up 10 percent for flatbeds, while Universal Logistics Holdings said revenue per mile excluding fuel surcharges rose 12.7 percent annually, according to a Journal of Commerce report.
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The surcharges not only act as a glorified rate hike on already expensive US broadband connections, but can deter consumers looking to ditch traditional cable TV and use streaming alternatives like Netflix.
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And depending on which state they live in, people with preexisting conditions — metastatic cancer, heart failure, late-term kidney disease — could see surcharges in the tens of thousands of dollars per year.
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They're meant to help domestic manufacturing by imposing surcharges of 30 percent on imported solar panel technology and 20 percent on washers, decreasing each year for four years before phasing out completely.
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The Trump administration plans to force electricity customers to pay for a multi-billion dollar annual bailout of old and uncompetitive coal and nuclear plants through surcharges on their monthly energy bills.
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While the FCC did flirt with some voluntary requirements that forced ISPs to be more transparent about such surcharges, those modest guidelines were demolished with last June's industry-backed repeal of net neutrality.
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Reid's report said his team "tried to ensure that all taxes and surcharges are included" so the figures are comparable, but there could still be some variation depending on discounts and local fees.
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There are two changes to bill surcharges: • Broadcast TV surcharge: The cost Charter passes on to you for carrying ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC on Spectrum goes up from $8.85 to $9.95/month.
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The total value of surcharges for the use of debit and credit cards, which have also included fees from government departments, was estimated at £473 million ($617 million) in 2010, the ministry said.
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"Excessive surcharges for phone calls from a consumer's home country into another EU Member State is far from what people expect in a single market," said Ursula Pachl, deputy director general of BEUC.
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The CEVS surcharges and rebates are set based on United Nations standards on how to measure the amount of electricity cars consume, rather than standards set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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The Economy Ministry proposed that the compensation - a refund for surcharges on the electricity price that reflect the carbon emissions prices paid by generators - be extended beyond 2020, several people said on Thursday.
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"The key is to work with an advisor and look at the right mix of products, stocks, bonds, insurance and Roth accounts so that you don't get hit by these surcharges," said Mastrogiovanni.
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Chief among them is a new set of quirky surcharges that creates an effective new tax rate of 45.6 percent for those who earn more than $1 million in taxable income per year.
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Under new regulations SIBs are required from January 1 to set aside "capital surcharges" of between 0.25 percent and 0.625 percent of risk-weighted assets, depending on how systemically important the institutions are.
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Transit advocate Ted Kheel, who lobbied for free transit in New York City for over 40 years, proposed a plan that included congestion pricing, taxi surcharges, and higher parking fees to cover fares.
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For example with the FCC's oversight now restricted, the agency has done nothing to police a rotating array of bogus fees and surcharges ISPs use to jack up the cost of your bill.
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The study team estimates that in states where surcharges are allowed, 950,712 employees work for a company imposing the charges without an accompanying wellness program, and of these, 155,917 smokers would be affected.
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Operators will also be able to ask regulators for permission to apply roaming surcharges after June if they stand to lose at least 3 percent of mobile revenues when providing "roam like at home".
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Now they are focusing more on packaging, charging a fee for design services while also levying what they call 'dimensional weight' surcharges for boxes that take up too much room in relation their weight.
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If you miss that window, not only will you face a pricey penalty in the form of surcharges added to your premiums for future years, but also a potentially more problematic gap in coverage.
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CANCUN, Mexico, June 5 (Reuters) - Air France-KLM is assessing its relationships with global distribution systems after rivals introduced surcharges for bookings via third parties, Chief Executive Officer Jean-Marc Janaillac said on Monday.
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Japan is Asia's biggest importer of aluminium and the surcharges, or premiums, which consumers pay on top of the London Metal Exchange cash price for primary metal shipments, set the benchmark for the region.
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That's because they either will receive higher federal subsidies that offset rising Obamacare premiums, or will opt for other types of plans that are not subject to the surcharges in a number of states.
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If you're likely to hit the max, it may make sense to have everyone on one plan instead of paying two premiums, even if you do have to pay slightly more for spousal surcharges.
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Knock-on effects have been volatile movements in spreads between LME futures contracts for the metal, mainly used in transport and packaging, as well as uncertainty about the direction in surcharges for physical metal.
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European Union governments and lawmakers have agreed to cap the price of calling from one EU country to another, seeking to score another political victory with citizens after the elimination of mobile roaming surcharges.
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Fly the following airlines, which are ANA's partners in the Star Alliance, to avoid fuel surcharges:• United• Air Canada• SASRead more: How to get a first-class flight on ANA using credit card points2000.
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The United States, for example, protects the domestic sugar market from lower-priced global suppliers and imposes tariffs on imported shoes, while Japan has steep surcharges on agricultural products including rice, beef and dairy.
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Plus, using credit can come with such as high interest rates, surcharges and other fees, like the extra dollar or so a movie theater charges you to buy tickets in advance with a card.
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They have surcharges to help cover the extra expense, but retailers are pushing back as they work to lower the cost of ever-faster - and still free - shipping, said Satish Jindel, founder of ShipMatrix.
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Mr. McMahon also posited that many small businesses would be wary of any new tax platform, as Albany has a longstanding reputation of letting even temporary surcharges survive for years past their intended purpose.
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Earlier this year, a state-appointed task force, Fix NYC, had proposed such a congestion zone in Manhattan as the centerpiece of a plan that also included surcharges on rides in for-hire vehicles.
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That made the round-trip total for the nonstop flight $1163 including taxes and surcharges — less than other round-trip nonstops from major carriers between New York and London, which were starting around $2116.
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As a result, the FCC's apathy let ISPs engage in behavior like charging consumers rental fees for modems they already own, or jacking up subscriber bills via a bevy of bogus fees and surcharges.
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The governor's office says that those of us using nonburner phones are already paying similar surcharges — which help pay for state 911 costs — and that the new fee will simply level the playing field.
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Over on Civil Eats, Spencer Robins takes a look at the ways that diners are creating better working conditions for restaurant workers, from voluntarily paying "health care surcharges" to advocating for higher minimum wages.
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The duo's Truth-In-Billing, Remedies, and User Empowerment over Fees ('TRUE Fees') Act would require cable TV or broadband providers to include all additional surcharges in the advertised price, helping consumers avoid sticker shock.
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The FCC's Universal Service Fund, which draws from surcharges on consumers' bills, provides funding to help carriers build into hard-to-reach areas to deliver speeds of at least 10 Mbps download and 1Mbps upload.
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The amounts are small, just $3 or $4 per one-way flight, but observers are right to ask why prices are not moving in the opposite direction, and why fuel surcharges remain prevalent and costly.
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"The area that we've got to focus on of course for this year is cyber week, and we already announced changes in the surcharges that we think we will help that for 2018," he said.
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All the newcomers apply a rigid no-frills philosophy to keep costs down: legroom is miserly, on-board entertainment is minimal to non-existent, and optional perks like food and checked luggage attract hefty surcharges.
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Especially since, with surcharges and fees, like the extra dollar or so a movie theater charges you to buy tickets in advance with a card, you often have to pay extra when you use plastic.
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"Subjecting wireless carriers' text messaging traffic to surcharges that cannot be applied to the lion's share of messaging traffic and messaging providers is illogical, anticompetitive, and harmful to consumers," the CTIA said in its filing.
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The Polish regulator also applies capital surcharges for FC mortgages at 3.8 banks, ranging from just below 140% to 21153% of risk-weighted assets; 75% of the surcharge must be covered by Tier 1 capital.
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This can come in handy if you choose to leave data roaming on for web browsing or email, but you want to prevent MMS messages from eating up your data and costing you unwanted surcharges.
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The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) said the court found Air NZ fixed fuel prices and insurance surcharges on air freight services from Hong Kong, and insurance and security charges from Singapore between 2002 and 2007.
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The study also found that there was "neither substantive nor statistically different" effects on smoking cessation among groups of people who had either no surcharge, or who had medium or high surcharges on their Obamacare premiums.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union governments and lawmakers have agreed to cap the price of calling from one EU country to another, seeking to score another political victory with citizens after the elimination of mobile roaming surcharges.
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" The report also noted, "People who live in rural and other areas of the country where health care costs and premiums are higher also would face higher premium surcharges if they had a gap in coverage.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a challenge to a New York state law barring retailers from imposing surcharges on customers who make purchases with a credit card rather than cash.
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A 55-year-old couple, where each spouse earns $70,803, could anticipate seeing their lifetime Medicare surcharges rise by almost $122,000 due to changes to how the health-care program charges its beneficiaries, HealthView Services found.
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The court found Air NZ fixed fuel prices and insurance surcharges on air freight services from Hong Kong, and insurance and security charges from Singapore between 2002 and 2007, the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) said.
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Comcast, the nation's biggest ISP, told Motherboard it was exploring a number of options to aid those now quarantined at home, but so far the elimination of its caps and usage surcharges isn't among those options.
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The magic of this approach is that it is tantamount to a peak period surcharge but framed as an off-peak discount — no one (other than economists) likes peak period surcharges, but everyone loves a discount.
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States—like employers—can set their own policies on this, and not every state allows for these surcharges, as anti-cancer activists, along with Big Tobacco, have said that it would disproportionately affect lower-income groups.
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Two cities — Los Angeles and Oklahoma City — showed no increase because state laws in California and Oklahoma prohibit surcharges on drivers who are involved in accidents through no fault of their own, the consumer group said.
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Such surcharges not only make streaming Netflix more expensive for would be "cord cutters," but ISPs often exempt their own content and services from said caps (known as "zero rating"), giving them an unfair market advantage.
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The surcharges for these seats vary but a round-trip ticket between Newark, New Jersey, and San Francisco in early November was about $445 in a regular economy class seat and $200 more in Economy Plus seats.
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Anyone who's been a click away from booking a short-term rental on Airbnb, only to realize that the final price has been jacked up by surcharges, has probably been frustrated by how the platform displays prices.
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A long-running lawsuit over railroad surcharges cannot proceed as a class action because the plaintiffs' own statistical model indicated that nearly 13 percent of them had suffered no harm, a federal appeals court held on Friday.
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Major commercial banks were called upon to cut their average lending rate for SMEs by 1 percentage point in the fourth quarter, compared with the first quarter, and remove unnecessary procedures and surcharges for financing, Xinhua said.
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But not all surcharges are going away: Verizon will continue charging a $15 monthly fee for routers in some of its internet packages and a $12 set-top monthly fee in most of its Fios TV packages.
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The Affordable Care Act permits these surcharges only when employers provide a wellness program, yet more than one million employees in the U.S. work for a company that is noncompliant, researchers estimate in the journal Health Affairs.
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The standard Part B premium requires enrollees to pay 25 percent of the government's total per-capita program costs; the surcharges require high-income enrollees to pay anywhere from 35 to 85 percent more, depending on their income.
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The OECD suggested imposing capital surcharges on such banks to spur them to offload bad loans, perhaps by setting up a European asset management company as a buyer, which would benefit from economies of scale and diversify risks.
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The group claims a total of nearly $77 million was collected over a five-year period by the 13 cities from municipal court fines, fees and surcharges in an area with a population of less than 50,000 people.
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A state task force assembled by Mr. Cuomo, called Fix NYC, laid out a plan with the congestion zone as the centerpiece and included $2 to $5 surcharges on for-hire vehicles, including Ubers, Lyfts and yellow taxis.
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Insurers slapped surcharges of anywhere from 7 to 38 percent onto premiums for Obamacare's most popular type of plans because of threats for months by President Donald Trump to end reimbursement payments to insurers, a new report says.
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A Kaiser Family Foundation analysis released last week found that insurers added surcharges of anywhere from 22018 to 250 percent onto their premiums for Obamacare plans because of those threats, which the administration finally executed earlier this month.
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Households and companies are paying more than 20 billion euros a year in surcharges on their utility bills to uphold the system, which sees some wind parks taken off-grid during storms but operators still getting guaranteed pay.
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WASHINGTON, Sept 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a challenge to a New York state law barring retailers from imposing surcharges on customers who make purchases with a credit card rather than cash.
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There could still be more stress in the repo market in the final days of the year, when large banks are expected to cut back on repo lending to shrink their balance sheets and avoid higher capital surcharges.
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Some urban commuters will be able to justify the $3,299 / €3,199 / £2,899 base price by replacing costly commutes made by car, or by saving on surcharges when taking public transportation (folding bikes are usually free, unlike full-sized bikes).
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"Our findings suggest that high tobacco surcharges undermine attempts to achieve universal coverage, a key goal of the Affordable Care Act," said Abigail Friedman, a Yale professor and co-author of the study, published in the journal Health Affairs.
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Hafiz Pasha, a former head of an official economic advisory body, argues that the PML-N has undermined the benefits of the new plants by obliging industry to subsidise other power consumers through a series of surcharges and taxes.
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The indexes were set to snap their longest losing streak since mid-May, which was triggered by heavy foreign investor selling on concerns of higher tax surcharges, slowing economic growth and a weak start to the corporate earnings season.
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Freidman, known as New York's "Taxi King," was indicted on state charges last year by then-New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who alleged Freidman and others failed to pay $5 million in MTA surcharges between 2012 and 2015.
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Starting that year, individuals with incomes exceeding $500,000 ($750,000 for couples) will pay higher Medicare surcharges — 85 percent of their program costs, up from 80 percent under current law, according to the Medicare Rights Center, a consumer advocacy group.
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The Commission had handed out fines of a total of 169 million euros ($210.1 million) to 13 companies in the sector in 2012, saying they had agreed on fixing various pricing mechanisms and surcharges in breach of EU rules.
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The greater liquidity at year end will be offered at a time when some large banks are expected to reduce their lending in the repo market in an effort to shrink their balance sheets and avoid higher capital surcharges.
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From fees for simply trying to pay your bill to broadband surcharges based entirely on fluff and nonsense, the industry has spent years advertising one rate, only to hit you with a significantly higher price once your bill actually comes due.
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The Social Security Administration determines whether surcharges are owed from data in the most recently available tax return it obtains from the I.R.S.; for 2020 premiums, the agency will use income tax data provided this year from 2018 tax filings.
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The court's proceedings found that between 2003 and 2006, Garuda agreed to deals that fixed the price of security and fuel surcharges, as well as a customs fee from Indonesia, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said in a statement.
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Pai's recent repeal of net neutrality—if it survives next February's court battle—is likely to open the door to entirely new, creative surcharges and penalties on what's already some of the most expensive mobile data plans in the world.
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There are often random riff-raff travelers panhandling outside, food preparation by white rastafarians, and strange surcharges if you aren't a member, but you can't be a member if you don't live in that state, according to co-op by laws.
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Tsingshan, which can produce about 8 million tonnes or 15 percent of global stainless output, could upend the stainless industry with this move, as rivals may be forced to drop their surcharges and offer long-term contracts in order to compete.
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Singapore's CEVS aims to incentivize consumers to purchase lower carbon-emitting vehicles by offering up to S$219,2500 worth of rebates for vehicles with low carbon emissions, and setting up to S$0003,2000 in surcharges for higher carbon-emitting vehicles.
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Air New Zealand Ltd in May announced a 5 percent increase in domestic fares due to rising costs, while regulators in Japan and Taiwan have allowed airlines to put in place fuel surcharges to help compensate for the higher oil price.
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WASHINGTON, Jan 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday struggled over how to decide a challenge to a New York state law barring retailers from imposing surcharges on customers who make purchases with a credit card instead of cash.
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Round-trip to Europe in business class for 88,153 ANA miles with no fuel surchargesJapanese carrier ANA does pass along fuel surcharges when you use its Mileage Club program to book awards on most airlines, and booking round-trip is required.
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The airline blames a strong dollar, which has contributed to weak demand in international markets, and low oil prices, which have reduced revenue from fuel surcharges and curbed traffic in Houston, an energy center that is one of United's largest hubs.
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As part of this year's budget, state leaders eventually passed surcharges on rides south of 96th Street — $2.50 in yellow taxis, $2.75 in other for-hire vehicles — that are expected to raise more than $400 million annually for public transportation.
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Andrew Cuomo its recommendations to make drivers pay to enter the overcrowded core of Manhattan: $11.52 for cars, $25.34 for trucks, and per-ride surcharges of $2 to $5 for taxis and app-based services like Uber, Lyft and Via.
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Customs and Border Protection has been testing a number of biometric programs in partnership with several airlines in Atlanta, Boston, New York and Washington, funded by up to $1 billion collected from certain visa fee surcharges over the next 10 years.
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In California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico and Texas, laws forbid merchants from adding surcharges on credit card transactions, the NCSL reports, which adds that legislators in California and New York are challenging that law.
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However, if there's no deal on the subsidies within the next five weeks, states will have no choice but to approve rate increases that include surcharges and go with those rates for the start of open enrollment on Nov. 1.
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The tax fraud case, filed in 2017, involved two surcharges collected by cabs that Mr. Freidman owned and ones he managed for others: a 50-cent fee for regional transit improvements, and a 30-cent fee for more wheelchair-accessible taxis.
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But jurisdictions in Florida impose a dizzying array of fees on convicts designed to raise revenue for the state: a $50 "application fee" for a public defender, $100 each for the public defender and the prosecutor's "costs", and various crime-specific surcharges.
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The eight banks considered to be of global systemic importance (G-SIBs, in banking parlance) must meet not only the capital and leverage requirements agreed on by international supervisors after the crisis (see article) but also additional surcharges levied by the Fed.
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The cost of the aviation fuel is typically reflected in the cost of an airline ticket, but additional surcharges are sometimes permitted to help airlines recover from big jumps in operating costs due to larger than usual fluctuations in aviation fuel prices.
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Australia's two most populous states, New South Wales and Victoria, have this year increased their surcharges on home sales for foreign investors, while the national government announced fines for foreign owners who leave properties vacant for at least six months of the year.
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"Various mobile operators will not be able to cancel roaming charges as foreseen and they will be forced to use the exceptions permitting them to continue to apply roaming surcharges to recover their costs," said Innocenzo Genna, vice-president of MVNO Europe.
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From the company's arbitrary and unnecessary broadband caps and overage fees to all manner of sneaky below-the-line surcharges, Comcast has made an art form of advertising one price, then socking consumers with significantly higher rates once the bill comes due.
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The deal, which marks the first increase in four quarters and a rise from a $90 per tonne premium PREM-ALUM-JP in the previous quarter, is in line with a climb in U.S. and European surcharges for physical aluminium amid tighter availability.
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Experts on Thursday noted that such surcharges aren't technically necessary, operate as little more than a cash grab on captive customers in uncompetitive markets, and urged all US ISPs to suspend the practice as millions of Americans work and learn from home.
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This might not mean higher base fares, thanks to greater competition from low-fare carriers, Mr. Hobica said, but travelers might see fuel surcharges become common again, or have to pay higher fees for checked bags, Wi-Fi and other ancillary services.
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"Customers are tired of having to buy a bundle with services they don't want to get the best rates, and then discover that those rates didn't include extra fees and surcharges," said Frank Boulben, Verizon's senior vice president of marketing, in statement.
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Mayor Lori Lightfoots plan increases the city's tax on single-passenger trips and lowers the tax on shared rides, while imposing new surcharges on weekday rides in the downtown area to raise $40 million for the fiscal year that begins Jan. 1.
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The deal, which marks a 22-23 percent fall from a $115-$117 per ton premium in the previous quarter, is the first drop since the October-December quarter of 2015, and is in line with a slide in overseas surcharges for physical aluminum.
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The lawsuits by Ticket Galaxy and TicketNetwork Inc came 2-1/2 years after Underwood's predecessor Eric Schneiderman said his multiyear probe into the industry had uncovered hoarding, inflated surcharges and favoritism to insiders that made it difficult for ordinary people to buy affordable seats.
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Onex saw an opportunity in Canada's aviation market duopoly to build up the Calgary-based low-cost carrier against Air Canada, even in a country where high commercial aviation fees and surcharges are regularly derided by airlines, a source familiar with Onex's thinking told Reuters.
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The combined entity allows Jung to offer dynamic pricing (think uber surcharges or discounts for your bar tab), table selection in venues for bookers, and providing information on the ratio of ladies to gents in a venue; and when venues are getting busy, he said.
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Connecticut's corporate income tax rate is nominally 2800 percent, but GE likely pays an effective rate of 9 percent due to surcharges on growth income, versus 8 percent in Massachusetts, said Jared Walczak, a policy analyst at the Tax Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank.
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The Memphis, Tennessee-based package delivery company said FedEx Express and FedEx Ground in the U.S. and Canada will raise holiday surcharges for additional handling by $3 per package, for oversized goods by $25 per package, and for unauthorized shipments by $300 per package.
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Check out the companies making headlines midday Wednesday: FedEx, UPS —Shares of FedEx and UPS fell 1.3 percent and 1.7 percent, respectively, after The Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon is trying to poach shippers from the two companies by offering lower fuel surcharges and fees.
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NEW DELHI, Aug 20 (Reuters) - An Indian government panel has recommended cutting the corporate tax rate to 25% from 30% for all companies and scrapping surcharges on tax payments, an official said on Tuesday, part of a major overhaul of the six-decades old tax act.
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Some analysts were concerned there could be a repeat of volatility in the repo market at the end of last year, when large banks were expected to pull back on lending in short-term markets in an effort to shrink their balance sheets and avoid capital surcharges.
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UPS has unveiled a number of new surcharges in recent years, which are seen as a way not only to manage the higher costs associated with e-commerce but also to encourage retailers that ship excessively large, heavy or unwieldy packages to seek alternative shipping methods.
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At the same time, the surcharges for tobacco users did not lead to overall reduced smoking among people who actually ended up enrolling in Obamacare coverage during the first year of the plans, according to the study by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.
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This included extending refunds for surcharges on green electricity to companies, something Altmaier said he expected to be looked upon favorably at a European Commission level as Germany, unlike its European Union neighbors plans to exit all of its nuclear power and much of its coal simultaneously.
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The deals, which mark a 19 to 23 percent fall from premiums of $115 to 117 per tonne in the previous quarter, are the first decline since the October-December quarter of 2015, and are in line with a slide in overseas surcharges for physical aluminum.
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They floated various half-measures of their own, including — predictably — telling the mayor to use some of the city's budget surplus to cut a check to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which Mr. Cuomo controls, as well as increasing surcharges on taxis and other for-hire cars.
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The new corporate tax rate for domestic companies, excluding surcharges, makes India more competitive than neighboring Bangladesh, where the textile industry is growing, but slightly less attractive than Vietnam, which has wooed businesses affected by the U.S.-China trade dispute, according to data compiled by Deloitte.
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It's like if a burger joint charged you for a patty of plain ground beef and a bun, then gave you the chance to make your burger more palatable by paying a seasoning fee, a medium-rare fee, and separate surcharges for lettuce, tomato, and onion.
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The feature doesn't take into account surcharges, so you're going to need to factor those in yourself, but it does give you a handy estimate as to how far you can get with the money you've got left in your bank account (and it does include current traffic conditions).
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To address the surge in Uber and other ride-hail-app services, they also proposed adding per-mile and per-minute surcharges to fares for cabs and other for-hire vehicles in Manhattan south of 96th Street, which was intended to improve traffic flow in heavily congested business areas.
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Visa's new structure appears to be a bid to bolster its acceptance and usage while taking advantage of e-commerce's reliance on cards:By lowering fees for some categories, Visa can potentially convince more merchants in those areas to accept its cards and not include surcharges on its transactions.
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"With these surcharges, the Deposit Insurance Fund is expected to reach the statutory minimum level ahead of the statutory deadline of 2020, reducing the risk that the FDIC will have to raise rates unexpectedly in the event of stress in the financial sector," FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg said in a statement.
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From a policy perspective, researchers want to look to states to figure out what authority exists to protect tobacco users from being taken advantage of in the meantime, if the complex system of regulations, surcharges and workplace wellness programs is flawed, said Alex Liber of the American Cancer Society in Atlanta.
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"It reflects this data by protecting the nation's smallest ISPs but it also continues to ensure that the majority of consumers receive the full set of benefits promised by the enhanced transparency rules, including clear disclosure of promotional rates, fees, surcharges and data caps," said technology subcommittee ranking member Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.).
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Ride-hailing is a huge revenue-generator for SFO: the airport increased its fee on every ride-hail trip that begins or ends at a terminal to $5 this year and also surcharges $3.60 on all trips that begin or end in a ride-hail zone at the top of their central garage.
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Meanwhile Amazon, which is rolling out its own delivery network called Amazon Shipping, is trying to poach merchant clients from FedEx and UPS, promising to forgo many fees that those traditional carriers use to pad their revenue, including fuel surcharges and extra charges to deliver packages to residences and during peak holiday season.
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Scott Rechler, a member of the governor's task force and the M.T.A. board, said that as much as $50 million from the new surcharges could be used to make transit improvements outside Manhattan, and set the stage for passing a congestion zone next year when the legislators are not concerned about getting re-elected.
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Hotels in the United States are predicted to rake in a record $2.7 billion this year in fees and surcharges, up from $2.45 billion two years ago, according to new research from Bjorn Hanson, a clinical professor at the New York University School of Professional Studies Jonathan M. Tisch Center for Hospitality and Tourism.
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That was the biggest one-time tax increase in modern times; the tax surcharges approved for the Korean and Vietnam wars each collected revenue equal to about 1.5% of GDP and the deficit-reduction tax plans approved under George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton in the early 1990s each raised about one-third that amount.
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For customers who keep at least $200,000 in deposit, retirement, and investment accounts, the bank offers access to its Citigold Package, which bears a variety of perks: reimbursement of out-of-network ATM surcharges in the US and internationally, waived foreign transaction fees on debit card transactions, and access to a relationship manager or financial adviser.
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In 6.83, these requirements were "enhanced" to include a few other measures: any and all promotional rates, fees and surcharges, packet loss, data caps, "application-agnostic degradation of service to a particular end user" — for example, throttling your traffic after you hit a "soft" data cap or the like — and a few other odds and ends.
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That is true even if you are protected by the hold-harmless provision, which prevents premium hikes from exceeding Social Security cost-of-living adjustments (beneficiaries protected by this provision are paying an average premium of $109 monthly this year for Part B). The standard premium also is used to calculate penalties for seniors who pay Medicare's high-income premium surcharges.
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That is true even if you are protected by the hold-harmless provision, which prevents premium hikes from exceeding Social Security cost-of-living adjustments (beneficiaries protected by this provision are paying an average premium of $653 monthly this year for Part B). The standard premium also is used to calculate penalties for seniors who pay Medicare's high-income premium surcharges.
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"To the extent that fees or other surcharges help airlines generate more revenues or avoid costs for services that some passengers may not value, they help overcome an economic climate in which costs are rising steadily, as they are today," said Alison McAfee, a spokeswoman for Airlines for America, an industry group that represents American Airlines, JetBlue, United, Southwest and others.
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Dollar, lower surcharges * Tax margin, 14.7% for any adjusted earnings above that * Based on april 6463, 2016 fuel forward curve, expects total q2 hedge loss of about $40 million, or $0.04 per gallon * Based on april 14, 2016 fuel forward curve, expects for full-year 2016, hedge loss of $235 million, or $0.06 per gallon Further company coverage: (Bengaluru Newsroom: +1-646-646-8780)
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A chart in the paper illustrates this phenomenon, though again you should note that this doesn't include hidden fees, usage caps, overage penalties and other "creative" surcharges routinely used to covertly jack up prices even further post sale: The study is quick to highlight how the end result of this lack of competition is routinely ugly for vast swaths of America, assuming you can get broadband in the first place.
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As Vox's Alex Abad-Santos noted, airlines use a tactic of "calculated misery" with passengers, often making their baseline products and services so low-quality and unpleasant that many people are more willing to pay more to avoid them: It's like if a burger joint charged you for a patty of plain ground beef and a bun, then gave you the chance to make your burger more palatable by paying a seasoning fee, a medium-rare fee, and separate surcharges for lettuce, tomato, and onion.
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SHARES RESULTED IN BOOK GAIN OF EUR 114 MILLION * AMSTERDAM COURT OF APPEAL RULED AGAINST CO IN CASE WHERE CO RAISED SURCHARGES FOR MORTGAGES WITH EURIBOR INTEREST RATES * ON COURT RULING: EXPECTS TO INCREASE ITS EXISTING PROVISION BY APPROXIMATELY EUR 50M * RECOVERY FRAMEWORK FOR SME DERIVATIVES-RELATED ISSUES IS MORE EXTENSIVE THAN EXPECTED * - ON SME: PROJECT COSTS ARE EXPECTED TO RISE WITH ADDITIONAL EUR 80-100 MILLION FOR WHICH PROVISION IS INTENDED * EXPECT TO TAKE ADDITIONAL RESTRUCTURING PROVISION OF AROUND EUR 100 MILLION RELATED TO REORGANISATION Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage: (Gdynia Newsroom)
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