Word: taxing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Cambridge's tax needs have not yet reached the statemandated levy limit, the city is approaching its cap. The city estimates a levy of about $109 million of the permitted $113.5 million for this year, leaving only a $4 million margin. For fiscal 1989, the margin was nearly $13 million...
...percent increase over the revised budget for this fiscal year, the proposal states that the city faces a "substantial increase in the tax levy" for fiscal 1990 to cope with expected cuts in state aid to local government...
...capital plan, continues efforts to repave streets, renovate parks and improve public safety, but these projects could be jeopardized if the financial situation worsens, Healy wrote. He called on the city to work with the state to find revenue for local aid, possibly by authorizing new types of local taxes or changes to Proposition 2-1/2, which in 1980 set the cap on local tax levies at 2.5 percent...
Washington is showing renewed interest in measures that would encourage oil companies to produce more and consumers to use less. One proposal is to increase incentives to the oil industry, which has moved its production overseas partly because tax breaks for U.S. drilling have declined in recent years. Another resurgent idea, which appeals to legislators primarily as a means of cutting the budget deficit, is to increase the 9 cents federal gasoline tax by anywhere from 5 cents to 50 cents...
...bill for the replacement water. Los Angeles has agreed to pay part of the cost of the pilot project. E.D.F. has committed itself to raising the remainder, partly by lobbying the state and the U.S. Forest Service, which has declared Mono Lake a National Forest Scenic Area. If tax dollars are unavailable, says Graff from the backseat, E.D.F. may propose turning the lake over to a private trust and setting up a tollbooth...