Carriers cut flights to fill more seats Nov 8, 2009
For example, most carriers have added a $10 holiday travel surcharge for peak holiday travel days ... "What that means is they have pricing traction. They can add a surcharge here or there.". (Honolulu Advertiser)
Jet, Kingfisher lead fare hikes Nov 7, 2009
A domestic flight within 1,000 km would attract an additional surcharge of Rs 100 and Rs 200 for flights beyond that. The higher fares will not be applicable for those who have already booked their tickets. (India Times)
House health care vote faces delay Nov 7, 2009
The measure is financed through a combination of a tax surcharge on wealthy Americans and spending constraints in Medicare and Medicaid. The bill received a major boost Thursday when it was endorsed by AARP and the American Medical Association. (CNN)
Fernandez is eager to put Malaysia on the world sports map Nov 7, 2009
By doing so, the airline was able to remove the fuel surcharge from its fares, hence offering more competitive fares. The frontloading, however, came at a cost in FY08, the airline posted its first full-year net loss of RM472mil from a net profit of RM698mil the previous year despite a 37% rise in sales. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Business)
Four reasons the Pelosi health care plan is wrong for America (647) Nov 5, 2009
Four reasons the Pelosi health care plan is wrong for America - Somerset - Daily American. The sheer size and scope of the Pelosi plan is so enormous that I could write an op-ed every day for a month pointing out what is bad in the bill. (Somerset Daily American, PA)
Coles 911 looks for more funds Nov 5, 2009
Cell phone users pay a 911 surcharge, but not as much as land line users do and the cell phone fee doesn t always go to Coles County, he explained ... The 911 system began handling non-emergency dispatches when it first went on-line, but the board at that time soon discovered that the monthly phone surcharge collected couldn t legally be use to pay for that. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
GOP to unveil plans Nov 4, 2009
The tax surcharge would apply to adjusted gross incomes of more than $500,000 for individuals and $1 million for joint filers. Debate on that plan could begin late this week, with final votes late this week or early next week. (AZCentral -- News)
floating the idea of a temporary sales-tax increase. Nov 4, 2009
But Gordon's comments, during a City Council meeting, marked the first mention of a sales-tax hike - or "emergency economic surcharge" - that the council could approve to stave off service cuts ... One idea, the mayor's aides said, is a temporary surcharge to four sales taxes voters approved in the past decade: Props ... The surcharge would expire when the economy improves, aides said. (AZCentral -- News)
Fair Oaks Ranch ends drought surcharge, once-a-week watering Nov 4, 2009
Published: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 12:44 PM CST Fair Oaks Ranch Mayor Dan Kasprowicz has terminated the drought surcharge and rescinded the once-a-week watering restriction, effective Nov.1. The surcharge will by applied to water used in October. (Boerne Star, TX)
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Several of the largest U.S. airlines have increased a surcharge for travel on the busiest travel days to 20 each way, up from 10. The surcharges apply to a large number of flights within the U.S. on more than a dozen peak days around holidays including Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's ... Delta, American, United, US Airways and Northwest all boosted their surcharge on some routes, said Tom Parsons, who runs the discount travel site. (Pocatello Idaho State Journal, ID)
Airlines double holiday surcharges Nov 3, 2009
Several of the largest U.S. airlines have increased a surcharge for travel on the busiest travel days to $20 each way, up from $10. The surcharges apply to a large number of flights within the U.S. on more than a dozen peak days around holidays including Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's ... Delta Air Lines, , , US Airways and Northwest all boosted their surcharge on some routes, said Tom Parsons, who runs the discount travel site Bestfares. (Crain's Chicago Business)
Some airlines increase holiday travel surcharge Nov 3, 2009
Delta, Northwest, American and United have doubled the surcharge they've imposed for the busiest travel days around Christmas and New Year's ... The new surcharges, which most consumers will see as already included in the fares when they hunt online, come a week after the same airlines matched some of the lowest fare sale prices in years for travel this winter ... But it also can bunch travel on the Sunday after Christmas, Dec. 27 a day when many of the $20 one-way surcharges will be imposed. (USA Today -- Money)
Gas prices on the rise Nov 1, 2009
Because of that, he added a $1 delivery surcharge that is paid to drivers. The surcharge is still in place. (The News-Press -- Business)
Pam Roberts: State needs comeback in manufacturing Oct 31, 2009
Whenever the trust fund balance falls to $11 million or below, South Dakota businesses are assessed a surcharge of 1 ... 8 million at the end of September and the surcharge was enacted for the fourth quarter of 2009 ... 5 percent surcharge to stay in effect until the end of June 2010 because they predict that the trust fund will have a negative balance in December 2009 and March 2010. (Madison Daily Leader, SD)
Regional Roundup Oct 30, 2009
Also, property owners face a surcharge increase from 1. 10 per 1,000 gallons used to 1. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
House Dems reveal $894B health plan Oct 30, 2009
The bill's other major new source of revenue is from a proposed income tax surcharge of 5. 4 percent on wealthy earners, individuals making at least $500,000 a year and couples $1 million or more. (MSNBC -- Politics)
Cavuto: Washington's Learning the Hard Way Oct 30, 2009
What makes you think you're going to be getting half a trillion bucks from folks who in a single year, will likely see their top rate soar from 35 percent to 45 percent, thanks to this additional five percent health-care surcharge. And with many of their deductions limited the same year, more like 50 percent. (Fox News)
House bill includes public option, mandate Oct 30, 2009
4 percent surcharge on adjusted gross income above $500,000 for individuals and $1 million for married couples who file a joint return. The bill also would impose a $2,500 limit on worker contributions to health care flexible spending accounts. (Sacramento Business Journal, CA)
MI governor, GOP leader still far apart on revenue Oct 29, 2009
The GOP-led Senate has passed a bill that would eliminate a scheduled increase in a tax credit for low-income workers and use the money saved to begin rolling back a business tax surcharge and add 100 million to the school aid budget. The Democratic-controlled House hasn't voted on the measure. (Ionia Sentinel-Standard, MI)
Options In Focus: The Option to Buy or Sell? Oct 29, 2009
It would include a tax surcharge on the rich, hefty fines on firms that don't provide coverage to workers and slash Medicare by $500 bil. It includes a public option, but not as strong as liberals wanted. (Investors Business Daily)
Xcel seeks to reduce solar rebate payment Oct 28, 2009
Money for the payments is collected from all Xcel customers, through a 2 percent surcharge on monthly bills. Xcel proposed making the first cut in REC payments from $1. (Denver Business Journal, CO)
Time for some fancy footwork Oct 28, 2009
Surcharges can mount up ... Merchants can apply a surcharge to cover the fees they're charged by card providers but must declare this upfront. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Kenya: Donor Fund Hitch Spells Doom for Electricity Sector Oct 26, 2009
Power consumers will next month, for instance, pay a fuel cost surcharge of Sh7. 75 per unit of power up from Sh4. (allAfrica.com)
Stealth Socialism Oct 25, 2009
4% income tax surcharge sure to kill private sector jobs. It's time for new ideas, like the expanded private coverage options of the Patients' Choice Act, backed by Rep. (Investors Business Daily)
Bernanke Urges Congress To Act Now On Overhaul Oct 24, 2009
To beef up banking supervision, Bernanke again said regulators are considering assessing a capital surcharge on big financial companies or requiring that a greater share of their capital be common equity. The Fed also supports efforts for banks to build larger capital buffers in good times and allow them to be drawn down in bad times. (Click2Houston, TX)
Letter: A look at the shifting politics of health care reform Oct 24, 2009
anonym wrote on Oct 23, 2009 12:13 PM:" Mr. Brewers letter was a great lesson in recent history. It jogged my memory. Thanks. I do believe Mr. Burtons views on tax policy need to be addressed, as he does pass on the beliefs of the Milton Friedman, Alan Greenspan, Wall Street Journal view of how the economy works, a view that was accepted by President Bill Clinton and his Friedman disciples, Robert Rubin and Larry Sommers. Very importantly, this is the view that Max Baucuss friend, Senator... (Montana Standard, MT)
Recycling effort stalls Oct 24, 2009
Earlier in the year the committee discussed a possible annual surcharge per household as a way to fund a countywide program. Burt did not rule out a township-by-township household surcharge as a means to fund such a program but emphasized the subcommittee would be looking at all possible funding options. (Gaylord Herald Times, MI)
Editorial Roundup Oct 22, 2009
No matter how squeezed the University of California is, it makes no sense to single out students our economy will need -- such as its future engineers -- and levy a surcharge on them for their chosen major. That's the latest scheme for raising revenue at UC. Undergraduates in engineering and business would be charged $900 more a year than other students, who already are facing a probable fee increase of more than $2,500 next fall. (Hanford Sentinal, CA)
Michigan Senate sends 6 budget bills to governor Oct 22, 2009
But Granholm said the bill doesn't solve the deficit because all Bishop did was move money around, using money saved to pay for a partial rollback of a business tax surcharge. "He didn't raise any new money for the school aid fund," she said. (Ionia Sentinel-Standard, MI)
More of this story Oct 22, 2009
Other proposals included a $2-per-day surcharge on rental cars to generate money for state parks, but council members worried that if such a proposal were to make it to the state Legislature during the 2010 session, lawmakers might sense blood in the water and use that money for another purpose. Fees for tour buses coming into Koke e were also discussed. (Lihue Garden Island, HA)
SCANA seeks funding for expansion Oct 21, 2009
As proposed, the program would not increase the new monthly surcharge that the PSC passed when it approved the AGL plan ... If passed, however, the surcharge would be extended for three additional years, ending in 2025. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Business)
Medibank membership slows due to rising jobless Oct 20, 2009
The impact from changes to the Medicare levy surcharge had also 00004000 been less than expected. "I suspect it is the economy that is making the bigger play in this," Mr Savvides said, adding it appeared to be turning "positive". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
- Voice: Many reasons for opposition (1) Oct 20, 2009
If your water use is too high you will pay a surcharge for the water. Then you will pay an additional surcharge for the sewer because of the high water use. (El Centro Imperial Valley Press, CA)
Nigeria: Local Airlines May Collapse, Operators Cry Out Oct 19, 2009
These charges include landing and parking charges, fuel surcharge by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and high cost of aviation fuel. They also complain that the airlines pay huge amounts of money in foreign exchange for the maintenance of aircraft and purchase of aircraft spare parts, which can only be imported into the country. (allAfrica.com)
Obama assails deceptive health ads Oct 18, 2009
The House and Senate bills also envision higher taxes an income tax surcharge on million-dollar wage-earners in the case of the House and a new excise levy on insurance companies selling high-cost policies in the case of the Senate Finance Committee bill. Click for related content. (MSNBC -- Politics)
Obama: Health Industry Deceiving Consumers Oct 18, 2009
The House and Senate bills also envision higher taxes - an income tax surcharge on million-dollar wage-earners in the case of the House and a new excise levy on insurance companies selling high-cost policies in the case of the Senate Finance Committee bill. Republican opponents of the bills say the increased cost will be passed on to patients, further job losses and give the government more say in who gets medical care and what kind. (CBS News)
Madison leaders discuss economy with Rounds Oct 16, 2009
Madison Dairy Queen owner DeLon Mork is concerned about an upcoming surcharge that will be assessed on every business in 2010 to replenish the unemployment insurance fund. The surcharge is a one-time charge of as much as $150 per employee in 2010 ... "We can borrow from the Feds at zero interest if we go in the hole, but the surcharge is an automatic trigger.". (Madison Daily Leader, SD)
EDITORIAL: New voice for initiative reform Oct 15, 2009
No matter how squeezed the University of California is, it makes no sense to single out students our economy will need - such as its future engineers - and levy a surcharge on them for their chosen major. Calif. (Fresno Bee)
Cost of Freedom Recap Oct 14, 2009
They're going to slap a surcharge. Come on. (Fox News)
Don't tinker with super, says Costello Oct 14, 2009
But, in a rare admission, the Liberal backbencher said he regretted the introduction nearly a decade ago of the now defunct super surcharge ... I regrett 00004000 ed it (the surcharge) ever after - the complexity of the system was just awful,'' Mr Costello told a Super Ratings conference in Melbourne. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Health reform passes 'a critical milestone' Oct 14, 2009
Each house also envisions higher taxes - an income-tax surcharge on million-dollar wage-earners in the case of the House, and a new excise levy on insurance companies selling high-cost policies in the case of the Senate Finance Committee bill. Apart from Snowe, Republicans on the committee cited higher taxes, a greater federal role in the insurance industry and other concerns as they lined up to oppose the bill. (AZCentral -- News)
Geniuses Creating Jobs Get the New York Treatment: Amity Shlaes Oct 13, 2009
The bad news: New York State then drove those very premiums up by retroactively raising a per-premium surcharge. The point goes well beyond New York or its innovating union. (Bloomberg -- Columnists)
No tax-free conversion into LLPs yet Oct 12, 2009
9% dividend distribution tax or the surcharge. Read business stories in. (India Times)
FDI norms to cover LLPs Oct 10, 2009
LLPs are not required to pay dividend distribution tax or a surcharge. Read business stories in. (India Times)
On tax code, India Inc bats for masses Oct 10, 2009
Though, the direct taxes code has proposed to slash the corporate tax rate to 25% from the current effective rate of 34%, including the surcharge and education cess, there are various proposals in the code that industry would ideally like to see dropped or tweaked. The minimum alternate tax (MAT) on gross assets is one such proposal that has invited all round criticism from the industry. (India Times)
Mich. Legislature passes K-12 schools budget Oct 10, 2009
Senate Republicans began passing a revenue proposal that would include phasing out a surcharge on Michigan's main business tax sooner than now planned. Lost revenue would be replaced with a mix of revenue increases, including freezing an income tax credit for low-income workers that is supposed to go up and capping the cost of tax incentives for moviemakers. (Ionia Sentinel-Standard, MI)
Initiative to crack down on calling while driving Oct 10, 2009
Penalty for breaking the law is a maximum fine of 100 and a 60 mandatory surcharge. If you use a hand-held cell phone while operating a vehicle on the New York State Thruway you should fully expect to receive a ticket from a New York State Trooper, Meyers said. (Auburn Citizen, NY)
Study on jobless insurance planned8:16 pm | (No comments posted.) Oct 10, 2009
Then every employer covered by the system must pay a 150 surcharge for every worker in early 2010, regardless of whether the employer has a record of layoffs or has never needed to tap the system ... 7 million infusion can bring the funds balance up enough so that a second surcharge of 100 isnt necessary in 2011 ... The situation, financially and politically, is sufficiently dire Gov. Mike Rounds and Roberts, as well as many council members, dropped their earlier opposition to the benefits... (Watertown Public Opinion, SD)
Those dams have got to go Oct 10, 2009
While the Oregon Legislature approved a bill during the last session authorizing PacifiCorp to raise 200 million for dam removal by levying a surcharge on its customers, the California Legislature balked at approving 250 million in state bonds. Just a few years ago it seemed unimaginable that the basin s bitter adversaries could come peaceably to the bargaining table, much less forge an agreement. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
The Great ATM Robbery Oct 7, 2009
According to , the average surcharge for using a money machine rose from $1. 78 in 2007 to $1. (Slate)
United adds dates for $10 holiday surcharge Oct 7, 2009
The Chicago-based carrier last month was among a group of airlines that added a $10 each-way surcharge for travel on Nov. 29 (the Sunday after Thanksgiving) and Jan. 2 and 3 ... In addition to United, the surcharge has been added by Delta Air Lines Inc. and Northwest, Continental Airlines Inc., and US Airways Group Inc. Seaney said discounters such as Southwest and JetBlue appear to be avoiding the surcharges. (Crain's Chicago Business)
Make your package pay Oct 7, 2009
The Age: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Melbourne's leading newspaper. PHOTO: Driving holidays. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Airline fares may be leveling off Oct 6, 2009
Big carriers add $10 surcharge on 3 busy days. Several big airlines this week have added $10 surcharges for most of their tickets for travel on three busy days around Thanksgiving and New Year's holidays ... On Friday US Airways Group Inc. matched the surcharge, and FareCompare. (Fresno Bee -- Business)
Network strain Oct 5, 2009
Earlier this year O2 claimed the surcharge was "used as a deterrent and to make sure that others using the network had a good experience". "Very few of our customers go over their limits," added a spokesman. (BBC News -- Technology)
As Senate panel winds up, historic health debate to start Oct 4, 2009
Finance Committee members also had no interest in the kind of income tax surcharge on the wealthy that House Democratic leaders have endorsed. Moderate Democrats wouldn't even consider such a tax. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
Obama Links Job Growth to Health Care Plan Oct 4, 2009
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3, 2009. Says Reform Would Create Jobs by Making Small Business Startups More Affordable. (CBS News)
Mich. lawmakers still divided about budget cuts Oct 3, 2009
But as part of any discussion about trimming tax credits, Republicans want Democrats to phase out a business tax surcharge. Democratic Senate Minority Leader Mike Prusi of Ishpeming said it's time for a compromise since Wednesday's votes showed a lack of support for some cuts. (Ionia Sentinel-Standard, MI)
SRP changes cancel out bill increase Oct 2, 2009
5 percent decrease in its fuel and purchased power surcharge to reflect dropping fuel prices over the last year and for the next six months. The utility also approved a 2. (Phoenix Business Journal, AZ)
Missouri injury fund plummets Oct 2, 2009
The fund gets its revenue from surcharges paid by insurance companies and employers, said Amy Susan, a labor department spokeswoman. The surcharge comes from 3 percent of commercial insurance companies' written premiums and deductable credit, while self-insurers pay 3 percent of their premium equivalents, she said. (St. Louis Business Journal, MO)
A Short Introduction to Oil Prices and Oil Inventories Oct 2, 2009
Fred: I do support your proposal as far as it is economically sound, as a bridge over depleting petroleum to avoid damaging economic shocks, but worry that a) such increased use of N Gas will cause a surcharge on N Gas prices used for all other purposes, so perhaps not be as beneficial for economy as hoped. b) it is not a long-term solution, simply delaying the inevitable beginning of dire shortage from. (Energy Pulse, CO)
Idaho lawmaker panel: Delay gas tax shift Oct 2, 2009
The panel looked at several proposals, including a $1 monthly surcharge on car insurance, which would raise $19. 4 million a year, and a $3 fee on tire sales, to raise $4. (Ontario Argus Observer, OR)
Utility to remove dams blocking salmon Oct 1, 2009
The settlement terms call for PacifiCorp ratepayers to pay a surcharge to finance a company contribution of up to $200 million for dam removal and river channel restoration. The state of California would provide as much as $250 million in bonds. (Boston Globe)
Loose change Oct 1, 2009
A family of four flying from Sydney to Melbourne return with a single transaction on one card would pay a surcharge to Qantas of $30. 80. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Matson cuts fuel surcharge to 24% Oct 1, 2009
Matson cuts fuel surcharge to 24 ... is lowering its fuel surcharge from 28 percent to 24 percent for Hawaii shipments ... The company will reduce its fuel surcharge for Guam/Micronesia service from 29. (Pacific Business News, HI)
Risky business: States tax the rich at their peril (9) Sep 30, 2009
He said last year s surcharge on income taxes, set to last three years, won t likely meet expectations. So far this year, half of about $1 billion in expected revenue from New York s 100 richest taxpayers is missing. (Hudson Register Star, NY)
