Who s Who on Putin s Payroll?

3,000 employees. He kept every one of them on the payroll.

Lowering the tax burden on firms including the payroll tax would also be useful.

Between November 2002 and January 2003, she lived abroad while on the payroll as an assistant of the VVD.

Payroll tax relief and spending on programs like food stamps and unemployment compensation are much more effective.

France, for example, is notorious for forcing foreign firms like Britain's Marks and Spencer to keep redundant workers on the payroll.

Roughly half of the urban labor force in Bosnia is on the payroll of international organizations and NGOs, and the other half is unemployed.

That rule reduces income and payroll taxes by more than 200 billion.

Therefore, cutting the payroll tax rate in 2011 2012 and making the rate schedule more graduated (on the Medicare side) were mistakes from the standpoint of efficient taxation.

In France, unemployment contributions are collected through a payroll tax, not a layoff tax.

The high cost of employing workers in France is due not so much to wages and benefits as it is to payroll taxes levied on employers.

But the most important part of the deal to avert the fiscal cliff was the restoration of the efficient payroll tax.

Anyone who failed to do so without a valid excuse would be eliminated from the payroll, it said.

How complicated would it be to shift from a payroll tax to a layoff tax?

And it culminated with the red brown cells that, even today, on sites that I prefer not to mention, offer grub and a hideout for persons willing to bump off the bosses on the chancellor s payroll.

Kenya has started biometrically registering all civil servants in an attempt to remove ghost workers from the government's payroll.

There are drug traffickers, politicians, businesspeople, journalists suspected of being on the payroll of the government or the cartels, a catalog of villains who make the job of covering Mexico's chaos perilous.

They're going to say, Hey, maybe it was those guys in payroll that forged those checks.

The payroll tax paid by employees is 6.65 (employers pay the same rate), and is in addition to the personal income tax.

Unsurprisingly, high payroll taxes strained the capacity of working people and mounting non wage labor costs eroded companies' international competitiveness.

At the very least, to keep the economy on course for 2.5 growth this year, the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits proposed by Obama should be extended through the end of the year.

But Congress failed to approve a 50 cut in employers payroll taxes a business tax cut that many Republicans favored in the past and that ranks high on budgetary effectiveness.

The rest of the EU should not only follow suit they should also cut income and payroll taxes and liberalize their labor markets.

Minimum wage increases, for example, counteract income tax credits and lower payroll taxes aimed at encouraging youth employment.

The following year, Information Sciences, Inc. hired the four Lakeside students to write a payroll program in Cobol, providing them computer time and royalties.

And this amount partly reflects the fact that employed people who collect Social Security and Medicare are subject to the payroll tax that finances them.

We now have less than full employment in the sense that the payroll tax encourages older workers to work fewer hours than they otherwise would.

To boost the value of their shares, these shareholders backed the drive to reduce the global volume of the payroll and the number of workers that companies employ.

Payroll personnel would be cut, resulting in late payments to wartime vendors, and legal and policy support would be disrupted.

Clara Jobs had been a payroll clerk for Varian Associates, one of the first high tech firms in what became known as Silicon Valley.

The MKO, which was once on Saddam Hussein s payroll and responsible for the loss of many innocent lives in Iran and Iraq, is now under the protection of the US government in Iraq and operates freely in the US itself.

For example, we can choose how much to collect via a general income tax, a payroll tax, a consumption tax (such as a sales or value added tax), and so on.

This serious revenue boost was not counted in standard reports, because the payroll tax holiday for 2011 2012 had always been treated legally as temporary.

So employment protection reform should involve a shift from a payroll tax to a layoff tax, accompanied by a reduction in the role of judges.

The reduction in real incomes caused by the VAT increase could be offset by a combination of reduced personal income taxes, reduced payroll taxes, and increased transfers.

Moreover, because of the complex rules that govern the level of Social Security benefits, the older worker who pays this payroll tax is likely to receive no extra benefits.

Job creation is strong, with total non farm payroll employment having increased by 295,000 in February and the unemployment rate falling yet again, to just 5.5 .

The result is an escalating financial snowball comprised of payroll, tax, and loan liabilities, which would have led to bankruptcy if the business owner hadn t approached the prosecutor s office for assistance.

A more effective stimulus would speed up spending that needs to be done anyway. Or cut taxes to change the marginal calculus of firms on layoffs and consumers on spending for example, by suspending the payroll tax on firms and workers for a year or suspending part or all of the sales tax or national value added tax.

Instead, Obama could, for example, have suspended the payroll tax for a year, getting money directly into people s pockets quickly and decreasing the need for firms to lay off workers.

Businesses can fire or hire workers largely at will and there are no significant costs to massively trimming the payroll (as we are now seeing with German owned Chrysler). The only important restraints on this managerial freedom are concerns about worker morale and its impact on productivity, profits and stock valuation.

Moreover, the high payroll taxes needed to finance these benefits constitute another deterrent to hiring, as does the high minimum wage, which tends to price unskilled labor above its potential productivity.

Businesses can fire or hire workers largely at will and there are no significant costs to massively trimming the payroll (as we are now seeing with German owned Chrysler).

And yet such assessments overlook the record of the past few years, during which successive governments have taken some fairly radical measures to strengthen Greece s fiscal position and scale back the public payroll.

The center left s ponderous electoral program proposes a cut of five percentage points in payroll taxes, but it is not clear where the required 10 billion will come from to pay for this.