"surplus" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- With the state enjoying a surplus, currently estimated at $143.6 million, proposals to cut taxes or to eliminate the 7.5 percent state sales tax from various items are popular this session.
- Democrats are trying to draw attention to the disappearance of surpluses, once estimated to grow as high as $5.6 trillion over the decade.
- Though the state is also ending the current year with a surplus, estimated at $1.5 billion, it faces a deficit next year of $2.5 billion and more than $5 billion the year after.
- Instead, it salts away the surplus, estimated at $625 million, to finance tax cuts enacted in previous years but yet to take full effect, as well as to pay off the state's huge debt.
- But Michael Marr, a spokesman for the State Division of the Budget, said the surplus estimated by the comptroller "is just plain wrong."
- Last year two-way trade in goods and services totaled more than $150 billion, with a Canadian surplus estimated by Ottawa at $4.1 billion.
- Those two actions helped the city end the current fiscal year with a surplus now estimated at $1.5 billion, which will be used to balance the coming fiscal year's budget.
- The state finished the year with a surplus tentatively estimated at $483 million, although some state officials believe the number will grow even higher after a final accounting.
- The surplus outside of Social Security, already estimated at between $750 billion and $2 trillion, is expected to grow by a trillion more dollars.
- The discounts, estimated to cost $50 million, arise from an unexpected one-time surplus estimated at $700 million.
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