abatement
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The dollar amount of the abatement fund was slightly smaller than the $779.5 million that lawyers for the state sought.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, City Councilmember Ysabel Jurado and all five Los Angeles County supervisors were among the elected officials who submitted comments and letters in support of the abatement order.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Salt Lake City’s program also has the benefit of being a mosquito abatement district, a governmental agency with its own budget funded by property taxes.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
The change is going to help “hundreds of thousands” of taxpayers who were in the dark about the existing abatement process, according to Erin Collins, the IRS’s national taxpayer advocate.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
The three women sat talking about various miseries they had had, their cure or abatement, what had helped.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
When cities reduce direct cash contributions, owners typically ask for something else, like favorable land deals at below-market prices, tax abatements, new highway ramps and infrastructure built at public expense, sanitation and security services.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
In the 2025 fiscal year, the IRS granted first-time penalty abatements to nearly 220,000 taxpayers, Collins said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
Water Street in lower Manhattan has been a popular area for the makeovers, earning it the nickname "Conversion Alley," with buildings offering a mix of luxury and affordably-priced apartments to qualify for municipal abatements.
From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026
In 2001, Boeing moved its headquarters from Seattle, where it had been founded in 1916, to Chicago, prompted largely by tens of millions of dollars in tax abatements and other benefits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025
The privileges granted to the barons were either abatements in the rigor of the feudal law, or determinations in points which had been left by that law, or had become, by practice, arbitrary and ambiguous.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part A. From the Britons of Early Times to King John by David Hume
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