Lurking behind Mr Ibrahim's worthy aims is the niggling sense that the money amounts to an annual bribe - a bribe for not accepting bribes - dangled like a fat carrot in front of the continent's elites, in the hope of steering them towards the sort of behaviour that should surely be taken for granted.
He said councils had the freedom and flexibility to develop their own schemes and ministers had urged them to be "sensible" about their collection policies so "they don't spend money collecting very, very small amounts of money".
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"It does arise that some of the ones we really want have asked for money and we can't justify spending large amounts of money, " he said.
Millionaires still will be able to spend their money in unlimited amounts.
Zaad, a mobile-money service, allows users to pay for goods by texting small amounts of money to a merchant's account, and is proving popular in Mogadishu.
When life firms cut their yields last year, pension funds, led by the giant Nenpuku, which manages a chunk of the state pension kitty, withdrew their money in huge amounts.
Over the years Buffett has given moderate amounts of money to his three children, Susan, Howard and Peter.
He needs to extract promises from these leaders for actual amounts of money to be investment.
But to be fair, the issues are hellishly complex and the amounts of money involved staggering.
Consultants are paid large amounts of money to embed it into organizational systems and procedures.
They want to charge different amounts of money for different tiers of Internet service.
So not having health insurance costs the economy huge amounts of money every year.
We're going to see 527s spend unlimited amounts of money on attack ads and partisan activity.
Why do citizens and corporations keep donating increasing amounts of money to candidates for public office?
Did you find that people sometimes spent ridiculous amounts of money keeping their hair up?
If countries are lending their neighbours vast amounts of money, they become further entwined.
The plan does, however, depend on American taxpayers stumping up huge amounts of money.
And if we're making those investments, we will save huge amounts of money in the long-term.
He was making huge amounts of money by using high-pressure techniques to sell timeshare vacation homes.
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First, record amounts of money will be spent in races across the country in 1998.
Unfortunately, this can cost unseemly amounts of money and may take months to produce tangible results.
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But they use different policies to do this, and spend different amounts of money.
They were also supported by a high-tech data operation that raised unexpectedly large amounts of money.
However, the U.S. health care system will eat infinite amounts of money if no one pushes back.
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Therefore borrowing small amounts of money for short periods of time is an expensive thing to do.
The international community has spent massive amounts of money in an effort to stabilize the vast nation.
They would have needed to raise serious VC money and spend enormous amounts of time on development.
The enormous amounts of money private equity managers have been personally making is also on the agenda.
Moreover, the journal says, the authors of those often had received significant amounts of money from Medtronic.
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The concern of some is the potential to actually make significant amounts of money from the internet.
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