Yet as time passes, flat-rate tax systems may become increasingly entrenched.
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Tax compliance increased and the inflation-adjusted revenues from the personal income tax rose more than 20 percent annually during the three years following the adoption of the flat-rate tax.
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One of her first actions was to introduce the poll tax or community charge, a flat-rate tax for local services which was based on individuals rather than the value of the property in which they lived.
His government then adopted a flat-rate income tax, ending Russia's days as an economic basket case.
From 2009, all but the richest Poles will pay a flat-rate income tax of 18%.
The hope is that a flat-rate income tax of 16% and a reduction in company taxes will kickstart growth.
Beginning in January 2001, the newly elected Putin administration shifted to a 13 percent flat-rate income tax and also sharply reduced the payroll tax rate.
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The best form of welfare is a good, high-paying job, and the best tax for creating jobs is a low-rate flat tax.
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Even if your withholding rate rises because of possible tax-rate increases after 2012, you can develop a tax-deferral strategy if the flat rate is less than your marginal tax rate.
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Our plan allows us to have a lower flat-tax rate and produces results that should appeal to conservatives as well as liberals.
Israel has made significant changes--especially under Benjamin Netanyahu, who was finance minister (2003--05)--but it could do a lot more, including instituting a low-rate flat tax.
Mr Salmond's big test will come in 2010, when he hopes to abolish council tax completely and replace it with a local income tax levied at a flat rate of 3p in each pound of basic-rate national income tax due.
Sensibly, President Putin has thrown out many of these exactions and given Russia a single-rate, flat tax system.
The Bush Administration's proposed new savings accounts are a step--a remarkably bold one--toward a radical tax change in the U.S. This revolution is moving toward what I and others have long advocated: a flat tax--an income tax system with a single rate that would apply after a high threshold and that would exempt levies on capital gains, dividends and interest.
Flat-tax pioneer Estonia is even reducing its rate by two percentage points a year until it drops to 20% in 2007.
BBC, the harder it becomes to justify the flat-rate licence fee (in all but name, a regressive tax) levied on all the country's television owners to pay for the corporation.
He advocated a single 19% tax rate on all income (including, flat-taxers take note, on capital gains).
It gave top-tier earning expatriates the ability to avoid the standard progressive income tax of up to 43% and instead pay a flat tax rate of 24% on income earned in-country.
Wal-Mart's fiscal fourth-quarter earnings rose 8.6% helped by a lower tax rate and expense controls, but it forecast flat U.S. same-store sales this quarter.
Instead of basing contributions on salaries, Ms Merkel wants a flat-rate health premium for all Germans, ensuring that health-care costs no longer act as a tax on employment.
For those yet to adopt a flat tax rate, the incentives for adoption (from the perspective of attracting investors) are weakening as the flat-tax club increases in size.
ECONOMIST: Will more of eastern Europe adopt flat-rate tax regimes?
Not only did it approve a bill allowing limited private-sector participation in health care, but it passed a law making Alberta the first province with a single provincial income-tax rate, of 10.5% in its case Canada's answer to the flat-tax idea of many Republicans in the United States.
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