Alistair Darling announced last month that CGT would be charged at a single rate of 18%.
Greece is likely to introduce a 25% single rate for both corporate and personal income next month.
Moving to a single rate of VAT without exemptions would eliminate this distortion but it would also be regressive.
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These three rates would be replaced by a single rate, which would be considerably lower than the current top rate.
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He introduced a sliding scale that made capital-gains tax highly complex, and then reversed himself, introducing a single rate of 18%.
Increasingly-hawkish policymaker Andrzej Wojtyna was also quoted as saying Thursday that a single rate hike was necessary to halt the weakness of the Polish zloty.
The full details of the new single rate 18% CGT will not be released until the publication of the 2008 Finance Bill early next year.
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Civic Platform has promoted a single rate of 15% for value-added tax and income tax, wants to shrink government and favours faster privatisation of the state's remaining assets.
First, an income-tax system with a single rate remains progressive the rich pay a higher proportion of their income than the poor as long as it is combined with a tax-free allowance.
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It's about time the concept of taxing all income at a single rate, which presidential candidate Steve Forbes and then-House Majority Leader Dick Armey broached a decade ago, once again takes center stage.
The Bachus bill appeals to states because, although it would not require a single tax rate in jurisdictions within a state, it would authorize states themselves to set a single rate, Frieden said.
Ms McAuley said there were companies who charged a single rate across Scotland and the Edinburgh summit involved positive retailers, but that there were some "big business" in Scotland who had been invited but declined to attend.
Our own Steve Forbes has argued that one way to clean up the tax code and expose hidden taxes is through the adoption of a federal "flat" tax, a single rate for individuals and business that would eliminate most of the deductions and exemptions now in place.
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.
In order to preserve the euro, the single currency and thus also the single interest rate area that goes along with a single currency.
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And all the Alliance's would-be leaders favour an Albertan-style single-rate federal income tax (of 17%).
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Sensibly, President Putin has thrown out many of these exactions and given Russia a single-rate, flat tax system.
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That is an immense help, because unlike brewers, distillers are taxed at a single excise rate, whatever their size.
Instead, they will set a single tax rate of 12.5% for all companies.
His own reforms, such as introducing a simplified, single-rate foreign-exchange mechanism, private banks and mobile phones, remain on the drawing-board.
However it rejects any call for a single VAT rate across the EU, and references to a financial transaction tax were removed during committee stage.
The tragedy of Greece is the inevitable outcome of EU leaders' hubris in imposing a single currency and a single interest rate on incompatible economies.
The continued lockout, amid picketing by 1, 050 workers, began after the union failed to win lower health-care costs and a return to a single wage rate.
This is certain to be tumultuous, because imposing a single exchange rate across the entire country will bring overnight price drops in some places and huge rises in others.
It's complex because it's difficult to measure our taxable income and that is a problem regardless of whether or not you use progressive marginal rates or a single flat rate.
This levy would repeal nearly all federal taxes (including the income tax and the payroll tax) and replace them with a single-rate national sales tax on the purchase of all goods and services.
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Rather than adopting a single tax rate per state, as the DMA demanded, the SSUTA made only "cosmetic" changes, and the states are "cheating" on even those, DMA tax counsel George S. Isaacson says.
So, interest rates should perhaps rise for some areas, perhaps fall further for some others: which is, as I say, the problem with the euro, for inevitably a single currency means a single interest rate.
"After a decade of low and stable inflation and continuous growth, the chancellor announced in the pre-Budget report that we will now move to a single low rate of 18%, which will make the system more straightforward and sustainable while incentivising investment and enterprise, " the statement added.
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