In the 5th arrondissement, a flat of the same size sells for upwards of 260, 000 euros and rents for around 900 euros a month.
Generate the same amount of revenue with a flat personal income tax of 9%, a corporate flat tax of 9% and a consumption tax of 9%.
The school was built into a down-slope, so the recess yard in front of the school was a flat pad of concrete below street level.
Americans from Utah to Massachusetts have realized the benefits of switching to a flat rate of tax as applied to their income.
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Of course, in the grand tradition of heated debate, a flat statement of fact by the creator wasn't enough to sway some partisans.
Taking their cue from a line in which one of the characters describes the Porters' one-room flat as "a very narrow strip of plain hell, " they have built a flat black wall five feet from the lip of the theater's stage, creating a claustrophobically narrow playing area in which the action takes place.
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To process the payments, businesses must rely on third-party merchant service providers (MSPs), which offer a dizzying array of rate structures that range from a flat rate to a percentage of the amount charged to the card.
Mr. Loughner spent his adolescence just north of Tucson, in a community where a flat carpet of strip malls and low subdivisions dissolves at its fringes into dirt roads and rolling, saguaro-spiked desert.
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The average of Trefis member forecasts for Dish Network Pay TV Market Share indicate a flat trend of around 14% over our forecast period, compared to the baseline Trefis estimate of a decrease from 13.5% in 2010 to 13.2% by the end of the Trefis forecast period.
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The sample comes from a hole about 2.5 inches deep drilled on Feb. 8 in a flat plate of sedimentary bedrock that the space agency managers have named "John Klein" in memory of a Mars Science Laboratory deputy project manager who died in 2011.
And as a long-time advocate of a flat tax, I would like to get rid of all special tax breaks.
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Then in 2001 Russia, facing widespread tax evasion, moved to a flat tax of 13% on personal income.
The corporate tax rate should be halved, to a flat rate of 17.5%.
Calling my bluff, Ricardo navigated into a flat stretch of water and told me to check my skin for open cuts (piranha bait).
In 2004 under President George W. Bush, Washington let corporations temporarily bring money from offshore profits at a flat rate of around 5.25%.
But roughly three dozen closed-end funds have "managed distributions" like Cornerstone's, seeking to pay out a flat rate of income regardless of market returns.
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For a flat fee of 130 Argentinean pesos, tour-goers receive an Italian crystal wine glass along with a map indicating each stop on the circuit.
In 2004, George W. Bush allowed a tax holiday so corporations could bring profits back to the United States and only pay a flat rate of 5.25%.
After being mired in stagnation for years, in 2001 Russia implemented a flat tax of 13% for individuals, along with a 15% rate for most business income.
BATS, for example, charges a flat fee of .0024 cents for removing liquidity and rebates .0022 cents for adding it (most ECNs have this type of pricing model).
Mobilcom, which charges a flat rate of DM0.19 a minute for long-distance calls in Germany (a third of Deutsche Telekom's peak rate), is so popular that most customers trying to reach its network find only a busy signal.
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.
That was when the city authorities, in a bid to attract drivers of private cars off the road, slashed the ticket prices on the subway -- by more than half in some cases -- and introduced a flat fare of 2 Yuan (30 U.S. cents) with unlimited transfers.
"Because all-in-ones integrate a desktop tower into the back of a flat-panel display, they typically use smaller, less powerful notebook components that don't require a lot of space, " said Steve Smith, senior business manager of consumer desktops, Acer America.
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Over the centuries, the river had slowly carried away mountainsides, tumbling and cracking rock, reducing boulders into a rainbow of smooth, flat stones the size of a child's hand.
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.
Schering's guidance had already been cut back dramatically, while Lilly met for the quarter but forecast that 2003 earnings could be flat with 2002, representing the second year in a row of flat growth for the drugmaker.
The amount of the penalty tax is the larger of a flat dollar amount or a percentage of household income.
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Set the flat end on a perfectly flat surface, and a bubble of air points straight up.
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