Likewise, in Indiana, the economy boomed after a flat rate went into effect in 2003.
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The strikers want this system extended to cable TV ads, which currently pay a flat rate.
Taxes are levied at a flat rate on all distillers, irrespective of their size.
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Currently, company employees and government workers pay premiums based on income, while the self-employed pay a flat rate.
While wages can still be taxed progressively, this allows a flat rate for dividends, capital gains and rents.
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The corporate tax rate should be halved, to a flat rate of 17.5%.
Currently the debate is whether Internet access should be billed by the minute or at a flat rate per month.
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That seems to exempt long-distance service that is charged at a flat rate per minute, as most is these days.
At the same time, the utilities charge residential consumers a flat rate, giving them no incentive to run appliances during off-peak hours.
When electricity first came here, dos Santos says, the utility charged a flat rate to entice people to go on the meter.
Federal Reserve already charges for Fed funds by the minute, and the Bank of Japan charges a flat rate every four hours.
The advertisers however want to scrap the "pay-per-play" system altogether and instead pay actors a flat rate for all their ad work.
As of now, most residential and commercial customers still pay their electric utility a flat rate multiplied by the kilowatt hours they use.
In 2004 under President George W. Bush, Washington let corporations temporarily bring money from offshore profits at a flat rate of around 5.25%.
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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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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The entire tax could be rebated at a flat rate to all Americans no matter how much energy they use, making such a shift moderately progressive.
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%.
Its Digital One Rate, offering a flat rate anywhere in the country with no roaming fees, has attracted more than 500, 000 subscribers since its launch in May.
How do you think gamers will react when they learn how much they have to pay to stream games they could have purchased in store for a flat rate?
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If you want advice delivered in person, consider a fee-only planner, meaning one who charges either an hourly rate or a flat rate, as opposed to one who lives off sales commissions.
David Edmonds, head of telecommunications watchdog Oftel, said on Wednesday he had taken "at face value" Altavista's announcement in March that it would give web-users access to the internet at a flat rate.
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.
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.
The Essex branch of the Police Federation welcomed the appointment but said it was concerned senior officers were getting allowances - such as a flat rate 15% of salary for being in a senior position - while rank and file officers had seen competency payments stopped.
Previous info indicated the service would focus more heavily on movies than the back catalog of TV shows that is a part of Netflix Watch Instantly and Amazon Prime Instant Video, and Bloomberg reports Redbox will break with their models by paying its content providers per subscriber cable TV-style, instead of a flat rate decided up front.
After a certain threshold of about 24 hours of continuous use, the bill accumulated at by-the-hour or by-the-minute rate typically exceeds the cost of otherwise paying a flat daily rate on a traditional car rental.
In practice progressivity has tended to imply more than one rate of tax, for instance, which is necessarily less simple than a flat tax rate.
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