As with a remainder trust, the IRS takes a snapshot of the deal when it's created, assumes the assets will earn a set rate of return--now just 7.2% --and taxes the assets being passed to heirs based on that.
In 2009, the Swedish central bank, the Riksbank, surprised many when it set a rate of -0.25%.
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In more recent years, however, a new set of ocean monitors has documented a decrease in the rate of oceanic heating for the same time period that satellite-based monitoring systems have shown an expanding imbalance between incoming and outgoing energy flows.
For 2004, the agency set a rate last October of 37.5 cents a mile, up 1.5 cents from 2003.
Instead, they will set a single tax rate of 12.5% for all companies.
Under a currency board arrangement, the central bank guarantees the redemption of all notes in circulation at a set exchange rate to the dollar or another foreign currency or basket of currencies.
All other denominations would be tokens, made of a metal too cheap to be worth melting down, that could be exchanged for higher-denomination ones (or for a set amount of the precious metal) at a rate fixed and guaranteed by the government.
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For its part, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) has set previously a target of a 1% rate of inflation, but it has said it may only be able to achieve that in the 2014-15 financial year.
Since then, Swiss bank UBS and the Royal Bank of Scotland have been fined hundreds of millions of pounds for rigging the rate, which is used to set a range of financial deals.
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Mr Browne said the BBA, which was in charge of collating the data used to set Libor - a key bank lending rate which became discredited after revelations of manipulation by banks - would do everything it could to fix the issue.
Suppose that the Bank of Japan set a target for the price level based on an average inflation rate of 1% since 1998.
Generally it happens right after they set the rate, within a couple of weeks or days.
For LIBOR, a borrowing rate is set daily by a panel of banks for ten currencies and for 15 maturities.
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In 2009, HMRC set itself a target of halving the rate of tax credit fraud and error from 9% to 5% by March 2011 and diverted around 400 extra staff to help with the effort.
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In addition to this, the proposed regulations have set a solar power tariff at a rate of 5.45 rupees, or 10 U.S. cents, per kilowatt hour, which is comparable to conventional coal-generated power to make it affordable to the state utilities that are paying for the power, Mr. Kapoor said.
The most common types of bonds pay a set percentage of interest over a specified period of time, referred to as the coupon rate.
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Speaking of solar efficiency, this week solar manufacturer Amonix announced that its concentrated photovoltaic technology has set a new efficiency record with a conversion rate of 33.5 percent.
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Financial regulators across Asia are tightening oversight of how key interest rates are set as a widening investigation world-wide unearths more evidence of systematic rate rigging.
This new rate is the result of the Durbin Amendment, which requires the Fed to set a lower debit interchange rate early this year.
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She told MSPs that the "least worst option" was to set a flat-rate fee for RUK (Rest of UK) students across the sector, to prevent them from being seen as a "cash cow" as "potentially they are now".
For large companies the Sarkozy government has set a long-term goal of reducing the corporate tax rate by 5%, which would pull France closer to the rest of Europe.
Russians and others set up businesses on Cyprus to take advantage of a corporate tax rate of only 10 percent as well as a perceived climate of lax oversight.
Did it mean a significant decrease in air travel, a certain number of LEED certifications, an internally set women and minority retention rate, or something else?
It gives the Scottish government the power from 2015 to set a Scottish income tax rate each year, to raise some 35% of the revenue it spends.
Huawei has a long-running relationship with TalkTalk in the UK. The Ascend G 330 is the latest Huawei-branded product to be launched by TalkTalk, following on the heels of Huawei's Y 201 smartphone, which launched this week, and its innovative YouView set-top box, which TalkTalk is currently installing at a rate of more than 1, 000 per day.
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Keen to keep Malaysia competitive, the prime minister has recently declared war on costs and set a target of zero inflation, though the current 3.5% rate is already the envy of other countries.
This was set at 18% in 2007, far below a top tax rate on earned income of 43%.
Unlike traditional bonds, SIBs do not have a fixed rate of return as financial return depends on the achievement of specific social outcomes set at the start of the bond issue.
Mr Osborne said the Conservatives would set out further details of how they would cut Britain's deficit at a faster rate than Labour before the general election, adding that they would place more emphasis on spending cuts than tax rises.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the federal agency overseeing the programs, has warned that between 2015 and 2021, health spending is set to grow at an average annual rate of 6.2% as a result of the aging of the population, expansion of access to care under the federal health-care law, and an improvement in economic conditions.
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