If a large enough percent of the population becoming ZMP, it creates a large constituency for a basic income payment.
Allied to a raised basic income tax threshold and better-than-feared employment figures, Scottish households have 1.3% more disposable income this year.
The last Liberal Democrat manifesto included a plan to increase basic income tax by one pence, with the money allocated to education.
SNP's plans to put 1p on the basic income-tax rate paid by Scots, in effect annulling the tax cut promised by Mr Brown for next year.
Currently, everybody earning more than a basic income is legally required to make modest payments either towards the State Earnings-Related Pension Scheme or into a private pension.
He also proposes that every citizen be given a small "basic income", so everyone has the financial security to pursue their talents, even if those talents are not very lucrative.
But the dividends are received by investors as if they have already paid basic rate income tax (the corporation tax rate is about the same as the basic income tax rate).
Giving evidence to the European Parliament's Agriculture Committee on 18 November 2010 he said the system of direct payments to farmers would be made fairer with a new basic income support to provide a uniform level of aid.
Mrs Williams said that if Wales were to be given income tax varying powers, the Welsh Liberal Democrats would want to lower the basic income tax rate to make the tax system fairer and continue Lloyd George's progressive and Liberal principles.
This partnership, mainly with private employers, allows the state to provide no more than a basic income for pensioners, representing a much smaller proportion of average earnings for most retired people than in America or European countries like France (see chart 2).
We hear all the time about how basic income taxes, government spending and inflation are redistributive in nature, but not mentioned enough is how both political parties use the tax code to redistribute wealth to favored constituents or individuals who live as Washington would like them to.
But to the recipient the dividend arrives as if it has already had basic rate income tax paid.
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For the first time, basic welfare income subsidies will reach JPY 1 trillion.
But because the profit has been taxed already at the company level those dividends are now received tax free by basic rate income tax payers.
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First, it wants, as noted, to establish a tax-funded universal entitlement to basic living income (set at JPY 70, 000 a month, up from the current JPY 66, 000) for all elderly and retired persons, with, however, a phased reduction and final elimination of the entitlement in relation to pension benefits being received from pension plans into which had previously contributed premiums (i.e, the current system).
Look, say the pundits, at the net effect of his new lower income-tax band (starting next month), the cut in the basic rate of income tax from 23% to 22%, the changes to national insurance, the abolition of the married couples' tax allowance and the mortgage-interest allowance (all starting a year from now), the new child tax credit (from 2001), etc.
It would cut class sizes, provide more teachers and scrap students' tuition fees by putting a penny on the basic rate of income tax.
The Conservatives' proposal essentially removes this limit and extends the tax privilege to all lower-rate and basic-rate income-tax payers who receive interest on their deposits.
The Lib Dems, who want to lower the basic rate of income tax, said the plans would only result in a marginal saving for people on average incomes.
It had already committed itself to cutting 4 pence off the basic rate of income tax to be paid for by taxing the rich and clamping down on avoidance scams.
However, like Roubini, these analysts surprisingly misunderstand basic facts about income, demographics and investment in these facilities, and they use data points that are simply wrong to lead to their conclusions.
Mr Campbell, a former mayor of Vancouver, wants to stimulate the economy by cutting the province's basic rate of income tax to the lowest in Canada, easing regulation of business, and relaxing employment law.
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The Lib Dems have also ditched any policies that might put off potential supporters, such as raising the basic rate of income tax, and they have stopped banging on about things that do not stir the popular imagination, such as proportional representation.
Even if such a wording were possible (which it is not, given the nature of Britain's constitution), Mr Dewar still has problems with writing the rules by which the parliament can use its intended power to vary basic-rate income tax by up to 3p.
The conference also urged the executive to support the Liberal Democrat policy to add a penny onto the basic rate of income tax, provide teaching facilities in Gaelic and other minority languages where there is demand, and ensure that class sizes are reduced across the whole age range of pupils.
And with Nationalist expectations that they would win far more seats than they did having been dashed, Mr Salmond is already having to deal with internal criticism of the campaign he ran, especially the decision to promise to raise the basic rate of income tax by 1p in the pound.
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The report points out that the vast majority (85%) of tax revenues already come from people in the top half of the distribution, but if the government wants to raise more from them, raising the basic rate of income tax for the first time in 40 years would be a decent place to start.
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.
In the most recent quarter, for instance, total revenue rose just 3.4%, but due to operating expense control operating income rose 4.0%, net income rose 9% and net income per basic share rose 11.3%.
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