The average nominal GDP growth among these thirteen flat-tax countries was 21.8% in 2007.
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In a flat-tax system, these deductions would not be as critical as they are our highly progressive system.
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Mr. Brown is a man of ideas, having run for president in 1992 on a bold flat-tax agenda.
Merkel at least half-heartedly ran as a reformer, even nominating a flat-tax proponent as her shadow finance minister.
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In flat-tax countries, taxpayers in the highest brackets move from consumption or tax-sheltered investments to more productive, taxable investments.
Romania and, even more humiliating, Slovakia, with their flat-tax regimes, look more attractive.
In a page taken from the flat-tax book, Faso wants to substitute full expensing for capital expenditures--no more depreciation schedules.
Second, the rich can exploit current complexities to avoid taxes in ways that could be curtailed in a flat-tax system.
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Flat-tax pioneer Estonia is even reducing its rate by two percentage points a year until it drops to 20% in 2007.
Flat-tax fans also think that it could trigger a new economic dynamism, as people respond to the enhanced incentive to work harder.
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Our plan allows us to have a lower flat-tax rate and produces results that should appeal to conservatives as well as liberals.
Flat-tax proponents say that the reform would yield many economic benefits.
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When Bulgaria did it, tax revenues actually rose 5.24% in the first year of flat-tax implementation, compared to the last year of the previous tax system.
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For those yet to adopt a flat tax rate, the incentives for adoption (from the perspective of attracting investors) are weakening as the flat-tax club increases in size.
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Like most flat-tax proposals, the payroll tax is left as-is.
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Alvin Rabushka, a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, believes it's only a matter of time before an emerging economic superpower like China or India goes the flat-tax route.
On balance, it would seem that the flat-tax revolution is more likely than not to slow, and even reverse eventually, as the income gap between western and east-central Europe narrows.
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One of her first actions was to introduce the poll tax or community charge, a flat-rate tax for local services which was based on individuals rather than the value of the property in which they lived.
Tax compliance increased and the inflation-adjusted revenues from the personal income tax rose more than 20 percent annually during the three years following the adoption of the flat-rate tax.
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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.
Yet as time passes, flat-rate tax systems may become increasingly entrenched.
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The best form of welfare is a good, high-paying job, and the best tax for creating jobs is a low-rate flat tax.
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His government then adopted a flat-rate income tax, ending Russia's days as an economic basket case.
From 2009, all but the richest Poles will pay a flat-rate income tax of 18%.
The hope is that a flat-rate income tax of 16% and a reduction in company taxes will kickstart growth.
Today there are at least 40 governments with flat tax-type systems, most of which made the switch in just the last decade.
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Beginning in January 2001, the newly elected Putin administration shifted to a 13 percent flat-rate income tax and also sharply reduced the payroll tax rate.
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Even if your withholding rate rises because of possible tax-rate increases after 2012, you can develop a tax-deferral strategy if the flat rate is less than your marginal tax rate.
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