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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Passed down from the Cabinet of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Friday, the plan is anchored by a 6 percent flat tax on energy production revenue, including both direct earnings and funds associated with feed-in tariffs (FITs).
Private residential construction companies, including remodelers, posted an adjusted net profit margin of nearly 4 percent in 2011, following flat margins in 2010 and -1 percent margins in 2009, Sageworks data shows.
Kerry's favorability rating remained flat, at 52 percent in both polls.
Services revenue was down 5 percent, flat adjusting for currency.
The net spread was 0.95 percent (flat).
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The bottom dropped out for the fast-growing brand a darling of the investment community, retailers and consumers with a second-quarter report released in August where the company changed its outlook from expecting a revenue growth of no less than 30 percent for 2011 and an EBITDA margin of minimum 40 percent with flat revenue and EBITDA margins in the low thirties for the year.
Farley said the city's comprehensive anti-smoking program cut adult smoking rates by nearly a third from 21.5 percent in 2002 to 14.8 percent in 2011 but the youth rate has remained flat, at 8.5 percent, since 2007.
Even before the longstanding economic slump began in 2008, U.S. emissions remained essentially flat, rising merely 2 percent between 2000 and 2007.
The company then nips a flat 2.75-percent fee from all transactions.
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Forty-seven percent of all flat-panel televisions shipped worldwide in 2015 will have some form of Internet connectivity, up from more than 25% today, tech tracker DisplaySearch said Tuesday.
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First-quarter revenues were essentially flat, declining 1.2 percent year-over-year to KRW 1.2 trillion (USD 1.1 billion).
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Lawmakers had been considering a flat income tax of about 3 percent.
Global market demand for large size LCD panels was flat with shipments rising just 1 percent quarter-on-quarter to 179 million units, while average sales prices of panels fell across the notebook PC, monitor and TV panel segments.
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It said profits dropped 64 percent, and sales remained flat compared to last year.
Net revenues in Europe were flat, where generic drugs fell 12 percent due primarily to a stronger dollar, and branded drug sales grew 46%.
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In comparison, it said Apple's market share will peak at 22 percent in 2013 and remain flat through 2018, seeing a widening gap with Samsung.
Data from Smith Travel Research indicates occupancy levels will stay nearly flat growing just .5 percent next year, after barely more than 1 percent improvement this year.
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U.S. payments volume, a measure of the total dollar amount of transactions made with debit and credit cards, fell by three percent in April and remained flat over the first four weeks of May compared with last year.
Sales were basically flat in 2010 and edged up about 1 percent in 2011.
On a constant-exchange-rate basis, total sales also increased 2 percent and same store sales were flat.
Nvidia said it expects sales to rise between 4 to 6 percent, while margins will remain flat.
The National Association of Realtors expects sales of existing homes to remain essentially flat, declining a slight 0.6 percent from 6.48 million in 2006 to 6.44 million in 2007.
For the fourth quarter, Ralph Lauren said it expects its consolidated net revenue to be up by a mid-single-digit percentage, reflecting an 8 percent to 11 percent increase in retail revenue and flat wholesale revenue.
Riffel said business at his coffee shop was flat last summer, but sales are up 10 percent for the first quarter of 2009.
Corning (GLW) announced on Wednesday that its profit dropped 53 percent in the fourth quarter but revenue rose 7 percent on stronger sales of glass for flat-screens.
Similarly, the percentage of respondents who plan to commit less to capital fell to 13 percent from 16 percent, even though a majority reported flat or worsening business conditions, and many said they had cut commitments in the previous month.
This Friday showed Brazil industrial production flat on the month in December and down nearly 4 percent on the year.
Samsung's shipments of flat panel TVs outstripped market growth of more than 10 percent on-quarter, which was led by demand in emerging markets.
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Canalys doesn't believe Windows 8 or RT moved the needle for demand, noting that laptop shipments were flat year-over-year where tablets surged 75 percent.
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