The tax rate could very well be a flat tax system of say 20% gross income.

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But, best of all, Bulgaria has a flat tax system with a 10% income tax rate and a 10% corporate tax rate.

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Effective January 2013, Slovakia, with a 19% flat income tax system, raised its corporate tax rate to 23%, and introduced a second 25% tax bracket for higher personal incomes.

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The advertisers however want to scrap the "pay-per-play" system altogether and instead pay actors a flat rate for all their ad work.

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"Under this new system, you would get the full flat-rate pension, plus you would continue to get your public sector occupational scheme, " he added.

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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.

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The strikers want this system extended to cable TV ads, which currently pay a flat rate.

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It also plans to unshackle health-care costs from labor costs by freezing the amount employers pay into the system and shifting from income-based contributions toward a flat-rate health insurance premium.

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Contributions and benefits were both flat rate and everyone, regardless of income, was entitled to be part of the system.

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First, he demonstrates a complete lack of familiarity with the flat tax and seemingly assumes that tax reform simply means imposing one rate on the current system.

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