In ten recent examples, Flat Tax implementation did not lead to a meaningful decline in revenues in either nominal terms or as a percentage of GDP.
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The number of deaths in recent years has been flat, says Ken Camp, Hillenbrand CEO.
The real estate site found that relative to median income, which has remained painfully flat in recent years, home prices in the 30 largest cities are still higher than their pre-bubble historic norms.
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This is bad news considering that refineries had been running flat out in recent months to keep up with high demand.
And it questions whether Western incomes will remain flat: recent wage rises in America and pay claims in Europe and Japan may start to reverse the balance back away from capital.
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While premiums to book value have eroded in recent quarters as share prices stagnated and dividends were flat or cut, keep in mind that the relative attractiveness of the Agency MREIT yields has actually increased as competing investment yields have fallen.
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In terms of jobless claims, continuing claims rose by 10, 000 to 3, 730, 000 in the most recent report, as the insured employment rate remained flat at 3%.
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This virtuous form of rivalry helps explain why so many nations in recent years have lowered tax rates and adopted simple and fair flat tax systems.
Savings and loan institutions, recent victims of the flat yield curve with huge redemptions in outstanding fixed-mortgage paper, will be able to operate at wider spreads.
While many have praised Estonia's flat tax, at a recent start-up conference in the capital's technical university complaints were raised over the lack of arrangements for stock options, a favored tool for attracting talent.
Apollo's projection of a flat to low-single-digit increase for enrollment in the most recent quarter led analysts to cut earnings forecasts by 12% to 38 cents, down from 83 cents a year earlier.
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Nearly three-quarters of 500 low-income families questioned by Oxfam Hong Kong in a recent survey had been on the list for more than 4 years without being offered a flat.
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