Daily jail costs alone are more than three times the state and local rate.
There will always be plenty of other workers like those Estonian dockers, earning the local rate for the job.
The tricksters then permanently divert the number to a local rate call and scoop up the difference between the premium rate and the local call.
"Patients should complain to their practice if they are concerned calls to their GP practice are costing more than a local rate call, " he said.
Arizona has the highest combined state and local rate of 12.7%.
The unemployment rate in five other UK regions is higher than the local rate: North East (9.3%), London (7.3%), Scotland (6.7%), Wales (6.2%) and Yorkshire and Humber (6.2%).
His other big mission, both in opposition and in power, was to revive the campaign for a cut in the local rate of Corporation Tax, after the former Treasury mandarin Sir David Varney appeared to bury the campaign in a report to Gordon Brown.
By comparison, the combined state and local top rate in New York is 12.7%.
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Perhaps when your local crime maps appears you'll go online and have a nose at your local crime rate.
And because cities such as Baltimore and Bethesda also impose income taxes, the state-local tax rate can go as high as 9.45%.
New York City dwellers face a combined state and local marginal rate as high as 12.6%, a rate that may or may not be mitigated by the elusive federal deduction for state taxes.
They looked at population growth between 2010 and 2011 as an indication of overall business growth, the local unemployment rate, the median income of residents, and the cost of living, which reflects how far your dollar will go.
After controlling for population and the number of police officers in each county, the study found that a one percent point increase in the local unemployment rate leads to a 6.4 percentage point increase in the number of traffic tickets.
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Digital delivery means readers outside the New York area no longer face a choice between paying more for the Times or settling for a second-rate local paper like, say, the Gainesville Sun.
Jed Kolko at Trulia shows that in nearly every market, potential buyers with an expected holding period of five years or more and a combined state and local marginal tax rate of 25 percent or higher are better off financially owning than renting.
The average state and local effective tax rate on telecom services--some of which is paid directly by customers and some of which is levied on the companies, who then pass on the cost--is 14.17% throughout the U.S., compared to 6.12% for general businesses, according to the COST study.
Within the Latin American forex space, the Mexican peso now looks more attractive from a carry perspective that is where low interest rate countries like Japan buy the local debt of higher interest rate countries.
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Even those would not be allowed, by law, to exceed the inflation rate unless local voters said otherwise in a referendum.
While wandering through an attractive neighbourhood, you might ask your mobile device about apartments for rent nearby, the crime rate, local amenities, and so on.
What really matters is total world consumption, the sum of all local consumptions, which is the product of local population times the local per capita consumption rate.
Daniels says that survey respondents were likely to rate their local area as business friendly if they were aware of training and networking programs offered in the vicinity.
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Hennepin County's Johnson notes that if there were a uniform tax system, a simple software program that includes a base state tax rate plus local options could be used by businesses to easily calculate and administer sales tax.
The AP news agency quoted a local doctor as saying he was outraged when a tax collector tried to charge him a higher rate than that paid by local business owners.
"We have one more year of rate increases that local governments will have to pay, " DiNapoli said.
At present, the petrodollars are converted into local money at a fixed rate and doled out as governments see fit.
This week the government placed three-month treasury bills in the local market at an interest rate of 8.5%, down from 16% in November.
And to minimise the costs facing businesses, the government will enable local authorities to grant business rate relief, by funding at least three quarters of their costs.
Homeowners need to recognize that when they vote for a local bond deal or tax rate increase, the resulting financial debt burden may ultimately fall on their children.
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