Under the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme, branded-drug companies are allowed to make a profit of up to 21 per cent on any medicines they sell to the NHS. They have a free hand to set the prices when they are introduced but, every five years, the government and the companies agree an across-the-board cut on all drugs.
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Before the reforms, the state bought rice from state farms and co-operatives at 82 chon per kilo (100 chon make one won, worth less than a cent at the official exchange rate).
This has been done with thousands of the patents involved in the H.264 video encoding format, so that operating system makers wishing to make use of the codec pay a 20 cent (13p) charge per sale to cover the rights-holders claims without having to negotiate with each one.
Clearly, a 90 cent minimum wage would make no darn difference to anyone. 6 year olds get more than that these days for tidying their rooms.
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Even better, the Irish government goes out of its way to make sure companies don't pay a single red cent in double taxation when they eventually repatriate their profits to their home countries.
Catholic recruits such as Mr Kerr have helped to transform policing in Northern Ireland: the profession was once overwhelmingly a Protestant preserve, but after a decade of affirmative action Catholics now make up 30 per cent of the PSNI's total strength of around 7, 300.
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According to the couple, they received a billing statement in December that showed the two-cent shortage, but the document did not make clear that the sum was past due.
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This increase in the oil spill liability tax moves forward a planned increase in 2017 of 1 cent per barrel, and sets a tax of 10 cents per barrel starting in 2017 to make sure that there is long-term oil industry financing for the Trust Fund.
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