This weekend, at least two national things will celebrate their 100th birthday: Grand Central Terminal and our national income tax.
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The Swedish national income tax rates are 20 and 25%.
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For example, the Danish national income tax rate is 3.76%.
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The top Danish national income tax rate is 15%.
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Mr Salmond's big test will come in 2010, when he hopes to abolish council tax completely and replace it with a local income tax levied at a flat rate of 3p in each pound of basic-rate national income tax due.
The special Community tax paid by EU staff is generally lower than national rates of income tax for civil servants.
Meanwhile in the private sector, prices have risen by 30%, so with a little luck, the national tax income has risen by nearly that figure.
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The plan, to be introduced in 2014, will set out how much people pay in direct taxes such as national insurance and income tax, outlining proportions used for education, health and welfare.
It added that some of the reforms suggested in the review were already in the pipeline, such as simplification of the benefits system and integrating the operation of National Insurance and income tax.
At least the Fair Tax Plan proposal requires a Constitutional Convention to eliminate the income tax before instituting a national sales tax.
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Others want to replace income tax entirely with a national sales tax.
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You can find the complete breakdown of income tax payments by income at the nonpartisan Tax Foundation and National Taxpayers Union, and a more detailed discussion at the Congressional Budget Office.
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He then substitutes a personal income tax of 9%, a corporate income tax of 9%, and a national sales tax of 9%.
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In 2008 and 2009, the wealthy saw their share of national income decline and their tax rates rise, in large part because their more lightly taxed capital gains fell.
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Senate investigators found that Apple paid little or no corporate income tax to any national government on tens of billions of dollars in overseas income over the past four years.
But people earning a living as self-employed traders may need to pay income tax, national insurance and VAT.
While British soldiers based in Germany pay income tax and national insurance they have other tax breaks, such as cheap fuel.
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Labour's Nick Brown, who tabled the question, said it was "reassuring" that Mr Lester's terms had changed, but claimed: "The purpose of these arrangements was to avoid paying income tax and National Insurance".
For once, Labour MPs joined them in the division lobbies, even though Labour MPs have been cooler about the National Assembly for Wales acquiring income tax powers than their counterparts in the assembly have.
Businessman Herman Cain, who has his poll ratings surge in recent weeks, proposes a "9-9-9" tax plan that would replace the current code with a 9% income tax, business tax, and a national sales tax.
No, really: if you work 25 hours a week on the minimum wage then your marginal tax rate is, without even considering any reduction in in work benefits, over 40% when you include both income tax and national insurance.
The size of the gap between spending and tax revenues - with the government taking in just three pounds for every four pounds it spends - makes it likely that all the big revenue raisers - (income tax, national insurance, and VAT) may have to be tapped in the future.
Columbia law professor Michael Graetz proposed to replace the income tax with a VAT (a kind of national sales tax common in the rest of the world) for most households.
Ron Paul supports the elimination of the income tax altogether, and the implementation of a national consumption tax or even no new tax at all (apparently retaining the existing payroll tax, which is a sort of income tax, and having a much smaller federal government).
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That will make it harder to simplify the way national-insurance contributions interact with personal-income tax.
Aligning employers' National Insurance floor with the personal allowance of income tax - announced March 1998.
He favors abolishing the income tax in favor of a national sales tax.
He also wants to abolish the Internal Revenue Service and replace the federal income tax with a 23% national sales tax.
Brazilians pay too much tax (32% of national income goes to the government, which spends an even larger slice) and too often get poor services in return.
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