Quite a lot of people who had to pay the rates thought they were unfair as they complained bitterly, changed their behaviour to avoid paying them and, from those countries where this is possible, simply left to avoid them.
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Dudley Council said the decision to freeze council tax meant that residents would continue to pay the lowest rates in the Black Country and the second lowest in the West Midlands.
Most families have little incentive to pay the higher rates associated with overtime work.
In France, as in the U.S., the income tax system is progressive which means that all taxpayers pay the same tax rates for the same levels of income.
The presidential bid of Rick Perry, the governor of Texas, came to grief partly because he had signed a law allowing certain undocumented students to pay the same rates as other state residents at public universities.
And people have an added incentive to forgo health insurance because the law says they can wait until they are sick to buy coverage and still pay the same rates as though they had been covered all along.
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The proposed pay rates were agreed by the Scottish Agricultural Wages Board.
Beyond the detailed tables on overtime pay rates, the report's subtext is clear - police practices are stuck in another century.
The generally accepted explanation for this is that those who would pay the higher income tax rates prefer munis to the other bonds and thus invest disproportionately in them.
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Five years ago the club in Belford was told it had to pay rates on the shed in which it stores race baskets.
How else can we explain how those with the most financial resources pay the lowest tax rates?
But Westergren doesn't expect to terrestrial and Internet radio stations to pay the same royalty rates anytime soon.
Very few insurance companies pay the same credited rates to all annuity holders.
Still, even with those export sales, government wind subsidies cause Danish customers to pay the highest electricity rates in Europe.
Banks are left with lending to riskier companies, most of which cannot pay the high interest rates that banks should demand.
That starts with creating a consumer-credit culture in the first place, plus many of the things lenders take for granted in North America, like individual credit histories, and finely tuned risk-based pricing where the riskiest customers pay the highest interest rates, to cover expected losses.
The assumption was that if every bank was told it could not lend - for example - more than 20 times its capital, large numbers of those banks would lend everything they could to reckless gamblers prepared to pay the highest interest rates, till gamblers and banks went bust.
The civil-service unions are equally clever in arguing that the abuses stem from the pay structure: the ministries like to keep basic pay rates low in order to minimise their pension contributions and other social charges.
Some say the hedge fund managers are risking their own money and deserve to pay the lower capital gains tax rates on the profits.
While Korean insurers have a steady cash flow, slower economic growth and low interest rates pose threats, analysts said, because insurers need to pay the relatively high interest rates pledged to existing policy holders.
Democrats in the House and Senate have proposed alternative cuts that are smarter, close tax loopholes and ask that the wealthiest Americans pay at least the same tax rates as those in the middle class.
This suggests that the base pay rates remain too low and that many workers are struggling to make ends meet given the rising cost of living in China and the difficulty that single children have in supporting two aging parents.
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Though the pay increase will vary because Medicaid rates differ from state to state, the average pay increase will be about 73 percent given Medicare last year paid on average 66 percent of what Medicare pays for certain primary care services, according to a Henry J.
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On the positive side, it would seem that, thanks to the often substantial increase in the basic allowance and the reduction or removal of exemptions, fears that the flat tax reforms would greatly reduce personal-income tax progressivity the notion according to which economic agents should pay higher effective tax rates the more they earn have been overblown.
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Although many London-based staff receive a weighting allowance, most public sector staff are subject to the same rates of pay whether they work in the north or the south.
The Bank of England and the development of government bonds enabled the British government to borrow prodigious sums of money at low interest rates, in contrast with the usurious rates the French monarchy had to pay.
In addition to submitting the required SPAs, states are also in the process of reprogramming their claims processing systems to pay at the appropriate, higher rates.
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Moreover, under the new payment schemes, even when Medicare starts to pay its bills again, the rates for individual tests are likely to come down.
That people are doing work at pay rates that the writer disapproves of.
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The average doesn't include extra fees, known as points, which most borrowers must pay to get the lowest rates.
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