The people who are staying at the hotel are paying a rate which could get them a room at a much lesser property.
What matters, in large part, is the difference between the interest rate the borrower is paying and the inflation rate in general.
After a certain threshold of about 24 hours of continuous use, the bill accumulated at by-the-hour or by-the-minute rate typically exceeds the cost of otherwise paying a flat daily rate on a traditional car rental.
As with all hired guns, the emphasis is on paying the going rate and then some.
Users may feel as though they are paying an hourly rate for their electricity.
Yerke has been paying a discounted rate to Exelon-owned ComEd, but that rate is being phased out.
So the secretary is paying a higher rate than Warren Buffett as a percentage of their income.
In both systems, the would-be employers provided room and board instead of paying the going rate for free laborers.
Such swaps had the university paying a fixed rate to, and simultaneously receiving a variable rate from, a counterparty.
There is also the problem of reinvestment risk, meaning current bonds are paying a lower rate of interest than maturing bonds are.
On this measure, then, American shares in the aggregate are paying a lower rate of return than a perfectly safe alternative investment.
At the moment a company in northern Italy can be paying an interest rate 2.5% higher than a German company to the north.
"Previously, we did all our profiling via manual online searches, and only VIPs and guests paying a certain rate were researched, " Lema says.
Without the low interest rates, some borrowers are simply giving up because they can't earn enough to justify paying a higher rate or throwing in additional equity.
Yerke has been paying a discounted rate to Exelon (nyse: EXC - news - people )-owned ComEd, but that rate is being phased out.
It quotes a review in Zambia which found that between 2005 and 2009, 500, 000 copper mine workers were paying a higher rate of tax than major multinational mining firms.
Banks can deposit all kinds of collateral with euro-area central banks in return for cash without paying a penalty rate, while, until the latest joint operation, the Fed still demanded a penalty rate as did the Bank of England, which also accepted only high-quality collateral.
Think what that says to middle-class American families who are trying to get by, who are paying their taxes and paying at a rate higher than Warren Buffett or numbers of millionaires and billionaires across the country -- that one side's answer to that is, well, the wealthy -- it should be an option.
So how to strike the tenuous balance between keeping employees happy and paying them a reasonable rate?
The Liberal Democrats also want to reduce the corporate-tax rate, paying for it by removing "complex reliefs".
Either system has the end effect that individuals are paying their highest marginal rate on their dividend income.
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Firms that finance this equipment with borrowed money may end up paying a negative tax rate on the deal.
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We are not entitled to receive anything as a surviving partner despite paying at the same rate as a married couple.
Warren Buffett drew lots of attention to himself a few months ago for paying a very low rate of income taxes.
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Some (though far from all) in the industry now argue that they ought to be paying at twice the rate, or 20%.
These can be particularly beneficial if you max out your contributions or expect to be paying a higher tax rate in retirement.
Democrats, eager to align themselves with middle-class voters, quickly assailed Romney for paying a low tax rate while earning millions of dollars.
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