Within the categories that are being cut, such as defense, the percentage reduction is as high as 7.8 percent.
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The percentage reduction each year in the percentage of babes and innocents dying as a result of extreme poverty.
They have projected fully a half a percentage point reduction in GDP growth.
If the current safety net for the jobless is not extended along with the 2 percentage point reduction on the payroll tax, consumer confidence must be further shaken.
This week, the Nihon Keisai, Japan's main business daily, reported that the mandarins want to eliminate many tax exemptions, such as those for loss-making companies and reserves set aside for bonuses, to offset the proposed 2.5 percentage point reduction in the nominal tax rate.
The Census Bureau tested a voluntary version of the survey before officially rolling out the ACS in 2005, and found a 20.7-percentage-point reduction in mailback response rate.
The greatest threat to the integrity of the Social Security system was removed by allowing the temporary, 2-percentage-point reduction in the Social Security Payroll tax to lapse.
Countries are ordered by decreasing percentage of poverty reduction achieved.
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Finally, the integrity of the Social Security system and its financial strength should be protected by allowing the temporary 2 percentage-point reduction in the Social Security payroll tax to lapse.
"By September next year, we will become the first nation using 100%-renewable energy, and number one in percentage greenhouse gas reduction in the Pacific and elsewhere, " Foua Toloa told a meeting on the fringes of the UN climate conference.
But during the December 23 pro forma session, the Senate overrode the prior unanimous consent agreement by unanimous consent to allow the Senate to pass a temporary extension of the temporary 2 percentage point payroll tax reduction.
So deficit reduction of one percentage point could knock up to 1.7 percentage points off growth.
Trulia even tracks local price reduction trends like percentage of properties with price cuts, average discounts and average number of days before a cut.
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The study suggests that each reduction of one percentage point in the marginal tax rate could increase the number of new businesses by as much as 2%.
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Although new efforts are underway in Western capitals to make bonds more readily rescheduable -- by such methods as a dramatic reduction in the percentage of bond holders who must agree to a change in the maturity structure -- it may be too late for Russia.
The agreement also includes a two-percentage-point payroll-tax reduction, lowering Social Security taxes for most Americans to 4.2% from 6.2% for one year.
Some of these changes involved the reduction of a small percentage of marketing positions, to better align our resources with our business needs and clarify roles across the marketing function.
Foreign multinationals from high-tax countries that open subsidiaries in the U.S. lower their effective tax rate by maybe 0.5 percentage points, with most of that reduction going to Japanese multinationals simply because they are taxed even more back in Tokyo, the study found.
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In March, the central bank cut its lending rate by a quarter percentage point, which was its second rate reduction in 2013.
Following two days of sell-offs in stock markets across the globe--and a week ahead of its Federal Open Market Committee meeting (when the rate cut was expected)-- the Fed slashed short-term interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point, its single most dramatic rate reduction since 1984.
The bank cut its lending rate by a quarter percentage point on Jan. 29--the first reduction since April 2012.
In the light of that outlook, the Committee judged at its October meeting that an immediate reduction in Bank Rate of 0.5 percentage points to 4.5% was necessary to meet the 2% target for CPI inflation in the medium term.
Historically, a reduction in top tax rates has led to a greater percentage of income tax revenue paid by the higher earners.
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From their database, the authors find that a one percentage point difference in taxes results in a 0.225% reduction in the share price at takeover, and calculating backwards this indicates that the effective tax rate is 31% of the statutory one.
The third successive rate cut this year takes the total reduction in policy rates since April 2012 to 1.25 percentage points.
The survey's findings "probably guarantee" a rate cut next month, he said, with attention now focusing on whether the reduction would be of one quarter or one half of a percentage point.
Thirteen of the 17 countries with enough observations to compute annual effective tax rates in both 2009 and 1999 experienced a reduction in their tax rate with a median decline of 5 percentage points.
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The RBI's third successive rate cut this year takes the total reduction in policy rates since April 2012 to one and a quarter percentage points.
We chose the amount of long-term deficit reduction to ensure that our debt and deficits were falling as a percentage of our economy -- an important metric for ensuring confidence in whether the United States is still the best place to make long-term investments.
From 2003 to 2007, the primary balance deficit was reduced from JPY 28 trillion to JPY 6 trillion, a reduction of JPY 22 trillion, equivalent to increasing the consumption tax by 9 percentage points.
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