And all the Alliance's would-be leaders favour an Albertan-style single-rate federal income tax (of 17%).
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His own reforms, such as introducing a simplified, single-rate foreign-exchange mechanism, private banks and mobile phones, remain on the drawing-board.
This levy would repeal nearly all federal taxes (including the income tax and the payroll tax) and replace them with a single-rate national sales tax on the purchase of all goods and services.
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No Republican, not even Ron Paul, is going beyond the status quo to insist that top marginal tax rates must be cut by at least a third (ideally scrapping the current income-tax system altogether and replacing it with a pro-growth, low-single-rate tax system that does not punish saving, investing and entrepreneurial risk-taking as the current progressive income tax does).
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Separately, London-listed bank Standard Chartered said its income this year grew at a "high single-digit rate".
Many argue that, within Britain, people readily accept a single interest-rate, despite marked regional differences.
Global information technology spending is expected to slow over the next few years, but will still grow at a low- to mid-single-digit rate.
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The banks profit from investing in solar in two ways: They get tax advantages (the investment tax credit) as well as a single-digit rate of return.
Nationwide the single-family vacancy rate ended the year at 2.7 percent while rentals were at 9.4 percent.
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Reminds me of what happened to the TV business when flat panels when from a boom market to low single-digit percentage rate growth.
The company notes some small improvements in housing, including a single-family delinquency rate that has fallen to 3.8% from 3.96% in the second quarter this year.
Today the company is profitable with a run-rate in the low single-digit millions.
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If all goes well, the system could check up to 1, 200 passengers every hour at a single gate -- a rate quick enough to prevent a logjam at even the busiest terminals.
On a constant-exchange-rate basis, an expected high-single-digit percentage increase in worldwide net sales includes sales growth in all regions, ranging from a mid-teens percentage increase in Asia-Pacific to a low-single-digit increase in Japan.
Citi said they want to see high single digit growth before they re-rate the core.
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Owners, he argues, will be forced to scrap older, single-hull ships at an accelerating rate because of tougher environmental regulations.
The Voodoo 4 4500 PCI video accelerator board will feature a single VSA-100 chip, a fill rate of 333-367 megapixels per second and 32M bytes of video memory.
Daniel Himsworth, a spokesman for Woolworths, said that copies of Leon's single were selling at the rate of 40-per-minute at the chain.
Civic Platform has promoted a single rate of 15% for value-added tax and income tax, wants to shrink government and favours faster privatisation of the state's remaining assets.
Since K-rate is usually considered the single best predictor of how well a pitcher will age, from this angle the inevitable comparisons to past Mets greats like Dwight Gooden, Nolan Ryan and Tom Seaver make sense.
The Bush Administration's proposed new savings accounts are a step--a remarkably bold one--toward a radical tax change in the U.S. This revolution is moving toward what I and others have long advocated: a flat tax--an income tax system with a single rate that would apply after a high threshold and that would exempt levies on capital gains, dividends and interest.
The convergence in yields reflects mainly the removal of exchange-rate risk since the creation of the single currency, but that still leaves default risk.
Although we are still not producing phones at a sufficient rate, we have already passed the single-provider approach and moved on to creating industry standards.
The continued lockout, amid picketing by 1, 050 workers, began after the union failed to win lower health-care costs and a return to a single wage rate.
One target is to get inflation down to single figures by the end of the year - the annual inflation rate was 13% in July.
It's about time the concept of taxing all income at a single rate, which presidential candidate Steve Forbes and then-House Majority Leader Dick Armey broached a decade ago, once again takes center stage.
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.
He advocated a single 19% tax rate on all income (including, flat-taxers take note, on capital gains).
Construction of single-family homes fell by 5.5 percent to an annual rate of 829, 000 units, the lowest level since April 1991, while multifamily construction was up 4.4 percent to an annual rate of 332, 000 units.
An annual rate of 917, 000 starts came from both single- and multi-family activity and compares favorably with a pace of just 781, 000 for all of 2012, a year when the rebound kicked into gear, and 609, 000 in 2011.
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