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We are not creating high-value jobs at a rate that can absorb people who are losing high-value jobs of the old economy.
These twelve resorts feature excellent value and first-rate skiing at every conceivable price point.
Spain is reversing its fiscal stimulus by raising its main value-added tax rate next year.
Italy's value-added tax rate on hotels and bars is 10%, compared with 7% in most European countries.
Some goods and services now subject to a reduced value-added tax rate will have to bear the full 16% rate.
Our index suggests that a fair-value rate would be 3.54 yuan to the dollar, compared with the current rate of 6.78.
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Rising rates and inflation could decimate the value of a low-rate, fixed-income portfolio.
Eventually the falling dollar eroded the value of their fixed-rate mortgages.
This is the value of an exchange-rate peg in an economy such as Hong Kong's: adjustment to external shocks takes place through changes to domestic prices, rather than through exchange-rate levels.
The most damaging was a move by the government at the start of 2009 to double the rate of value-added tax on pay-TV to 20%.
These cut-rate homes offer value for two main types of real estate investors: owner-occupants and distressed-property specialists.
These negotiations will determine the rate of integer-value decay and will revalue numbers accordingly.
Ms Salgado is already raising value-added tax, with the top rate going from 16% to 18% in July.
Consumers may cut back on spending now that the main rate of VAT (value-added tax) has returned to 17.5% after 13 months at 15% to counter the recession.
An existing 16.5% tax on wholesale transactions is to become a value-added tax at a slightly lower rate, though existing exemptions will survive (a mistake, say some economists).
Wen said the government is focused on stabilizing the economy and will use fiscal policy such as value-added taxes, acceleration of interest rate reform and wider involvement of private investment in the economy rather than government spending increases.
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The manifesto confirms its ambitions on tax: for a lower 10p starting rate of income tax, for a cut from 8% to 5% in value-added tax on fuel, and for no increase in the 23p basic rate nor the 40p higher rate of income tax.
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.
Ms Farrell notes that, if the Turkish government managed to collect 90% of its value-added-tax revenues instead of the current 64%, it could lower the tax rate from 18% to 13% without sacrificing any income.
In some countries that had exchange-rate appreciations exports moved up the value chain: this also helped.
While the rate of negative equity is comparable between the two sets of borrowers, the delinquency rate and loan-to-value ratios are substantially lower for borrowers who purchased homes in 2010 (see Figure 2).
The substantial drop in delinquency rate and loan-to-value ratio for borrowers who purchased homes in the years after 2007 is likely a product of the tightened lending standards implemented in the post-bubble housing market.
With a GRAT, the owner of a company can transfer stock in the firm into a trust for the benefit of heirs and take back an annuity representing the current value of that stock plus a government-specified interest rate, currently 1%.
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Over the last three years, per-share book value has grown at a 14% annual rate.
But with coupons closer to 3.7% today, the same two-point rate increase cuts the bond's value by 28%.
That is one reason why even in floating-rate regimes, governments pay attention to the value of their currencies.
The biggest success rate occurs when the loan-to-value ratio is below 66%, a condition that rules out recent subprime borrowers.
This eases the cash flow of a strapped business, and the time value of money makes such investment yield a higher (after-tax) rate of return.
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