The issuer agrees to pay you a stated rate of interest over a specified period of time, at the end of which the issuer will return the original sum.

债券发行人同意在规定的期间内支付固定的利息，并在债券到期时返还本金。

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However, this study did present a reasonable enough sample size (132 cats) that the actual number shouldn't be drastically different than the stated rate.

尽管如此，这项规模可观的(132只猫加入)研究结果的确提供了一个参考数据，这个数据相信不会和实际情况相差太多。

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If no further action is taken by Congress, the maximum individual income tax bracket would increase to a stated rate of 39.6%, but an effective marginal rate of 40.8% for most high-bracket taxpayers due to a limitation on itemized deductions that would also come back in 2013.

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Personally, I think that is a rather low threshold for hitting the highest stated tax rate, essentially creating a rather stiff flat rate of 9.55% on significant amounts of income.

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On top of that there will be (for high-bracket savers) a 3.8% investment tax surcharge plus a clawback of deductions that effectively adds 1.2 percentage points to the stated tax rate.

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