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Recent Examples of flat tax
In the summer, Italy doubled the flat tax paid by wealthy individuals on their income earned overseas.
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Byprarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 30 Oct. 2024
Changes corporate tax rate to a flat tax and ends the film production tax credit.
—Chelsea Brasted, Axios, 9 Oct. 2024
Policies: On his campaign website, Bradley says his top priorities are defending law enforcement, expanding school choice and charter schools, tax relief and phasing in a flat tax, reducing a backlog of professional licenses, and keeping voter ID intact.
—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Journal Sentinel, 1 Oct. 2024
To set themselves apart, these countries experimented with avant-garde neoliberal reforms not widely adopted elsewhere, such as pension privatization, the flat tax, and severe cuts in corporate tax rates.
—Hilary Appel, Foreign Affairs, 1 June 2015
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Byprarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 30 Oct. 2024
Changes corporate tax rate to a flat tax and ends the film production tax credit.
—Chelsea Brasted, Axios, 9 Oct. 2024
Policies: On his campaign website, Bradley says his top priorities are defending law enforcement, expanding school choice and charter schools, tax relief and phasing in a flat tax, reducing a backlog of professional licenses, and keeping voter ID intact.
—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Journal Sentinel, 1 Oct. 2024
To set themselves apart, these countries experimented with avant-garde neoliberal reforms not widely adopted elsewhere, such as pension privatization, the flat tax, and severe cuts in corporate tax rates.
—Hilary Appel, Foreign Affairs, 1 June 2015
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flat tax
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No 4: Game-changing money from the Gulf The biggest story in the UK this week has been about farmers protesting against a change to inheritance tax.Matt Slater, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024
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The flashpoint is the government’s decision in its budget last month to scrap a tax break dating from the 1990s that exempts agricultural property from inheritance tax.Jill Lawless, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Nov. 2024
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Awareness of these potential obstacles is crucial for effective estate tax planning.Christine Fletcher, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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Both plans would repeal the estate tax, the alternative minimum tax, and the tax on investment income imposed by Obamacare.Alex Raskolnikov, Foreign Affairs, 24 May 2017
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For those with taxable annual incomes above $1.0 million a year, a Harris-Walz administration would at death tax unrealized capital gains at 28% (lower than the Biden proposal of 39.6%) for amounts above $5.0 million maximum, $10.0 million for joint filers.Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
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So get rid of the death tax for everybody.Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2023
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To be sure, many drivers do not claim the mileage deduction on their federal income tax returns.Susan Tompor, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2024
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Texas has several benefits attracting people that California doesn't offer: the state has no income tax, it's cut off from the Western Interconnection electric system and has been building more new homes, whereas the Golden State is still going through a homelessness crisis and a housing shortage.Gord Magill, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
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Despite a last-minute plea from St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter and a wide-ranging assembly of city partners, the St. Paul City Council voted 4-2 on Wednesday to reject the mayor’s final budget proposal, which called for a 6.9% property tax levy increase.Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 11 Dec. 2024
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The City of Brookfield has never held a property tax levy referendum, according to Scott.Bridget Fogarty, Journal Sentinel, 5 Dec. 2024
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Prior to council tax, there was poll tax which was so wildly unpopular, people began rioting across England.Tanyel Mustafa, refinery29.com, 12 Jan. 2024
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But a Venezuelan passport costs more than $300, a price that amounts to a poll tax because few migrants can afford them.John Otis, NPR, 16 Apr. 2024
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The payments sent back $250 to single tax filers and $375 to head-of-household filers.Chris McKenna, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
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Academics argue that while the government needs to find ways to raise money, that could come from taxing excess profits rather than a single tax that applies to all employers, big and small.Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 26 Nov. 2024
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“Flat tax.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flat%20tax. Accessed 27 Dec. 2024.
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