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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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Similar to estate tax in the U.S., inheritance tax in the U.K. is charged at 40% on the property, possessions and money of someone who has died, above a threshold of 325,000 pounds, or around $410,000.Hannah Peart, NBC News, 30 Nov. 2024
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Retirees also don't pay an inheritance tax or an estate tax, and most groceries and all prescription and nonprescription drugs are tax-free.Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 20 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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In the resulting chaos, states have scrambled to fill the gap with regard to state income tax.Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
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Catch up quick: Cox signed a law earlier this year slashing the state income tax rate from 4.65% to 4.55%. Democrats and education advocates criticized the cut, arguing those funds should be spent on public schools and social services.Kim Bojórquez, Axios, 5 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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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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This strategy, involves clustering donations in a single tax year to surpass the standard deduction and make itemizing worthwhile.James Brewer, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
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