Western economists typically favor gradual tax increases Jeffrey Frankel, for example, recommends a pre announced plan to increase the tax rate by, say, one percentage point annually for five years.

The top personal income tax rate (also levied on capital gains), the sales tax rate, the corporate tax rate, and the gas tax are all at or near the highest of any state.

If one firm evades excise taxes, and the tax rate is high compared to pre tax profit margins in the industry, its competitors also have to cheat, just in order to survive.

Although the top rate of income tax in Britain was recently raised to 50 , there is no thought of going back to pre Thatcher taxes.

A recent study found that taxing capital gains and dividends as ordinary income, subject to a maximum 28 rate on long term capital gains (the pre 1997 rate), could finance a cut in the corporate tax rate from 35 to 26 .

Table 7. Estimated pre tax cost of CR (coldrolled) coils ( tonne)

One of the most efficient tax raising methods is the US payroll tax, for which the marginal tax rate is close to the average rate (because deductions are absent and there is little graduation in the rate structure).

Reagan s tax policies reduced the top income tax rate from 70 in 1980 to 28 in 1986.

There are many arguments for raising Japan s consumption tax rate.

I should say that to deal with this, we've got to deal with the post tax things and the pre tax things.

In the pre war BiH, this rate amounted to 10,7 promils.

The income tax rate was decreased to 21 by January 2008.

But there are not enough tax breaks for the rich to cover another 20 reduction in their income tax rate.

In January 2005, the personal income tax rate was reduced to 24 .

The highest enrolment rate is in pre primary education and vocational education has the highest drop out rate (Figure 30).

According to the official exchange rate, the exemption tax exceeds US 3 million.

But, given that the top US marginal income tax rate is 35 , he certainly is a tax avoider on a grand scale.

A lower corporate tax rate would weaken this justification. Moreover, pension funds, retirement plans, and non profit organizations, which receive about 50 of all corporate dividends, do not pay tax on these earnings, and would benefit from a lower corporate tax rate.

Sarkozy s proposed cure is to boost growth by reducing the tax burden on employers, while simultaneously hiking the rate of value added tax.

A global externality can best be dealt with by a globally agreed tax rate.

Right now, Warren Buffett pays a lower tax rate than his secretary. Do we want to keep these tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans?

The corporate tax rate is a flat 18 , one of the lowest in the world.

As defined in the proposed legislation, the tax rate is 23 for the first year.

Japan s government has a huge debt burden, and its consumption tax rate is far lower than the value added tax rates that prevail in Europe.

Moreover, a high corporate tax rate is an ineffective and costly tool for producing revenues, owing to innovative financial transactions and legal tax avoidance mechanisms.

And, while raising so much revenue with so low a tax rate sounds grand, the declining volume of trades would shrink the tax base precipitously.

Instead of cutting proven tax incentives for business investment, the US should offset at least some of the revenue losses from a lower corporate tax rate by raising tax rates on corporate shareholders.

The rate of property law implementation, a vital pre condition for return, has continued to climb.

BERKELEY The United States now has the highest statutory corporate income tax rate among developed countries.

Indeed, cutting these items to pay for a reduction in the corporate tax rate could end up increasing the tax on corporate economic activity in the US.

Georgia s 12 flat rate income tax probably the lowest in the world has boosted the national budget.

The tax rate that achieves optimum, or highest government revenues is somewhere in between these two values.

The first conclusion of the report was that global environmental taxes and the Tobin tax on currency transactions could yield substantial revenues at a very low tax rate.

12. The principal forms of taxation are income tax, land tax and withholding tax, which is payable by non residents on incomes accruing in or deriving from the Territory, at a current rate of 25 per cent.

From these they calculate excess deaths above a death rate interpolated between pre and post Leap death rates.

In the pre war period in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the death rate of babies was 10.7 per thousand.

To see why, consider the tax rate necessary to pay for social benefits, which equals the replacement rate (the average level of benefits relative to taxpayer incomes) multiplied by the dependency ratio (the share of the population receiving the benefits). The higher the replacement rate and or dependency ratio, the higher the tax rate needed to pay for the benefits.

That said, if the goal of corporate tax reform is to boost investment and job creation, broadening the tax base to pay for a lower rate could be counterproductive.

Brown s ballot initiative this November would raise California s top personal income tax rate to 13.3 , the nation s highest.

When Kan led the DPJ in opposition, he avoided discussing any raise in the rate of consumption tax.

Their version of tax reform would mean reducing deductions for the wealthy and corporations, with no rate reductions.

Therefore, cutting the payroll tax rate in 2011 2012 and making the rate schedule more graduated (on the Medicare side) were mistakes from the standpoint of efficient taxation.

Both President Barack Obama s plan for business tax reform and the Simpson Bowles deficit reduction plan propose reducing such expenditures to pay for a reduction in the corporate tax rate.

Although the top rate has climbed back to near 40 , no one proposes a return to pre Reagan levels.

What matters for the amount of labor supplied is the after tax wage rate relative to income from wealth.