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.

Your property tax what you pay for your house.

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.

Property tax increases are capped at 2 per year (see Proposition 13).

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.

The tax system should be reformed by increasing reliance on income progressive taxes, restructuring the property tax and introducing reasonably progressive taxes.

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

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.

Other religious schools receive some non direct tax support (charitable donations credits, property tax exemption, if non profit) but are essentially funded through private sources.

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.

Foreign aid and expertise could be used to modernize the property registration and tax collection systems.

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.

The income tax (and thus the tax on employment) is high. But the country is relatively wealthy, especially in terms of property assets on household balance sheets.

In Italy, the debate centers on taxes in general, and the rather miniscule property tax in particular.

I don't want Delhi to collect property tax for me sitting in the southern part of India.

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.

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

First, most of the 47 pay a great deal of tax on their earnings, property, and goods purchased.

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.

When legislators and others think about economic development, what they first of all think about are business tax incentives, property tax abatements, job creation tax credits, you know, there are a million of these programs all over the place.

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.

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

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.

The total tax burden on families also includes sales taxes, which are steeply regressive, and property taxes, which are progressive.

The Constitution guarantees the right to inherit family property, which is immune from seizure and free of any public tax.

And we're a non profit foundation, you can give us the property and take a hell of a tax deduction.

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.