flat tax

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Recent Examples of flat tax Internationally, several Eastern European countries adopted flat tax systems in the late 1990s. Janae Bowens, Baltimore Sun, 26 Nov. 2024 Italy doubled its flat tax on wealthy foreigners to 200,000 euros ($217,000), responding to concerns about market disruption in luxury real estate hubs like Milan. David Faris, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024 In 2020, a constitutional amendment to change the flat tax to one with higher rates on higher earners was rejected by voters. Greg Bishop | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 2 Nov. 2024 Italy this summer doubled its flat tax on the overseas incomes of wealthy foreigners who transfer their tax residency to Italy, to 200,000 euros ($217,000). Robert Frank, CNBC, 1 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for flat tax 
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Noun
  • Lawyers whose field of specialty is inheritance tax.
    Han Ong, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Finally, there is state inheritance tax, which is the responsibility of the person receiving property from an estate.
    Robert Cole, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
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  • And in the United States, the estate tax has been gutted by tax cuts and strategies to dodge it.
    Tami Luhby, CNN, 19 Jan. 2025
  • That includes estate tax cuts and individual income tax cuts.
    NerdWallet, The Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Legislative Changes to Local Death Tax Proposed changes to inheritance tax rules, including potential alterations to relieve the death tax burden on local business and agricultural assets, may significantly impact estate planning strategies.
    Matthew F. Erskine, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • In 2023, the BBC’s offices in India were raided by income tax authorities, coming soon after a controversial BBC documentary titled India: The Modi Question, which was critical of the country’s President.
    Sara Merican, Deadline, 20 Jan. 2025
  • In the long run, at best the taxpayer could get a deferral of taxes and then an eventual arbitrage between ordinary income tax rates and long-term capital gains rates.
    Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
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  • The House budget proposal also prioritizes further property tax relief.
    Patrick Gleason, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Some states are focusing on property tax relief in response to concerns about rising housing costs.
    David A. Lieb, Chicago Tribune, 17 Jan. 2025
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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
  • 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
  • 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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