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Recent Examples of flat tax 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 Later, a 10% flat tax rate on pensions was introduced. Kathleen Peddicord, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for flat tax 
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Noun
  • Lobby group Family Business UK said tens of thousands of family-run businesses and farms will be ruined by this change due to lower levels of inheritance tax relief.
    Marc Shoffman, theweek, 6 Nov. 2024
  • In contrast, the UAE provides a zero-income tax regime, no capital gains tax and no wealth or inheritance tax, creating a fertile ground for wealth accumulation and protection.
    Ravi Kotwani, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Estate Tax Revisions: Perhaps most important to estate planning attorneys is the discussion on the estate tax exemption (and corresponding gift tax exemption and generation-skipping transfer tax exemption).
    Darren T. Case, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Higher estate tax exemptions approved under the Trump administration’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 are set to expire next year.
    Sean Conlon, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • So get rid of the death tax for everybody.
    Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2023
Noun
  • Trump has suggested cutting the corporate tax rate and has floated some income tax cuts too.
    Li Zhou, Vox, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Without changes from Congress, the income tax brackets will revert to 10%, 15%, 25%, 28%, 33%, 35% and 39.6% after 2025.
    Kate Dore, CFP®, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • This would push more property tax bills in the area above $10,000 per year, with owners often passing the cost onto their tenants.
    Marc Joffe, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
  • This increase is mainly due to higher property tax expenses.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • By unifying the nation under a single tax regime, GST streamlined the complex web of indirect taxes and brought about greater transparency and efficiency in the system.
    Pankaj Vasani, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
  • In 2018, then-Senator Harris proposed a refundable tax credit for lower- and middle-income families, which would have provided cash payments of two hundred and fifty dollars a month for single tax filers and five hundred dollars a month for married couples.
    John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024

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