Chidambaram Thursday announced a 3.0-percentage-point increase in the factory tax of SUVs to 30%.
Chidambaram Thursday announced a 3.0-percentage-point increase in excise tax on locally produced SUVs to 30%.
The 7.8-percentage-point increase drove optimism to an unusually high level, but not an extraordinarily high level.
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Social Security's actuaries assert that a two-percentage-point increase in payroll taxes would render the system solvent for another 75 years.
For every one-percentage-point increase in inflation, the Fed can be expected to raise short-term interest rates by 0.86 of a percentage point, he says.
The effect is quite substantial: a one-percentage-point increase in the number of foreign-born college graduates increased patents per capita by 9 to 18 percent.
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Following its ten percentage-point increase in the third quarter, the Swiss firm increased its exposure to American equities once again in the fourth quarter.
Many Fed insiders expect the end to their mortgage buying to have a mild effect on rates, a half-percentage-point increase or possibly much less.
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But his alternative anti-inflationary strategy a one percentage-point increase in interest rates over the next 12 months would surely further strengthen sterling, which is already hurting exporters.
From March through May, troops in vehicles found 64 percent of improvised explosive devices before they blew up, an 11 percentage-point increase over the previous quarter.
The offer of the bus fare, an amount which most of the men could have saved up to pay for themselves, led to a 22-percentage-point increase in the probability of migration.
In a television interview, Ms. Katayama, a former Finance Ministry official, said the projected sum is equivalent to a two-percentage-point increase in the national sales tax an unpopular tax the government is now struggling to raise.
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Indian industries and the government have been clamoring for the RBI to unwind most of the 3.75-percentage-point rate increase it carried out between March 2010 and October 2011 to combat stubborn inflation.
The authors examine the likely impact of the 10-percentage point increase in the top income tax rate, which was imposed as an election-year stunt by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and then kept in place by his feckless successor, David Cameron.
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On the downside, 36 percent say their expenses have increased significantly over the past 12 months, a 2-percentage point increase from last month and a return to the level recorded in January.
Our rule of thumb is that every one percentage increase or decrease in nominal GDP translates into one-to-one-and-a-half percentage point increase or decrease in tech spending by the private sector.
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The 2 percentage point tax increase has reduced tax-home pay for nearly all Americans.
Investors placed 60.2% of their portfolio dollars in equities, a six-month high and a five percentage point increase from September.
From 2010 to 2011 there was a 4.7 percentage point increase in retail card originations to sub-prime borrowers, making up 31% of 2011 retail credit card originations, Equifax says.
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According to a recent report, fifty-three percent of consumers plan to travel more in 2012 than 2011 an 18 percentage point increase from 2011 despite a lack of confidence in the economy.
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