Recently, Rogers has reported to making reductions to his stakes in several companies, with an average reduction rate of about 50 percent.
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However, biodiversity and ecosystem services are declining at an unprecedented rate and the world failed to reach the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of a significant reduction in the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010.
He may also signal a further reduction in the rate of corporation tax to 20p.
They're not asking for a holiday on interest payments or even an interest-rate reduction like Greece.
The current interest rate reduction passed with bipartisan support in 2007, but Republicans have pointed out that then-Sen.
Any further reduction in the rate of tonsillectomy is likely to be associated with a further worsening of this trend.
In March, the central bank cut its lending rate by a quarter percentage point, which was its second rate reduction in 2013.
These things are well worth the price for the short- and long-term power of tax-rate reduction, sound currency and unclogged credit arteries.
Like the House-passed stimulus bill, the Senate Republican proposal would also accelerate marginal rate reduction of the 28 percent bracket to 25 percent.
The difficulty of achieving a reduction in the rate of wage increases ought, in short, to be considerably less than that of achieving absolute cuts.
The Scottish government says that comes from an inflationary increase, a reduction in the rate of successful appeals on rates valuation, and on economic buoyancy.
But even if the latest interest-rate reduction halts the deterioration in the economic outlook, it looks unlikely that it will generate enough momentum to speed the recovery.
Its management of the Amazon rainforest is crucial to the health of the planet, which is why the recent large reduction in the rate of deforestation has been so encouraging.
But more importantly, it is a magic that works beautifully, by accident, in a way Keynes did not forsee, when it operates through policies of tax-rate reduction.
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Mr. Barthold ran an experiment in which he eliminated some major tax expenditures and measured how much of a rate reduction that would permit while remaining revenue neutral.
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Good money was as important as across-the-board tax rate reduction.
So it looks like the next reboot will not be nearly as much fun as the Tax Reform Act of 1986 when it comes to the rate reduction part.
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The economic slowdown in the UK as well as a reduction in the rate of corporation tax have led to a 17% drop in corporation tax payments since 2005.
For the ultra-rich, the exemption amount is relatively trivial, but a reduction in the rate from the scheduled 55% to the proposed 35% level is a big win for the wealthy.
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The letter cites a recent study finding that in 2007 more than 27 million tax returns had dividends qualifying for the tax-rate reduction, and of those, 30% were from taxpayers age 65 and older.
If this letter from Thomas Barthold, Chief of Staff of The Joint Committee on Taxation is any indication it is not going to be nearly as much fun, when it comes to rate reduction this time.
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In the light of that outlook, the Committee judged at its October meeting that an immediate reduction in Bank Rate of 0.5 percentage points to 4.5% was necessary to meet the 2% target for CPI inflation in the medium term.
Quantitative easing (QE) was the catch phrase of the day on Tuesday as the markets digest both the Bank of Japan's new and possibly radical asset purchase program and rate reduction pair, and the prospect of further QE by the Fed.
It provides support for arguments by U.S. companies that they face a competitive disadvantage in the U.S. marketplace, since most non-U.S. multinationals except Japan already have lower taxes before the added bonus of an effective tax rate reduction when they establish an American subsidiary.
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The so-called Krebs trial showed that there is a 16% reduction in the rate of increase for a 150 sq km area (60 sq miles) if more than 70% of badgers are killed in a series of culls held once a year for four years.
Following two days of sell-offs in stock markets across the globe--and a week ahead of its Federal Open Market Committee meeting (when the rate cut was expected)-- the Fed slashed short-term interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point, its single most dramatic rate reduction since 1984.
The upshot of all this activity is a marked reduction in the rate of new infections, though sceptics point out that the fall began before ARV use and circumcision became widespread, and that the role of behavioural changes (including a greater willingness to use condoms) should thus not be underestimated.
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But if this trend in private bank money creation continues, it does augur for higher rates of monetary inflation, especially, as Chairman Bernanke suggested at Jackson Hole in August, if aided and embedded by a reduction in the rate of interest the Federal Reserve pays banks on those excess reserves.
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Moreover, as the chart shows, the rate of change has speeded up over the course of that period. (The sudden fall-off at the end is caused because the linkage-disequilibrium method cannot easily detect very recent mutations, rather than by a sudden reduction in the rate of evolution.) The researchers put this acceleration down to two things.
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