This arrangement commences at more than double the current average Massachusetts rate of 8 cents per kWh.
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The government wants to cap overall employer contributions to the civil service scheme at a maximum of 20%, just slightly more than the current average contribution rate of 19.4%.
Taxing capital income at a permanent average rate of 20% instead of the current average of 37% would yield substantial benefits.
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The Fed has unemployment rising to a 4.75%-5% fourth-quarter average rate from the current 4.6%.
The current valuation demands an annual average growth rate which is much higher than 24%, for the next 7-8 years.
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His plan calls for cutting the tax rate from 35% to 25%, but this would merely bring our corporate income tax rate down to the current average for the other OECD nations.
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Despite improvements in life expectancy and literacy, the current economic growth rate will not drag the average Ghanaian out of poverty for another 30 years.
At the current 3 percent CPI inflation rate, the average level of money prices would increase by 34 percent in a decade, and by 81 percent in 20 years.
She calculates that the current share price embeds a 10-year average growth rate of negative 6.9%.
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This is on top of the current corporate tax rate of nearly 40% nationwide on average, counting state corporate tax rates.
So while the average American may find it more difficult to buy a home, despite the current rate environment, deep pocketed buyers like Blackstone Group and other institutional investors have gobbled up home by the dozens, fixed them up and rented them out.
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The cost of a deemed dividend is also greater today because the difference between the current U.S. tax rate (the highest of any industrialized country) and the average tax rate on earnings of foreign subsidiaries is substantially greater than in 1976.
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For example, the current reported inflation rate is only 1.6% (compared to a long-term average of about 3%), but this rate is depressed due to the 40% weight in the Consumer Price Index from housing.
ECB's policy is that, in current circumstances, it may not be sensible to focus, as the central bank does, on the average inflation rate in the euro area, if this risks creating deflation in Germany.
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