But the sales tax, which can be levied by layers of governments, is a regressive tax.
Our greatest fear is that if the business fails this regressive stage will become permanent.
It is called a regressive tax because you pay the same however much you earn.
Sandler RH, et al. Short-term benefit from oral vancomycin treatment of regressive onset autism.
Some criticise the charge on the grounds that it is a flat tax, and therefore regressive.
Poorer Americans are hit disproportionately by payroll taxes, which are regressive and have grown in importance.
It looks progressive relative to other rich countries only because consumption taxes elsewhere are regressive.
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Inflation as a product of intentionally devaluing the dollar is a regressive tax on all of us.
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He says he is "amazed" Congress is leaping for what he considers a massive, regressive tax measure.
Baroness Deech described the current system as "regressive", and said it favoured women who married rich men.
CDU's tax ideas do not square with its health-care plans, which would make social-security contributions more regressive.
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And its complexity is regressive, since only the rich can afford the best tax attorneys to reduce their effective rates.
Second, a carbon tax is regressive, because it places a larger percentage burden on low-income households.
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News reports that the US tax system is regressive make me want to throw hamburgers at the screen.
The addition of FICA certainly makes total taxation of incomes more regressive than just the income tax is.
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Sooner or later, the policies motivating the EU Data Protection Directive will prove to be counter-productive and regressive.
Advocates of a strong court say that this is a regressive legal step and could paralyse the court.
Yet we oppose consumption or spending taxes because we perceive them as regressive.
Pairing a carbon tax with an offsetting cut in corporate taxes would make things more regressive (dark blue bars).
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In a word, these special- interest interventions ultimately lead to socially regressive results.
Moving to a single rate of VAT without exemptions would eliminate this distortion but it would also be regressive.
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If you measure dollars spent per dollars of income, the tax is regressive.
With regard to the Bush tax cuts, Obama had promised to overturn a policy that he saw as regressive.
Prof Acton blames the Home Office for its "negative rhetoric" and "regressive" policies.
The tax take in Latin America is still low and tax systems are often regressive compared to those in Europe.
It is interesting that a type of accelerated brain growth is studied as almost exclusive to males with regressive autism.
Mr Crace's road novel is vivid on its technologically regressive condition, although sketchy on the details of what went wrong.
Not to Milton Friedman, who called the contribution scheme needlessly regressive as part of his attack on Social Security.
Include regressive payroll taxes and their ETR jumps to 12.1 percent, about 9 percentage points less than the highest income households.
The problem here is that the tax preferences for IRAs and 401(k) accounts, although egalitarian in form, are regressive in effect.
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