The recent drop in long-term interest rates favors the consumer, who was already in good shape because of higher than normal tax refunds and lower mortgage payments,
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The state now pays 20 percent of normal taxes on properties it owns, which translates into a net loss to Hartford of around $ 26 million a year.
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The act simplified the tax structure created by the 1916 act normal tax and additional tax it created a single tax structure with a Normal Tax and a Surtax.
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The act simplified the tax structure created by the 1916 act normal tax and additional tax it created a single tax structure with a Normal Tax and a Surtax.
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But Kraushaar added that the investment bank's profit had been exaggerated last quarter by two unusual factors : a lower-than-normal tax rate and lower-than-normal expenses for paying its well-heeled employees.
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Applying a normal tax rate to that figure would imply pretax income of about $ 1.3 billion, indicating that the Fastow partnerships provided about 40 percent of the company's profits.
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Richard Tate, head of the Zimbabwe Tobacco Association, said some farmers switched to other crops to protest a 5 percent government tax on their tobacco sales payable in addition to normal taxes.
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"It's similar to the normal tax code, where two individuals, regardless of their sexual orientation, would buy a home together, and each one would be able to get a tax deduction ."
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Applying a normal tax rate to that figure would imply pretax income of about $ 1 . 3 billion, indicating that the Fastow partnerships provided about 40 percent of the company's profits.
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However, ConocoPhillips has agreed to work under the normal tax regime and has invested more than US $ 200 million in the project, which will require total investment of US $ 2 billion.
