Local bond markets provide alternative sources of financing for companies and Governments, which avoid exchange rate risks inherent to foreign financing.

A flat rate of around 2 throughout the Union would cover all financing requirements. The receipts for all purchases subject to VAT would show the amount paid to the EU, making citizens aware of their contribution, which would be transferred automatically to Union accounts and would no longer be shown on national budgets.

Flat List

2. Decides that, from 2001, the flat annual fee percentage for the Holy See should be set at 25 per cent of the approved notional rate of assessment.

It literally flat lined.

Over these 10 years, 40 million dollars in affordable financing, average interest rate five percent to six percent.

Finally, if a country s public institutions are in the thrall of oligarchs who are accustomed to stealing with impunity from the public till, a flat tax may be the only way to induce the wealthy to pay any tax at all. Thus, in 2001 Russia became the first large state to adopt a flat tax, reducing the top marginal rate from 30 to 13 . In 2003, Ukraine dropped its top rate from 40 to 13 .

Completely flat is not recommended.

It's not really, really flat.

Who Needs a Flat Tax?

Shit! I've got a flat.

The beer has gone flat.

It is worth mentioning that under circumstances where the rate of growth of the enterprise wage guidelines this year was mainly flat or down, the minimum threshold in Beijing and Guizhou was raised.

It is a flat rate basic income support program for persons participating in pre employment programming or making a transition to self sufficiency by continuing some supports until individuals are established in employment.

This is the flat floor configuration.

It's very flat, kind of rigid.

The Fragility of a Flat World

My bicycle has a flat tire.

Her girlfriend is completely flat chested.

A Flat World and a Round Ball

Taking them off the dead, flat pages.

It is rough and it is flat.

It's usually played flat on your lap.

And it's very flat. It's very swampy.

They believed that the earth was flat.

Previously people believed the earth was flat.

It's actually in the key of B flat.

The flat sharp edges are like knife blades.

A tool to acquire images using flat scanner

Here it is in a flat floor configuration.

Well, I know the world is flat now.

It needs to be flat, so it's transportable.

They're eminently qualified to make flat screen TVs.

They've been making flat screen monitors for years.

The child believes that the earth is flat.

It was believed that the earth was flat.

Finally, if a country s public institutions are in the thrall of oligarchs who are accustomed to stealing with impunity from the public till, a flat tax may be the only way to induce the wealthy to pay any tax at all. Thus, in 2001 Russia became the first large state to adopt a flat tax, reducing the top marginal rate from 30 to 13 .

A tool to acquire images using a flat scanner

We don't want to get caught flat footed again.

Life has been so flat since I came here.

And these were robots engineered for a flat world, right?

Let's just go for it. Foot flat to the floor.

It used to be thought that the earth was flat.

The form of the commission varies and may include (a) a percentage of the successful auction price (b) a flat percentage agreed in advance and (c) a flat fee.

WASHINGTON, DC With America s Republican presidential candidates lining up to declare their fealty to a flat tax a system of personal income taxation that assesses a single rate for all opponents have focused on why it is a bad idea to raise taxes on the poor in order to reduce them for the wealthy. But, if a flat tax is such a bad idea, why have so many countries embraced it?