But families of modest means would get the biggest proportional tax cut.

Alternatively, a proportional tax takes all earnings at the same rate.

In 1876, Gambetta proposed to create a proportional tax on all incomes.

A flat tax falls under proportional tax as they allow certain deductions.

The first tax considered is a proportional tax on lifetime income at rate t, with the proceeds being used to finance current government spending.

In between is a flat or proportional tax, where the tax rate is fixed as the amount subject to taxation increases.

"These are proportional taxes," Professor Bradford said.

A proportional tax is levied by the cantons (at varying rates) on the Eigenkapital (ownership equity) of companies.

He discussed proportional tax on produce instead of fixed taxes on property as being superior as an incentive to bring more land into cultivation.

Unlike proportional taxes, a fixed tax does not necessitate public insight, i.e. governments would not need to know individual income, wealth, or consumption.

A proportional tax is a tax imposed so that the tax rate is fixed, with no change as the taxable base amount increases or decreases.

Proportional taxes maintain equal tax incidence regardless of the ability-to-pay and do not shift the incidence disproportionately to those with a higher or lower economic well-being.

Carson spoke favorably of the flat tax system, which he prefers to call the "Proportional Tax" based on the biblical principle of the tithe.

Other types of fiscal multipliers can also be calculated, like multipliers that describe the effects of changing taxes (such as lump-sum taxes or proportional taxes).

A proportional tax upon this particular article of expense might, perhaps, produce a more considerable revenue than any which has hitherto been drawn from it in any part of Europe.

Television licences that are implemented in many countries, especially in Europe, are proportional taxes when they consist of a flat annual payment for the use of a television.

Quesnay and Mirabeau had advocated a proportional tax (impôt de quotité), but Turgot proposed a distributive tax (impôt de repartition).

Tithes were simply proportional taxes levied on the output of the land and herds and used to support the Levites or to be set aside for the poor - widows, orphans, etc.

Progressive taxes have higher substitution effects, and are therefore likely to cause a greater increase in leisure consumption (i.e. less work) than if the same sum of money were raised via a proportional tax.

It is a proportional tax on output collected by the companies and ultimately completely supported by the final buyer, i.e. the consumer, since it is included in the price of goods or services.

If the income tax is levied on Β, this term is unaltered, and the proportional tax has no effect on inequality (this is the analogue of the case discussed in Section 9-1).

Proportional taxes on consumption are considered by some to be regressive; that is, low income people tend to spend a greater percentage of their income in taxable sales (using a cross section timeframe) than higher income people.

If the rich pay more in proportion to their income, this is known as a proportional tax; if they pay an increasing proportion, this is termed a progressive tax, sometimes associated with redistribution of wealth.

In the Fertile crescent, the Ottomans inherited muqasama (sharing), a proportional tax on agricultural output, from the Mamluks; it was distinctly different from the uniform tax rates in other newly conquered territories.

The dual income tax system levies a proportional tax rate on all net income (capital, wage and pension income less deductions) combined with progressive tax rates on gross labour and pension income.