Some higher ranking hospitals use a means-tested flat rate charging system, with chargeable extras such as private rooms and air conditioning bring in the lion's share of extra income.
If they use them up, there's a simple flat rate charge per transaction thereafter.
Apple persuaded five major publishers — Penguin, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan and Hachette Book Group — to sign onto its new iBookstore using a different pricing model than the $9.99 flat rate charged by Amazon.
You can charge by the hour or have a flat rate charge for this.
That will replace the current flat charge incorporated into council tax.Economically, the idea is sound: flat-rate charges encourage waste.
If metered charges increase by 5percentt in any given year, the flat-rate charges will increase by 5percentt.
Flat-rate charges, such as those proposed, would need to be means-tested, a fact that Warner was forced to concede in a radio interview.
He urges Hunt to introduced a progressive charge, instead of a flat-rate charge.
This guy will prepare a flat-rate charge for your move.
Margaret Thatcher's refusal to budge over her hated flat-rate charge for council-run services led to her downfall in 1990.
But one of the criticisms of the licence fee is that it is a flat-rate charge, which every household up to 75 has to pay.
