Sentence examples for rate allowance from inspiring English sources

He called for a flat daily rate allowance for MPs.

Married couples' allowance to rise in line with basic rate allowance.

Osborne, who is expected to announce a further increase in the personal allowance (the amount of earning on which no income tax is levied) to at least £10,500, said there had been a "misconception" in this debate and that lifting the basic rate allowance helped all taxpayers, apart from the very rich.

In a budget which involves a modest fiscal tightening this year Osborne also managed to announce proper tax cuts; a rise in the basic rate tax allowance, worth almost £2bn by 2020, an increase in the higher rate allowance worth £600m by 2020, and a cut in capital gains tax, worth £735m by 2020, that will mainly benefit shareholders.

Despite this relatively constant application rate, allowance rates increased steadily from 1982 1986 among both single term and multi-term governors.

Because dividend payments come with a basic rate tax credit, provided the recipient did not earn more than the basic rate allowance, no further tax would be paid.

The special select committee on Members' Expenses under Conservative Adam Afriyie has laboured and brought forward proposals for a system of flat rate allowances to replace the more elaborate system operated by the hated (by MPs, anyway) expenses watchdog IPSA.

Recipients of the flat-rate allowance get €4.01 a day.

Another option is to include a flat-rate allowance for housing, possibly on a regional basis to reduce the worst anomalies.

If you pay a flat-rate allowance for housing, people in expensive areas will not have enough to pay the rent, while those in cheaper places will have a surplus.

Instead he suggested a flat-rate allowance calculated on the distance an MP's constituency is from Westminster, arguing that it would be a better system even if politicians received less money.