Sentence examples for the main rate from inspiring English sources

But no Labour government has ever hiked up the main rate of VAT.

Geoffrey Howe, Margaret Thatcher's first chancellor, raised the main rate to 15% in his first budget after the 1979 election.

The main rate of VAT, a consumption tax, went up from 17.5% to 20% on January 4th.

* The main rate of corporation tax is to be cut by 1% to 21% in April 2014.

The main rate of company tax will be cut by an additional one percentage point, to 21%, in 2014.

He said: "The chancellor is absolutely right to reduce the main rate of corporation tax – 20% will put us out ahead of most of the OECD.

It is concluded that electron transfer is the main rate-controlling mechanism but that solute diffusion cannot be neglected.

Kinetics of this interaction obeys from the pseudo-second-order model and diffusion of the MB molecules into the agar is the main rate-controlling step.

Considering for instance AN, AA and A Me adsorbents, the liquid film diffusion was the main rate-limiting step for the diluted solution (0.2 g/L).

The composition and temperature profiles allow the main rate-limiting phenomena between heat transfer in the reactive mixture and grain kinetics to be determined.

Subsurface oxygen availability tends to be one of the main rate-limiting factors for removal of carbonaceous and nitrogenous compounds in subsurface flow (SSF) wetlands used for domestic wastewater treatment.