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13:41 Aug 10, 2009
English to Bosnian translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Law: Taxation & Customs
Additional field(s): Finance (general), Government / Politics
English term or phrase: regressive tax
Definition from ThisNation.com:
Tax collected at increasingly lower rates or percentages as income level increases.

Example sentence(s):
  • In order to prevent regressive tax on items purchased, many states make certain types of things non-taxable, especially food. wiseGEEK
  • A regressive tax system does not mean and likely would not result in low income earners paying more taxes than the wealthy, only that the effective tax rate relative to income or consumption would be a larger tax burden to low income earners. Wikipedia
  • This update explains that ballot initiatives to enact regressive tax policies died in Michigan and Montana, but survived to secure spots on the ballot in Arizona, Florida, Massachusetts and Oregon. The Tax Justice Digest
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5regresivna porezna stopa
Haris Kadric
4regresivni porez
avlajkovic


  

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regresivna porezna stopa


Definition from own experience or research:
A regressive tax is generally a tax that is applied uniformly. This means that it hits lower-income individuals harder.

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Haris Kadric
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Local time: 06:30
Native speaker of: Native in BosnianBosnian, Native in Serbo-CroatSerbo-Croat
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regresivni porez


Definition from own experience or research:
porez cija se stopa smanjuje sa povecanjem prihoda

Rečnik bankarstva i finansija, Biljana Simurdic

Example sentence(s):
  • suvremeni porezni sustavi se pretežno temelje na načelima koristi i platežne sposobnosti • porezi se mogu podijeliti na: 1. progresivne 2. regresivne 3. proporcionalne • progresivnim porezima se od onih koji imaju visoke dohotke uzima relativno veći dio dohotka od onih s niskim dohodcima • regresivni porezi od ljudi s visokim dohodcima uzimaju relativno manje nego od ljudi s niskim dohotkom • kod proporcionalnih poreza relativni dio dohotka koji se oporezuje je jednak i kod bogatih i kod siromašnih - Zadarsko sveučilište  
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Native speaker of: Native in BosnianBosnian
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