After the Bell: Representation can lead to bad taxation
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“One of the real strengths of our politics is that it has found a way to legitimise a very high tax rate for people who earn above about R1.9-million a year.”
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“People who earn above about R1.9-million a year end up paying about 45% of their income to the government.”
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Wikipedia entries retrieved (DeepSeek, Haplogroup R1, R1–9 fleet) are unrelated to tax rates or R1.9 million income thresholds.
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— Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co., Ltd., doing business as DeepSeek, is a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company that develops large language models (LLMs).…
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— Haplogroup R1, or R-M173, is a Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup. A primary subclade of Haplogroup R (R-M207), it is defined by the SNP M173. The other primary subclade of Haplogroup R is Haplogroup R2 (R-M…
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— The R1–9s (colloquially known as Arnines) were the 1,703 similar New York City Subway cars built between 1930 and 1940 for the Independent Subway System. All were built by the American Car and Foundry…
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“The EFF won an important court case that said the finance minister can no longer just change the VAT rate on his own.”
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— Cape Town is the legislative capital of South Africa. It is the country's oldest city and the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. Cape Town is the country's second-largest city by population, afte…
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— The Democratic Alliance (DA) is a liberal South African political party. The party has been the second-largest in South Africa since its foundation in 2000. The DA's ideology has been associated with…
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— Ukraine has been a member of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank since 3 September, 1992. The country is one of the IMF's four largest borrowers.
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“The finance minister cannot just change VAT, so they cannot just change the fuel levy either.”
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“The finance minister also doesn't have the power to change excise taxes on alcohol and tobacco.”
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“In Sweden, a group of people who wanted the right to download movies and content with no copyright restrictions formed The Pirate Party.”
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Wikipedia confirms the Pirate Party (Sweden) was founded in 2006 with principles including copyright reform and digital rights, aligning with the claim about unrestricted content access.
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— Pirate Party is a label adopted by various political parties worldwide that share a set of values and policies focused on civil rights in the digital age. The fundamental principles of Pirate Parties …
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— Pirate Party of Slovenia (Slovene: Piratska stranka Slovenije) is a political party in Slovenia. The party was officially registered on 17 October 2012 in Ljubljana.
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— The Pirate Party (Swedish: Piratpartiet) is a political party in Sweden founded in 2006. Its sudden popularity has given rise to parties with the same name and similar goals across Europe and worldwid…
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“Adriano Mazzotti paid the EFF's first election deposit as a cigarette smuggler.”
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