Word: savisaar
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...were shopping around for special tax regimes. We wanted to say that we are a country that treats everyone rather well," recalls Kersti Kaljulaid, at the time an economic-policy adviser to the government and now Estonia's representative at the E.U. court of auditors. But Economics Minister Edgar Savisaar, an erstwhile hero of Estonia's independence movement and leader of one of the biggest political parties, wants to scrap the flat tax and use a more conventional progressive system that taxes the rich at higher rates than the less well-off. "Our system is too simple," he says...
...average monthly wage of $650. "We're just halfway," says Prime Minister Andrus Ansip, whose aim is for Estonia to become one of the five wealthiest E.U. nations on a per-capita basis in the next 15 years. He heads a different party from that of Economics Minister Savisaar and doesn't see why anybody should take issue with the current policies. "When the economy is growing so fast it's very difficult to complain," he says, describing life in the country as being "like a fairy tale." Even fairy tales can have bad scenes, of course. Savisaar is currently...
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