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High Inflation Rates

Posted by Vikas Sah on Tuesday, March 6, 2007

1,594% was the estimated annual inflation rate in trouble-racked Zimbabwe in January – the highest in the world.

4,000% is the inflation rate predicted by the International Monetary Fund for Zimbabwe by year’s end of the prices continue to soar and the government doesn’t devalue the currency.

(Source: Time Magazine)

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Unpaid taxes and their collection

Posted by Vikas Sah on Friday, September 29, 2006

24% is the commission the IRS will pay private collection agencies for recovering unpaid taxes.

$345 billion is the estimated unpaid federal taxes in 2001, the last year for which the data was available.

(SOURCE: Time Magazine)

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