basic allowance

基本解釋

This applies to the Basic Housing Allowance , Basic Allowance for Subsistence, and for any Overseas housing allowance.
這適用於基本住房補貼，基本生活津貼，以及海外房屋津貼。
Students who borrow money starting in July 2014 will be allowed to cap repayments at 10 percent of income above a basic living allowance, instead of 15 percent.
2014年七月起貸款的學(xué)生將被允許以基本生活費的10%的上限來還款，而不是15%。
Some say step pricing can be used to protect a basic water allowance for drinking, cooking and washing – either for very low prices or for free, as it is in South Africa.
有些人說無論原本水價是極其低廉還是免費，可以通過逐步漲價來爲(wèi)飲用，做飯和洗濯給予基本的用水補助保護，就像南非做的那樣。

On the positive side, it would seem that, thanks to the often substantial increase in the basic allowance and the reduction or removal of exemptions, fears that the flat tax reforms would greatly reduce personal-income tax progressivity—the notion according to which economic agents should pay higher effective tax rates the more they earn—have been overblown.
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Two-thirds of those on the company's programme are on job seekers' allowance—basic unemployment benefit.
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