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Chile: Bachelet Fails First Test of New Term by Raising Taxes
Ashley WrightMichelle Bachelet, president of Chile, is reforming the country’s education system and paying for it by raising corporate taxes. Bachelet aims to increase the corporate income tax from 20 percent to 25 percent, which would collect approximately $8.2 billion, or roughly 3 percent of gross domestic product. Bachelet also plans to eliminate the “taxable profits…

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