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(in Britain) a rate of income tax that is higher than the basic rate and becomes payable on taxable income in excess of a specified limit

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How to use higher rate in a sentence

This is a slightly higher rate than U.S. consumers buy new breasts (313,000 surgeries out of a population of 313 million).
Venezuela Now Has Toilet Paper but No Breast Implants|Jason Batansky|September 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
None of the SARs reports any projected savings attributable to a higher rate.
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For the first time in our history, according to the Census Bureau, blacks are now voting at a higher rate than whites.
How to Really Empower Black Voters Nationwide|Ron Christie|July 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Instead, Obama has done the direct opposite—deporting more immigrants at a higher rate than any of his predecessors.
Obama Could Legally Stop Immigrant Deportations|Sally Kohn|February 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST

“I wanted to pay girls a higher rate but my hands were tied,” she says.
The Adult Industry Doesn’t Pay! (As Much As You Think)|Aurora Snow|November 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST
What difference is between us and them but that we are dearer fools, coxcombs at a higher rate?
Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter|Ben Jonson
It causes the stepping-up of the human physical structure into an infinitely higher rate of vibration.
"And That's How It Was, Officer"|Ralph Sholto
Nor shall Congress have power to authorize any higher rate of taxation on persons held to labor or service than on land.
A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention|Lucius Eugene Chittenden
The girls at the machines formerly earned $7.50, and now earn with the machine set at the higher rate of speed from $8 to $11.
Making Both Ends Meet|Sue Ainslie Clark and Edith Wyatt
The American income tax has a higher rate on large incomes than that provided for under the English system.
Harper's Pictorial Library of the World War, Volume XII|Various