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  2. List of countries by tax rates - Wikipedia

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    South Africa: 28% [212] 0% (below threshold) 45% 15% [213] 18% Taxation in South Africa South Korea [43] 24.2% [102] 6% + 1.8% [214] 42% [215] + 11.4% [214] 10% Taxation in South Korea South Sudan: 30% — — — Taxation in South Sudan Spain [40] 25% (in mainland) 4% (in Canary Islands) 0% (first €5,550 per year is tax free) 52.3

  3. Taxation in South Africa - Wikipedia

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    Around 70% of the tax collected was from the finance, manufacturing, and retail and wholesale trade sectors. In 2017/18 the mining and quarrying sector represented only 0.7% of all companies in South Africa and provided 7.2% of the assessed tax, reflecting the declining importance of the mining sector to the South African economy

  4. Vigorish - Wikipedia

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    For example, 1. 90 /2.00 pricing of an even match is 4.55% vigorish, and 1.95/1.95 pricing is 2.38% vigorish. Vigorish percentage for three-way events may be calculated using the following formula: [5] = / + / + / / + / + / where p, q and t are the decimal payouts for each outcome. For comparison, for over round calculation only the upper part ...

  5. Gambling mathematics - Wikipedia

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    The mathematics of gambling is a collection of probability applications encountered in games of chance and can get included in game theory.From a mathematical point of view, the games of chance are experiments generating various types of aleatory events, and it is possible to calculate by using the properties of probability on a finite space of possibilities.

  6. South African National Lottery - Wikipedia

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    The National Lottery was introduced to South Africa on 11 March 2000. At the time it was run by Uthingo. [citation needed]After a marketing effort that aimed to reach 80 percent of South African homes directly [5] more than 800,000 tickets were sold in the first day of availability [6] Nearly R70 million worth of tickets were sold in the first three weeks of operation.

  7. Spread betting - Wikipedia

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    Spread betting was invented by Charles K. McNeil, a mathematics teacher from Connecticut who became a bookmaker in Chicago in the 1940s. [5] In North America, the gambler usually wagers that the difference between the scores of two teams will be less than or greater than the value specified by the bookmaker, with even money for either option.

  8. Capital gains tax - Wikipedia

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    The tax rate on long-term gains was reduced in 1997 via the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 from 28% to 20% and again in 2003, via the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003, from 20% to 15% for individuals whose highest tax bracket is 15% or more, or from 10% to 5% for individuals in the lowest two income tax brackets (whose highest ...

  9. Gambler's fallacy - Wikipedia

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    The gambler's fallacy, also known as the Monte Carlo fallacy or the fallacy of the maturity of chances, is the belief that, if an event (whose occurrences are independent and identically distributed) has occurred less frequently than expected, it is more likely to happen again in the future (or vice versa).