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Public opinion on inflation and progressive taxation

Almost a half of Czech citizens (49 %) consider current inflation to be acceptable, on contrary roughly a third of people share opposite opinion. Present evaluation of inflation has been historically the most positive since 1993, when this survey started.

21 % of citizens regard taxation on high-income earners as high, 22 % say it is adequate and 44 % think it is low. Taxation on average-income earners is considered to be high by 50 % of respondents, adequate by 39 %, low by 3 % of citizens.

Taxation on low-income earners was supposed to be high by almost three quarters of people (73 %), adequate by 16 % and low by 2 % .67 % of respondents think that tax rate should be higher for high-income earners than for low-income earners.

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