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A 10% Ceiling Rate on Member States' Assessments
to the UN Regular Budget
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The 10% ceiling rate was originally proposed in 1985 by Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, who argued that "a more even distribution of the assessed contributions would better reflect the fact that this organization is the instrument of all nations."
A 10% ceiling rate on member states' assessments would lower the assessments of the US and Japan, while increasing the assessments of other member states. The table below looks at how a 10% cap model could reorganize the 2006 budget among the 15 largest contributors. In this model, 13 countries share the cost of the decrease in US and Japanese assessments and 3 countries are affected by the 10% cap (US, Japan and Germany). The additional amount assigned to each country (Assessment Change) is calculated according to the current scale of assessment.
UN Regular Budget for 2006: US$1,925 million
All numbers in US$ million(Created by Tobias Schiedermair, March 2006)
The Assessment Changes in Comparison
* France and the UK would face the largest increase of assessments, totaling a combined US$138 million - equivalent to the construction costs of 330 meters of the train tunnel connecting both countries. (PBS)
** These countries would face additional costs equivalent to 0.11% (Australia), 0.16% (Brazil) and 0.21% (Netherlands) of their national military expenses in 2004. (The World Factbook 2005)
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