One guide might be the net present value of future tax payments, minus the net costs of public services disbursed there.
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So there are no public net costs to alcohol consumption.
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Mr. Schneider says students should compare net college costs after projected aid. (They can approximate net costs using the government's College Navigator tool) The riskiest investment is a high-cost liberal-arts college that lacks a strong brand name and doesn't offer much aid, says Mr. Schneider.
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To get a real picture of a sale, you need to compare like for like, counting both pre-sale estimates and post-sale prices as being net of costs.
However, there is also a psychological reason why pre-sale estimates and post-sale prices are calculated differently: a pre-sale estimate that is quoted net of costs is lower, which helps attract potential bidders.
The primary budget balance, which excludes net interest costs, thus providing a truer picture of government receipts minus expenditures in a given year, also appeared more favorable for the euro area in 2009.
Net shipping costs what Amazon pays to ship stuff minus the amount it collects from customers who pay for shipping rose to 3.9% of sales during the first three quarters of this year, up from 3.3% a year earlier.
Price parity is net of transportation costs and of import taxes both.
To be sure, the performance numbers we publish are net of all costs (other than the sales load, if any, you pay on entering the fund).
But it has some important exceptions: Even in the late middle ages, the theologians-cum-proto-economists realized that the arbitrage effect is net of transportation costs.
Indeed often times there is no net gain after those costs are paid.
Prices would be higher at the pump and in the multitude of other things that might be affected by a carbon tax but the entire amount, presumably net of some administration costs, would be distributed.
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Considering continuation of low employment costs and minimal net interest expense profit margins pre-and-after tax hang in.
The maximum loss is the net premium paid and transaction costs.
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Interpublic (nyse: IPG - news - people ) posted a quarterly net loss because of higher severance costs.
The finance ministers of Norway and Saudi Arabia have no cause to worry about their borrowing costs because they are net creditors.
You are supposed to cough up roughly 5% of your net worth every year toward college costs, in addition to a large piece of your paycheck.
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His system has a design that makes it easier to get the air through it, uses cheaper materials and does not draw electricity from the grid, which adds to costs and reduces the net amount of carbon stored (since grid electricity comes with carbon emissions attached, from the fuel used to make it).
Excluding acquisition costs, General Mills reported net profit of 76 cents per share.
They had been writing for an organization called openDemocracy.net throughout the war about the humanitarian costs of the war in Iraq.
There are other laws in place that could refund as much as 20% of other costs and 25% of net losses incurred.
This reduction in costs should ultimately provide a net gain to society.
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The Dutch firm's underlying profitability in the last quarter - net of the fine and various restructuring costs - improved to 875m euros, beating the expectations of most market analysts.
During her time at Wellesley, Harvard noted, Mendillo produced average annualized returns of 13.5%, net of fees and expenses and the costs of this restructuring, and beat her benchmark each year.
And while the bank was helped by higher fee-based income streams over the last two quarters, it lacked such a benefit this time around with better net income figures resulting from improved operating costs and reduced provisions as described above.
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Net keeps its head afloat since the costs to run the free service are embedded in the retail CD-ROM price (plus selling a million copies of the game doesn't hurt), along with banner advertising and special promotions to make up the difference.
Greater scrutiny of correspondent banking networks of Iranian and other targeted banks, as well as the external banking relationships of larger state-owned enterprises, would broaden the financial net considerably and result in higher transaction costs and outright disruptions of these vital "life-support" components.
And the net has to take account of the fixed costs as well as the marginal ones.
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We broke the cycle of dependency, reestablished welfare as the safety net it was meant to be and cut costs significantly.
Finally, we calculate the net-present-value of all those costs to capture the opportunity cost of tying your money up in a down payment .
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