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Continued discipline by companies in keeping costs under control, particularly research and development expenses, is helping the bottom line.
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There have been concerns on Wall Street that research and development expenses are no longer justifiable with current success rates.
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But the high prices of many patent-protected drugs generate the revenues needed to underwrite the massive research and development expenses that the inventors of brand-name drugs incur.
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It also wants an expanded Earned Income Tax Credit, an expanded saver's credit and a permanent exclusion from capital gains taxes on small business investment. (Does anyone think green energy tax credits will vanish anytime soon?) One ghost that keeps returning: the research credit, first introduced in 1981, which allows companies to write off a portion of their research and development expenses.
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Wall Street would probably like Read to bring down research and development and other expenses even more quickly, thereby boosting earnings.
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That cash can only be used for research and development not operating expenses.
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If they can no longer deduct certain expenses like research and development, it will cut into their personal incomes.
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Earnings, however, decreased 37% because of higher selling, general and administrative expenses and a near doubling of research and development costs.
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So were recent Obama proposals to make the research and development tax credit permanent, and to accelerate business' ability to write off expenses.
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The advent of modern research-and-development tools, such as 3D printers, has also helped to lower expenses, he adds.
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Most of Dell's expenses are made up of selling, general and administrative costs rather than research and development.
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