But it now seems that KirchMedia has not been passing on to Premiere all the costs incurred on its behalf.

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Although they must absorb 100 percent of all the costs incurred above the fixed amount the government provides, if they should manage to deliver their vehicle concepts for less than the amount allotted, they only get to keep 20 percent of savings.

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And all these costs are incurred before a single rupiah of revenue is seen.

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Worst of all, these costs have been incurred for no good reason.

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Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister of the UK, has proposed that shares in one of the banks that was for all practical purposes nationalised in 2008 by the last Labour government should be distributed to all taxpayers in the UK as compensation for the costs that they have incurred in bailing out the banks.

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He also proposes immediate expensing for capital investment, which means that capital costs can be deducted in the year they are incurred, like all other business expenses, rather than spread over many years under arbitrary depreciation schedules.

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All MPs had to sign off their expenses confirming that they "incurred these costs wholly, exclusively and necessarily to enable me to stay overnight away from my only or main home for the purpose of performing my duties" as an MP.

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