As a credit, it reduces your tax bill directly, as opposed to your taxable income.
The 7% Japanese withholding tax on tiny dividends can be recouped as a credit against U.S. taxes.
Britain was not identified as a credit risk by Standard and Poor's in its report earlier this month.
Other innovations, such as a credit for hiring household help, are designed to spur demand for low-wage workers.
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Firms can include this pension surplus as a credit in their income statements.
If that became the case, it could create problems that rarely end well, such as a credit-fueled real estate boom.
"After the experience of the Kazakh bank restructuring, a Kazakh ownership angle is seen as a credit negative, " said Mr. Ash.
The first 5% of people who purchase each movie get their money back as a credit to watch their next movie.
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This is paid either in cash or as a credit against future tax liabilities, and is typically paid a year in arrears.
The financial crisis started as the subprime crisis, spent some time as a credit crisis, and has now morphed into the foreclosure crisis.
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States vary on how they set death taxes, but most limit their take to whatever is allowed as a credit by the federal government.
As with a short call, when you go short a put, you collect the premium on the option as a credit in your account.
Maybe all of this information even feeds a marketing profile, which prompts you to offer the customer a tailored promotion, such as a credit card.
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In the US, it has already brought out a similar device, a dongle that can be plugged into a mobile phone to act as a credit card reader.
An economics graduate of McMaster University in Canada, Teik Ngan joined MBf as a credit officer in 1984, a year before the Malaysian economy went into a tailspin.
The cryptographic token, in development for a year at MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms, is the size of a postage stamp and as thick as a credit card.
Mr Treichl joined it as a credit analyst in New York and worked in its offices in Brussels, Athens and Vienna before joining Erste Bank some 15 years ago.
Donuts Inc. is backed by Austin Ventures, Adams Street Partners, Emergence Capital Partners, TL Ventures, Generation Partners and Stahurricane, as well as a credit facility from Comerica Bank.
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Rather than carrying a wallet, users could wave their wrists and pay for coffee at Starbucks (now, even, without a NFC chip) or use their iWatch as a credit card.
And banks typically require adult authorization for children to set up a bank account with a linked debit card, which can act as a credit card for the purposes of online accounts.
The statements listed the FRNs as collateral (although they had already been sold) and showed the quarterly interest purportedly earned on the FRNs (which were shown as a credit against the loan interest).
This would result in double taxation of foreign earnings that are also taxed by a foreign country, but foreign taxes generally can be claimed as a credit against U.S. taxes on foreign earnings.
Today, thousands of designers, makers, hobbyists and engineers have adopted BeagleBone for its one-of-a-kind functionality as a credit-card-sized Linux computer that connects with the Internet and runs software such as Android 4.0 and Ubuntu.
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One of the latest to go on the market is the ComPass Card in Hong Kong, which works as a credit card, a bank and supermarket card, and even awards bonus points on the holder's birthday.
Unlike the iPhone, the Z10 will allow you to expand storage with a microSD card, and it sports a chip letting the phone act as a credit card at some payment terminals and share data wirelessly when tapped against some other phones.
Besides being almost as thin as a credit card (not really), this award-winning ultracompact boasts a pretty impressive set of features, including a maximum ISO of 4000 (no word on noise at that level, however), 2.5-inch LCD, and Super Shake-Free image stabilization.
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Grace Flint has a microphone the size of a shirt button, connected to a transmitter as thin as a credit card, that will relay any foolish admissions you might make to her from around the corner, or across the city, or from just about any place on earth.
But the survey wrongly included "keeping a small balance on a credit card" as a factor that could hurt a credit score.
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It is too easy for people to take advantage of these programs, which ultimately hurts the people that genuinely need them (case in point: the Earned Income Tax Credit, which, as a refundable credit, is a magnet for unscrupulous tax preparers who seek to take advantage of the potential for higher fees).
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