By and large, businesses welcomed this tidying up, even though they will pay more tax during a four-year transition to a new system of payment, under which big firms will pay tax quarterly on a current-year basis, rather than in arrears as now.

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Though you'd pay much more over its life, a 40-year loan at current interest rates would be considerably less expensive on a monthly basis than your existing loan.

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Obvious questions like how big the economy will be in 2065 or what it would cost to maintain the current air fleet through that year are left unanswered, so policymakers and legislators have little basis for comparing F-35 support costs with available resources or alternative modernization strategies.

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Korean giant Samsung is offering its entire line on a two-year installment basis at zero interest -- an effective discount of 20% based on current financing costs.

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The Miami-based company issued guidance of a 2% to 3% net revenue increase for the full year, but given the shift in currency exchange rates, Carnival expects revenue yields on a current dollar basis to be flat for fiscal 2010 compared to 2009.

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On this basis, the current value is 121.35, down 3.2 percent points from last year end.

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