They say global piracy is looting billions of dollars of their hard-earned profits every year.
Team valuations would soon go skyward thanks to the league erasing a success penalty that funnels hard earned profits to the laggards.
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Dividends is real way to transfer company earned profits to shareholder accounts.
It simply is not true that reinvestment of profits must be done by the corporations that earned those profits.
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Since 2010, American companies have earned record profits every year and are poised to do so again in 2012.
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Delta has not earned economic profits since 2008, and until it shows it can create shareholder value it is a risky buy.
In the past, Marsh earned big profits from its mutual-fund subsidiary, Putnam.
The IRS first taxes profits earned by a corporation, and again taxes the proportion of profits distributed as dividends.
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More money chasing the same profits obviously lowers the profits earned by any portion of that money.
Second, any government funding or profits earned must be used to lower premiums, expand benefits or expand enrollment.
It has not earned positive economic profits in any year going back to 1998 when our model begins.
Almost every other major economy has a territorial tax system, which taxes only the business profits earned in that country.
Critics of the tax code also say it puts U.S. companies at a disadvantage because it taxes their profits earned abroad.
Profits earned from credit-card balances are captured on the income statement, even though a big chunk of the balances are securitised.
At present, the way Heathrow calculates its landing charges takes into account the profits earned from all the airport's businesses, including retailing.
Such a fund would be self sustaining if it were a not for profit organization and reinvested profits earned in expanding services.
The effect would be to claw back profits earned by excessive risk-taking.
All Baker's partners share a portion of profits, but national rules in many countries dictate that profits earned locally have to be shared locally.
In the year ended March 2010 for the first time the profits earned by the 10 daily goods producers exceeded those of the luxury goods producers.
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Savings from not having to convert profits earned in different European currencies or to hedge against currency fluctuations amount to more than 10% of De Kuyper's annual profits.
This proposal could see the profits earned by a multi-national company shared proportionately among member states according to how much of it was earned in each EU country.
"Reports of lower effective tax rates appear to arrive at their figures by running together the profits earned by group companies in Ireland and in other jurisdictions, " Kenny said.
And he has vowed to cut the inaptly named "business privilege tax, " which takes 6.5% of any profits earned in the city plus 0.15% of the revenue even from a moneylosing enterprise.
The decision to drastically cut back in Florida came after the hurricane season of 2004, when four hurricanes hit Florida, wiping out all the profits earned by Allstate in the state since Hurricane Andrew in 1992.
Although critics argue that traditional book publishing takes too much money from authors, in reality the profits earned by the relatively small percentage of authors whose books make money essentially go to subsidizing less commercially successful writers.
Second, tax specialists complain that Mr Osborne is not being bold enough: they say, for example, that the so-called "patent box", the device for lowering the tax on profits earned from UK intellectual property, will benefit only a limited number of firms.
Some remarkable research by our sister paper, Financial News, found that in a sample of eight of the biggest investment banks and investment banking divisions of universal banks, the compensation paid over the past five years amounted to 2.6 times the pre-tax profits earned.
Many proposals--like the one allowing companies to recoup taxes on profits earned in the last five years, rather that just in the last two years as the law stands now--tend to favor large businesses with a phalanx of lawyers to parse those loopholes, a luxury most small companies can't afford.
Corporate tax rates should be lower, tax rates on profits earned outside the U.S. should promote repatriation of much of that money, capital gains taxes should remain low or lowered even more, subsidies and loopholes that no longer make sense or are unfair need to be eliminated, and the list goes on.
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