Pre-tax income in Technology Services rose 7%, while Business Services was even stronger, up 17%.
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As early as 2010 employees have been making pre-tax contributions to help pay for this coverage.
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Individuals buy health care at a pre-tax income whereas we pay for everything post-tax income.
Sainsbury's has posted a fall in pre-tax profits despite rising sales, as conditions remain "challenging".
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The target of a 20% pre-tax margin at MSSB by 2012 has been quietly dropped.
FSAs enable you to set aside pre-tax dollars to pay for qualified health care costs.
To learn more about pre-tax benefits, like healthcare FSAs, ask your human resources department.
Dundee-based ATM advertising firm i-design has reported "encouraging" opportunities for growth after posting first-half pre-tax profits.
Net debt is down from nearly five times pre-tax profits to less than three.
That compares with a 39m euro pre-tax profit in the same period last year.
However, the underlying pre-tax profit at its banking operations fell 72% to 184m euros.
The company said it expected full-year pre-tax profits to be ahead of last year.
The faithful are expected to give 10% of their pre-tax income to the church.
Pre-tax profits for 1998-99 were DKr1.63 billion, 27% lower than in the previous year.
Back in 2010, Gorman told investors the goal was a 20% pre-tax profit margin.
Stoke-on-Trent ceramics manufacturer Portmeirion has announced an increase in pre-tax profits of almost 21%.
Previously, munis almost always yielded less than Treasuries (on a pre-tax basis), due to the tax advantage.
Germany's Thyssen Krupp last week announced that its pre-tax profits slid sharply during the past two quarters.
For a decade, Target has donated 5% of its pre-tax profits to the cities where it operates.
Operating pre-tax profit in the wealth management business was the highest in the bank's history, said Mr Gorman.
Aberdeen-based oil and gas firm John Wood Group has unveiled a 43% increase in pre-tax profits for 2012.
He wants Xstrata to raise its contribution to a social fund from 3% to 30% of pre-tax profits.
But suppose you have some of each: some pre-tax and some after-tax money in your IRA (or IRAs).
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Tax Deferral: Pre-tax contributions allow you to defer the taxes until you withdraw the money from your plan.
For people do indeed look at post-tax, risk adjusted returns, not pre-tax, as we can quite easily prove.
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You may also want to convert as much of your pre-tax retirement money to Roth accounts as you can.
The alternative would be to close the loophole and bar all OTC medications from being purchased with pre-tax funds.
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According to its published accounts, the company made a pre-tax loss in 2010-11 and paid no dividends to shareholders.
So pre-tax employee contributions to retirement accounts would effectively face an 11.6% tax.
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To focus on one pre-tax loss figure is to miss a much bigger, more complex and more interesting picture.
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