After each year, the employee receives an additional half a percentage point increase of the pretax profits.

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The company said pretax profits in the second quarter fell 6%, to 2.1 billion pounds.

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The company funnels a portion of its pretax profits to charity each year, and customers get to pick their favorites.

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The top managers of each of Thor's divisions share 15% of the division's pretax profits, with no ceiling on the payouts.

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Even more cogent is pretax profits as a percentage of GDP take out all records excepting the early post-war numbers from 1946 to 1950.

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Pretax profits for these banks as a whole were 3.8% higher for the first nine months of 2007 than they were in the same period last year.

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Each year 10%of Magna's pretax profits are distributed to employees.

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He pulls down 12% in pretax profits.

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But pretax profits are up 131%.

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Naoko Matsumoto, an analyst at Merrill Lynch in Tokyo, figures this will trim publicly listed JR East's pretax earnings 5% this year and cut into profits through the year 2017.

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Sageworks calculates net profit margin using pretax net profit, with owner compensation added back in to reflect true operational profits.

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