There are more than 7, 000 sales tax jurisdictions in the U.S. The SSUTA is meant to reconcile state sales-and-use tax rules and bring uniformity to the definition of items in the sales-tax base.
It certainly appears that in the case of Syria Russia is motivated purely by the most cynical considerations imaginable including weapons sales, the use of a military base, and a general desire to play the spoiler to any Western diplomatic and military initiatives.
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The company added 1.2 million smartphone subscribers, who now account for 72% of its postpaid subscriber base and 88% of sales in the segment.
The downside: the sales increase came off a low base, thanks to the disaster of 2009, and the 0.6% rise in December sales over last year was less than expected.
The company says it spent efforts to add customers to its base, partly in anticipation of sales of the Apple iPhone, beating the estimates by adding 955, 000 net customers in Q4.
The downside: The sales increase came off a low base, thanks to the disaster of 2009, and the tepid 0.3% rise in January sales reported Tuesday was about half what economists had predicted.
This becomes more complex as the business expands and suddenly there are infrastructure costs that require a minimum amount of sales, which requires expanding the customer base through marketing and maximizing repeat sales.
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Until that point, Microchip had opted for the standard, incentive-heavy system, in which base pay represented 60% of sales compensation, and commissions accounted for the remaining 40%.
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For one, in a predatory global market, we would be eliminating a facility that constitutes a vital source of financing for the commercial industrial base for foreign sales.
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It would double the size of HP's sales force and broaden its customer base, providing more potential clients for its services and consulting arms.
Taking this as a base prediction, monthly vehicle sales for the balance of this year should be a good indicator as to trends in the overall Chinese economy.
The first looks at a base case of just pharmaceutical sales.
It would increase national interest in the team, boost merchandise sales and likely add a new base of ticket purchasers.
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But Tim says bad debts are only 0.3% of sales, and with small business increasingly dependent on technology, the potential customer base has scarcely been tapped.
Nor did it have to do with our base salary, commission structure, or the talent of our sales force.
In an act of heresy, Microchip switched to a model with more generous base salaries, accounting for 90% of total sales pay with the final 10% coming in the form of bonuses tied to overall corporate profitability and other broad metrics.
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Yet with all of that year-over-year growth, which started from a small initial base, the Internet still accounts for just 7% of overall retail sales.
Property sales are rising and housing construction began to gain momentum from a low base by the second half of the year.
Plus their analytics-supported approach also enabled Gemvara to track design favorites and buying patterns to keep honing what it offers and how, thus growing their customer base and per-customer sales while honing customer service, based on the knowledge of how customers want to be served.
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The chart of existing home sales does appears to have bottomed, as it has broken out of its base formation.
The challenge is that sustaining growth and innovation through acquisition is good when the goal is to address real customer problems but not when the goal is the more cynical goal of merely selling yet another product through an existing sales channel to an existing customer base.
Jobs that rely on commissions usually have base salaries, but the additional compensation that comes from making sales accounts for a significant chunk of their annual paychecks.
Xerox was a multinational corporation, with shareholders, a huge sales force, and a vast corporate customer base, and it needed to consider every new idea within the context of what it already had.
GameStop, which also trades for just 0.4 times trailing 12-month sales and 1.3 times book value, also gets strong interest from the model I base on the writings of hedge fund guru Joel Greenblatt.
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