Some bankers in Moscow and Paris said they were perplexed by the case, as the sum of five million rubles is a fraction of the 100 million rubles per year that the head of a large Russian bank would expect to earn.
Recently IBM, often considered a trendsetter for employee benefits, notified workers that starting next year it is changing the timing of the IBM match and automatic contribution from semi-monthly to an annual lump-sum contribution at the end of the year.
By the middle of the 1990s, it became obvious that these expectations were overblown and that the endowments would not cover the final sum at the end of a 25-year mortgage term.
According to the consulting firm, by the end of March this year, the aggregate indebtedness of the UK - that's the sum of household debts, company debts, government debts and bank debts - had risen to 492% of GDP, or almost five times the value of everything we produce in a single year.
To find this, first calculate the costs basis, add the total of your non-deductible IRA contributions and any after-tax money rolled in from retirement plans, then divide that sum by the total amount of money in all of your IRAs at the end of the year.
Maxim's is arguably the most famous dim sum spot in town, a 32-year-old restaurant in the middle of packed Central district that serves classic Hong Kong-style dishes to locals and visiting dignitaries.
The total sum of bonuses announced by banks this year will be considerably less than last year, because it has been a poorer year for investment banking, which is where the bulk of bonuses are paid.
To figure the five-year-averaging tax on a lump sum payout, you first determine how much a single taxpayer would owe if one-fifth of the lump sum represented all his taxable income for the year.
The sum was more than ten per cent of its profits that year and more than it spent on maintaining its entire network of pipes, but Transneft did not disclose where the cash went.
World investment (the sum of implied net investment plus coins and medals) dipped marginally year-on-year to 282.2 million ounces, or 8, 776 metric tons.
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The 78-year-old woman had a small sum of money taken from her and had to be taken to hospital after suffering serious injuries.
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"Mirror Mirror" may not add up to the sum of its better parts -- and it's a curious time of year to release it -- but there should be an audience for a frivolous family film with this many frills and ruffles.
In sum, what was until last year an imperative for Japanese companies not to be left out of the rush into manufacturing and sourcing in China, is now being tempered and modified by the acute awareness and concern for the strategic business risks involved.
So in January he paid an undisclosed sum to acquire his U.K. distributor, with the idea of selling direct to retailers in Europe by year-end.
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