Sainsbury's has posted a fall in pre-tax profits despite rising sales, as conditions remain "challenging".
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But when a corporation distributes part of its post-tax profits to shareholders, this is a transfer.
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Dundee-based ATM advertising firm i-design has reported "encouraging" opportunities for growth after posting first-half pre-tax profits.
The remainder is often corporations that use their after-tax profits to make capital expenditures.
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Net debt is down from nearly five times pre-tax profits to less than three.
The company said it expected full-year pre-tax profits to be ahead of last year.
Pre-tax profits for 1998-99 were DKr1.63 billion, 27% lower than in the previous year.
Stoke-on-Trent ceramics manufacturer Portmeirion has announced an increase in pre-tax profits of almost 21%.
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.
The Obama administration is looking to tax profits from carried interests as personal earnings instead of capital gain.
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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.
Last month, Wood Group reported a 43% increase in pre-tax profits for 2012.
Overall, capital markets pre-tax profits are seen dropping 40% from the first quarter.
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Companies have reported an average increase in after-tax profits last year of 12%.
It is maintaining its forecast that pre-tax profits will grow 20% in 2013.
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For the first quarter of this year, the level of after-tax profits of non-financial companies is now more than 20% lower than originally reported.
Its huge, long-running contract with Saudi Arabia, known as al-Yamamah, accounts for more than a quarter of its pre-tax profits, according to Mr Fothergill.
The report I wrote with Pierre Collin mainly recommends that developed countries recover the power to tax profits made by giant tech companies.
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If corporate tax rates fall, it will immediately increase corporate after-tax profits in the U.S., and this should make stocks more attractive to all investors.
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Terry Duddy, chief executive of Argos' parent, Home Retail Group, said the strong sales meant the group's pre-tax profits were on course to beat forecasts.
But other researchers have estimated that in 2010, private U.S. firms accounted for nearly 59 percent of sales and nearly 49 percent of aggregate pre-tax profits.
Pre-tax profits (with inventory and capital consumption adjustments) declined at a 9.2% annual rate in Q2 and are down 7% since last year, the worst since 2001.
Each country may only tax profits generated in that country.
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Tax forum shopping is becoming something of a trend these days with athletes in particular hopping from venue to venue in an effort to maximize their after-tax profits.
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Boeing's after-tax profits were dragged down by the reversion of its effective tax rate from a favourable 27% of earnings in 2011 to a more normal 34% last year.
Other things being equal, the value of an option in a company that retains all its after-tax profits is considerably greater than in one that makes a meaningful distribution.
Statutory pre-tax profits remained flat while revenues rose slightly.
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