The fact is, other regions offer higher returns with no more risk than many Asian markets today, or returns that are at least as good without as much risk.
Changes are particularly needed in countries such as Germany and Switzerland, where there are statutory minimum pay-outs which mean that business with guaranteed returns is no longer profitable.
Delayed refund checks due to a late start to the tax season this year and snafus with returns claiming education credits no doubt contributed to slower sales because consumers had less cash in hand.
All of which makes The Boy with No Name that much more of a sparkling surprise, as Travis returns with a sharp batch of winning pop songs.
Past stock returns have a high correlation with current advisor sentiment while current advisor sentiment has no value in forecasting future stock returns.
It's worth noting that no matter which period you look at, the average returns in each scenario are all very similar, with no more than 33 basis points separating any two of them. but you can see much wider swings when comparing the best and worst periods.
As someone with no dog in the fight, I hope RG3 returns to full health.
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Mitt Romney will probably be forced to reveal his returns in due course (presumably with no sex tape to air instead).
For those who qualify, it requires only three years of tax returns and six FBARs, with the promise of no penalties.
Mel Gibson, who has not taken a leading role not in the movies, anyway for quite some time, returns looking older but no less determined, with an uncomfortable hint of despair.
Authorizing a representative becomes a little bit more time consuming: Taxpayers who file joint returns needing assistance in dealing with IRS matters will no longer be allowed to sign a single joint return authorization.
Doctors often have no idea whether a patient with severe arthritis must climb stairs when she returns home.
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With over half our returns being prepared by someone else, it is no wonder that most taxpayers assume their returns are written in some unintelligible runic script.
Employee-owned firms were no different, even though they enjoyed higher stockmarket returns than ones with only capitalist owners.
There is no reason to hamstring businesses launched by those in the higher tax brackets with exorbitant required returns to break even.
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However, participants who were shown an advertisement with no indication of how many funds were operated by the company did not discount the advertised returns.
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There is no evidence supporting the notion that buying mutual funds with superior past performance will lead to superior returns in the years ahead.
Perhaps in an era of 12 percent average returns, their employees were happy with the easy pretax money, two-point lag or no.
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Such ghost-revellers would have expected to see a scowling, long-haired woman in a white funeral gown and with no feet the classic image of the wife who, betrayed and murdered by her husband, returns from the dead to punish her tormentor.
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