The average U.S. corporate tax rate is 35%, not counting discounts and write-offs, with many in Congress calling for it to be reduced to 25%.
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Even a modest write-down would render many European banks insolvent.
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Whether such ideas would prompt many more write-downs is unclear.
Many of the write-downs will be made on loans originated by Countrywide Financial Corp.
The crunchy problem of "read-write" molecular gates will take many years to solve, right?
While there are recent signs that some large institutional investors are warming again to high-risk real-estate funds, many of the biggest remain sour on them after suffering big write-downs.
It still won't pay U.S. federal income taxes for many years due to the write-offs.
Also recall the huge write-offs by Merrill Lynch, Citigroup and many others, due to drastically lower prices on CDOs and other instruments related to subprime mortgages.
Shares in European banks tumbled on Tuesday morning as a result, with Barclays, a British bank with fewer write-downs and a lower capital cushion than many of its peers, taking the worst punishment.
Many financial observers anticipate further write-offs by U.S. banks, as they have not been forced to mark to market their entire loan portfolios, but have instead kept them on the books at their original prices or levels far higher than the current market.
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The Empowered app, which took a little less than a year to write, incorporates many of the device's built-in functions.
These food media outlets include this column, the many airline in-flight magazines I write for, and the consumer magazines newspapers and guide books I regularly contribute to (everything from Outside to Cigar Aficionado, where I am the Contributing Travel Editor).
Many shelters attacked by the IRS involve multiple tax write-offs.
He noted yesterday that while he averaged about 200 reviews per year at the Chicago Sun-Times, the last year had seen him write 306, plus many blogposts.
Leaving aside the question of what Parliament will do for the next few months, given the gaping hole in the legislative programme left by the demise of Lords reform, I wonder how many other new ministers will be seeking to re-write live legislation.
He says many of his competitors buy from the same manufacturers and use the same write-ups.
By the time Scott Fitzgerald came to write his book the area contained almost 2, 000 mansions, many with large and well-tended estates.
Particularly in London, many people read and write at a standard well below what is expected of an 11-year-old.
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Not only did Moen write all the songs on Perhapst's self-titled debut, he also contributes the vocals and plays many of the instruments himself, with the notable exception of a guest spot by Stephen Malkmus on guitar.
So, if you ask your doctor to write a prescription for half as many 10 mg pills, you can save almost 50% on the out-of-pocket total for a 30-day supply, after cutting them in half.
Dan Rostenkowski, the steak-and-martinis Chicago Democrat who reigned over the House Ways and Means Committee for 13 years, used to write off many of his golf outings as campaign expenditures.
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