They add up the price you paid for all your shares, including those bought with reinvested dividends and capital gains distributions, and divide by the number of shares you own.
Consider the calculation of "disposable income, " supposedly what's left after you've paid all secured debts (like your mortgage) and living expenses.
If your deductions total more than the total income you earn during the year, the government owes you all the taxes you paid during the year and a percentage of your negative income.
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In fact, you may get not a penny more back in exchange for all the taxes you paid to Social Security, grueling work week after grueling work week, year after year.
Nice if you can get it, but not much use if you are not being paid at all.
After all, you paid for the technology.
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"You're learning all the time and you're getting paid, " he said.
But if that is indeed so then of course you will already have paid, voluntarily, that extra tax which you believe all should pay, right?
If the company paid all its earnings in dividends, it would take you 10 years to get paid back in earnings.
All those premium rates you paid over the years, to reach those age and sex groupings, were wasted money.
In heaven, there are no debts -- all have been paid, one way or another -- but in hell there's nothing but debts, and a great deal of payment is exacted, though you can't ever get all paid up.
One study suggests that when you consider all taxes, the share paid by the wealthiest 1% falls to 21.6%, close to their share of pre-tax income, whereas the poorest quintile pay 2.1%, not much below their share of pre-tax income.
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If you work for several years on something and get paid all in one year, your income is pushed needlessly into a higher tax bracket.
At which point the Feds will charge you all of the tax you would ever have paid anyway.
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That cuts the number of players down to a small handful, all of whom know very well what you paid and how that compares to others on the market they may very well like as much or more.
When corporations send you the annual 1099 dividend form, they also report all taxes paid by your shares, which count against your AMaxT.
Or also, were you all thinking about issuing an order about which creditors would be paid first?
Easy to communicate with, including providing you with a clear fee schedule, an accessible single point of contact, a reliable, simple method of transmitting files electronically, and a plain English agreement that explains all terms clearly, including how and when you will be paid.
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Then if you add in the value of all of the tax, the benefits paid out, then add in again all of the government services (in the UK including health as well as education, defence and so on) the actual gap in consumption possibilities falls to about 6 to 1.
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So, it paid businesses to produce these products, and then all of the sudden you had full employment.
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Snob--one component of a Russian media entity that also includes a website, a social network and live events, all open only to paid members--is not, as you might guess, a celebration of wealth and status but a rather serious and highbrow forum for ideas and culture.
With this approach, because standard, long term, market investment returns are so much higher than the implicit returns paid by completely noninvested, pay-as-you-go Social Security, all workers who exercise the personal accounts would receive more in benefits through the personal accounts earning standard long term returns than the Social Security benefits they replace.
So, for now, just because we're not forcing you to be the person your grandmother knits socks for when you comment on Engadget, please remember: we're all real people, somewhere, and deleting the 700 "you're paid by Apple" comments isn't fun for those real people.
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"All the European countries who paid ransoms have denied that they paid ransoms and you know perhaps they can deny it because it's gone indirectly through various channels in the Malian government, " she told the BBC's Newshour programme.
As we'd figured out last night, Symbian's big reveal for today was the completion of its move to a fully open, royalty-free platform -- meaning you no longer need to be a paid-in-full member of the Foundation to see all the code -- and they're ready to talk about it and spread the word far and wide.
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But you have to be prepared to handle all the things that you may not have thought about, like people have to get paid, H.
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