Prospective project sponsors will also be concerned about their ability to transfer abroad or repatriate their profits.

Bringing It Back Home

Under current law, US corporate profits are taxed at a rate of 35 the highest rate among OECD countries, where the average is 25 . That tax is paid on profits earned in the US and on repatriated profits earned by US companies foreign subsidiaries.

The expected profits can be held down by allowing exchange rates to be changed before speculative pressures build.

In case the equity incentive toward the operators and other employees is to be implemented by means of repurchasing shares, the profits necessary for repurchasing shares shall be prepared ahead of schedule as drafting the scheme for profit distribution.

Land access and profit repatriation remained two of the most urgent problems in Algeria.

Thus, for companies setting up subsidiaries in Puerto Rico as controlled foreign corporations, the tax payable on profit remittances to the mainland would be cut from 35 per cent to 10 per cent or less.

6 Defined as net resource flows minus the interest payments on long term debt and profit remittances on account of FDI.

Profit

It would also be desirable to reduce the US corporate tax rate gradually, bringing it closer to the 25 OECD average. That, too, would encourage more repatriation of overseas earnings.

He stressed that development cooperation and partnership were pivotal in ensuring that economic liberalization translated into benefits.

Very lucrative.

The interest again!

They also noted that, due to the widespread foreign firm ownership in extractive industries, higher prices and exports from this sector have also been accompanied by a rise in profit remittances.

Now Coke has a very clear bottom line they report to a set of shareholders, they have to turn a profit.

Longline swordfishing is often only marginally profitable, if profitable at all.

The Profit Sharing Economy

In addition, section 936 of the United States Federal Tax Code provided generous tax incentives to such companies, including the right to tax free repatriation of profits.

Lives versus Profits

Whatever gives the best profit.

For example, the subsidiary of a US firm that operates in Ireland pays the Irish corporate tax of 12.5 on the profits earned in that country. If it repatriates the after tax profits, it pays a 22.5 tax (the difference between the 35 US rate and the 12.5 tax that it already paid to the Irish government).

Foreign direct investment (FDI) and portfolio investments amounted to only 9.9 per cent and 2.1 per cent, respectively, of total net resource flows to the region, while FDI profit remittances slightly exceeded FDI inflows.

People, service, profit.

The oil is priced off the margin.

And so the margin is natural gas.

No. Fair enough? But you do get 5 of the profits.

All other OECD countries treat the profits of their companies foreign subsidiaries very differently, relying on the so called territorial method of taxing foreign earnings. For example, a French firm that invests in Ireland pays the 12.5 Irish corporate tax but is then free to repatriate the after tax profits with a tax of less than 5 .

A number of initiatives have been undertaken by different stakeholders with a view to facilitating the transfer of workers' remittances to their countries of origin and magnifying their impact on the domestic economy.

There goes my percentage.

There's the airplane ticket over and import duties, hidden taxes, profit markup...

If the long revenue recovery process is taken into account, this profit rate could hardly beat the inflation.

A shift to a territorial system of taxation would remove the disadvantages faced by American multinational corporations and encourage them to reinvest their overseas profits at home, increasing US employment and profits. Because only a small share of overseas profits is now repatriated, the US government would lose very little tax revenue by shifting to a territorial system.

In many cases, a combination of capital outflows, profit remittances and the accumulation of exchange reserves greatly reduced net inflows, and of these a growing proportion was absorbed by activities which added little to productive capacity.

Recalling the Convention on the Rights of the Child,United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.

But 350 billion is roughly what the financial sector as a whole earned in an average quarter during the credit boom and profit levels in recent quarters have reached or exceeded those levels. So, if the entire write down cost were covered by banks, most of them would lose the equivalent of no more than one year s profits spread over several years.

A sorcerer's profit on Wall Street?

You don't even break even, much less show a profit.

First, executives for whom shared profits already account for a significant portion of income may resist programs that distribute profits to more workers, fearing that their own income would decline. Even when such programs increase overall profitability, they could reduce the profits going to top management and shareholders.

CA That's a high gross margin business. I like it.

We care how we make our profit.

It's not very lucrative, but it gives me plenty of spare time.

An enterprise invested by the people's government or any of its departments or organs shall hand over the payable state owned profits to the treasury.

But the stress tests and targeted TARP money, the path of least resistance taken, enabled the banks to earn their way back to solvency. However distasteful the uses to which those earnings have been put, they at least prevented the financial system from falling off a cliff.

We had marginal profit I did.

And the last area is profit itself.