So, for example, a strong showing in
the Cost of Doing Business category — worth 450 out of a total of 2021 points — is much more important to a state's overall score than Access to Capital, which is worth 50points.
Michigan's ranking in our important
Cost of Doing Business category has barely budged — 32nd then, 31st now — in part because we consider tax burdens on individuals and corporations in computing costs.
in our all - important
Cost of Doing Business category.
The state has the fifth - highest tax burden in the nation, according to the Tax Foundation, contributing to Wisconsin's 26th place ranking in
our Cost of Doing Business category compared to 24th four years ago.
We consider more than just taxes in
our Cost of Doing Business category.
North Dakota drops to 22nd place from 12th last year in our all - important
Cost of Doing Business category.
Not exact matches
Overall score: 1,615 out
of 2,500 points Best
categories: Education (No. 2), Quality
of Life (No. 3) Worst
categories:
Cost of Doing Business (No. 36),
Business Friendliness (No. 33) 2016 rank: No. 4
Overall score: 1,562 out
of 2,500 points Best
categories: Workforce (No. 4), Technology & Innovation (No. 7) Worst
categories:
Cost of Doing Business (No. 38),
Cost of Living (No. 32) 2016 rank: No. 3
While the Commonwealth improves this year in
Cost of Doing Business and finishes in the top 10 for Technology & Innovation, it slips to 29th from 10th in the Economy
category.
In ranking the states, we scored all 50 on more than 40 measures
of competitiveness, which were then separated into ten broad
categories, such as
cost of doing business, workforce and quality
of life.
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cost to acquire the goods (without co-op agents selling your MLS listings, perhaps they would never sell and this is in fact «a
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do any other calculations, (
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category, even so they appear on the Balance Sheet as a payable) because those
costs are in fact fixed expenses, and must be deducted from gross BRANCH income before anything else, making the co-op dollars, in fact, part
of the
cost of doing business.