Not exact matches
Amazon may also be facing an increased
sales burden from Main Street retail competitors lasting throughout the entire holiday shopping season, with almost half of Amazon Prime members saying they'll spend more
than 50 percent of their holiday shopping dollars at small businesses, either online or in - store.
Now with those same - restaurant
sales assumptions and accelerated new restaurant growth, we expect meaningfully stronger earnings growth in fiscal 2013
than we had in fiscal 2012, and that's because we were
burdened in 2012 with food cost inflation headwinds that we don't anticipate in 2013.
Sale of packaged alcohol (wants convenicence stores to be allowed to sell packaged alcohol); Excise increases on fuel and tobacco (negatively impact small business more
than larger chains); Penalty rates (claim huge cost
burden for small business)
With millions of homeowners underwater on their mortgages — meaning their homes are worth less
than the outstanding mortgage balance — the 2007 Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act eased the
burden on underwater homeowners and facilitated short
sales by making tax - free mortgage debt forgiven through a short
sale.
Some couples may choose to remain separated rather
than getting divorced in order to avoid having to incur a loss due to the
sale of the family home, or to avoid
burdening one or both spouses with mortgage issues.