Sentences with phrase «cent of the previous year»

Under the current rules, which have been around since 1990, the amount you can contribute to your RRSP on an annual basis is limited to 18 per cent of your previous year's (i.e. 2016) «earned income,» up to a yearly maximum of $ 26,010 for 2017, less any pension adjustment.

The maximum contribution amount at that time was 10 per cent of the previous year's income, subject to a $ 2,500 maximum.

Not exact matches

-- Net debt ballooned to $ 269.2 billion for the year ending March 31 from $ 252.1 billion the previous year, leaving a debt - to - GDP ratio of 38.9 per cent, which is expected to grow to 40.3 per cent next year.

In the previous year, the company posted 12 cents on revenue of $ 479 million.

«While it's positive that so many eligible Canadians plan to contribute towards their retirement this year, we know from previous years that only 26 per cent of eligible tax filers actually make a contribution to their RRSP,» said Jamie Golombek, a managing director of tax and estate planning at CIBC.

The 7/22 FT reported: «Across countries that use the euro, average debt to gross domestic product reached 92.9 per cent in the first quarter of 2015, up from 92 per cent in the previous quarter and 91.9 per cent in the same period last year, according to figures from Eurostat, the EU's statistical agency.»

WA SUCCESS story ERG Group has achieved record operating profit of $ 35.2 million for the year ending June 30, 2000 — a 73 per cent increase on the previous period.

Antares, which was known as Amity Oil until November last year, announced a half year profit to December 31 of $ 8.2 million, which was 15 per cent higher than the previous corresponding period.

THE fundamentals of the gold market clearly supported a higher price, this year and in the future, according to Newmont chairman and CEO Ronald Cambre.The basis of his argument is that record consumption in 1999 was seven per cent above the previous...

For the previous quarter, the company said it had diluted earnings per share of 76 cents, an increase of about 114 percent from the prior - year period.

Meanwhile, TD Bank's (TSX: TD) Bharat Masrani received $ 9 million in total direct compensation during his first full year in the top job — an increase of 10 per cent from the previous year.

Production is running at record levels in the financial year to date and BHP produced 58 million tonnes of iron ore during the quarter, up 8 per cent on the previous corresponding period.

According to the U.S. Solar Industries Association, in the first three quarters of 2014, solar delivered 36 per cent of America's new power needs, up from 9.6 per cent just two years previous.

The Minneapolis - based financial services company also announced a dividend of 90 cents per share, an 8 percent increase over the previous quarter and the 11th quarterly dividend increase in the last nine years.

The broader document is generally optimistic about this year's global prospects, with worldwide growth being on an upswing and a larger - than - previous forecast of a 3.9 per cent increase for 2018.

The document projects the government to set the growth of program spending at two per cent per year, a target it says would be far below the 4.4 per cent annual average increases of previous Liberal governments.

From around 5.4 per cent at the time of the previous Statement, yields on 10 - year bonds fell to a low of 5.1 per cent in mid December, but have since risen back to near 5.4 per cent.

The Wage Cost Index (WCI) for total hours (excluding bonuses), an indicator of movements in average wage rates, increased by 2.8 per cent over the year to the March quarter 2000, which is close to the previous readings for this indicator (Graph 41).

In terms of output per hour worked, year - ended productivity growth has eased to about 1 3/4 per cent, down from the average of 3 1/4 per cent prevailing in the previous three years.

Enterprise bargaining outcomes in the early part of the year also suggested little change in the rate of wage growth; new federal enterprise agreements in the March quarter yielded an average annualised increase of 3.4 per cent, unchanged from the previous quarter.

Private dwelling investment grew by 10 per cent in the March quarter and by almost 14 per cent over the previous year, and now accounts for over 6 per cent of GDP, the highest in over twenty years (Graph 16).

The Australian dollar has depreciated from its mid-February peak, by around 6 1/2 per cent on a trade - weighted basis, following a period of strong appreciation over the previous year and a half.

The report from Sotheby's International Realty Canada says sales of homes worth $ 1 million or more in the Greater Toronto Area rose 48 per cent in 2015 from the previous year.

The previous Liberal government having increased spending 47 per cent in its last six years in office; the Conservatives having increased spending another 19 per cent in its first three years («good times»), and a further 20 per cent over the next two («bad times»); after doubling spending, in short, in the space of a decade, the government's notion of restraint is more or less to leave it there.

The median price of freehold properties decreased by 8.4 per cent over the same month of the previous year, while the median price for condominium properties decreased by 2.1 one per cent compared to the same period.

Some other resource prices have also edged higher with, for example, the US dollar contract prices for iron ore for the Japanese fiscal year 2003/04 (beginning 1 April 2003) rising by around 9 per cent on levels of the previous year.

Even while sales were down from the previous year, the total dollar volume of sales reached a new high of $ 8.972 billion, which resulted in a 14.4 per cent increase in all - property average sale price for the year.

The median price of freehold properties decreased by 8.2 per cent over the same month of the previous year while the median price for condominium properties increased by almost one per cent compared to the same period.

At the time of the previous Statement the Bank judged that underlying inflation was likely to fall slightly to around 2 1/2 per cent in the second half of 2003, and to remain around that rate over the following year.

The median price of freehold properties increased by 7.8 per cent over the same month of the previous year while the median price for condominium properties increased by 49.1 per cent compared to the same period.

In the three months to July, the average level of recorded employment was 2.1 per cent higher than a year earlier, but lower than the average level in the previous three months (Graph 33).

Total household assets rose by 6 per cent over the year to the December quarter 2004 (Table 7), in line with income but well below the average of previous years.

National accounts data record a GDP decline of 17 per cent over the first two quarters of 1998, after a flat performance during the previous year, and imports have continued to fall rapidly.

Employment has continued to grow strongly, with the average level of employment in the three months to December up by around 1.2 per cent on the previous three months and 2.3 per cent on levels a year earlier (Graph 41).

Correspondingly, the current account deficit has also widened over the past couple of years, although the deficit for the September quarter, at around 6 per cent of GDP (assuming that the net income deficit remains constant as a share of GDP), is likely to have been smaller than in the previous quarter.

The median expectation of consumer price inflation over the year ahead now stands at 3.5 per cent, compared with levels of well over 4 per cent in the previous couple of years.

64 per cent of respondents plan to spend more on corporate travel in 2018; this is consistent with the upward trend seen in previous years

In its full year results announced in February, the group's insurance profit margin of 9.7 percent was near the top end of guidance of 8.5 percent to 10 percent, while its COR was within target range at 93.2 compared to 94.3 per cent for the previous corresponding period.

Half - year profits of the 158 companies in the ASX 200 index that reported for the half year to December 2004 amounted to $ 29 billion, 91 per cent higher than in the corresponding period of the previous year (Graph D1).

This measure has fluctuated around the 3 per cent mark for much of the past year, but is well below the levels of the previous two years.

According to a survey released in 2016 by the Association of Professional Financial Advisers, 69 per cent of advisers said they had turned away potential clients within the previous year, with 43 per cent citing affordability.

The previous day the company reported net income attributable to common stockholders of $ 976 million in the fourth quarter of 2017, or $ 1.80 a diluted share, compared with a loss of $ 515 million or 94 cents a share in the same period a year earlier.

In the past five years, in a reversal of previous practices, the number of elderly Japanese citizens living by themselves has increased by a startling 30 per cent.

If by some way humanity were able to reduce the environmental impact of all its technologies by 10 per cent and there were no increase in per - person affluence, world population growth would return the collective impact of humans to the previous level in about five years.

According to the food security survey of the US Department of Agriculture, 96 per cent of poor parents stated that their children were never hungry at any time in the previous year.

Australian Food News reported in August 2014 that had announced a profit of $ 182.3 million for the first half of 2014, a drop of 19 per cent compared to the previous year before significant items.

M2 Group, owner of Dodo and iPrimus, reported a full - year profit of $ 67.1 million, an improvement of 53 per cent on the previous corresponding period.

Coca - Cola Amatil was another company that had experienced better years, with the share price falling 17 per cent on top of the 17 per cent it fell the previous year, as consumers bought fewer carbonated soft drinks.

Kerry reported first half sales of $ 1.96 billion, an 8.5 per cent increase on the previous year, although this included some $ 73.2 million in revenue from acquisitions.

In Lion's dairy and drinks division, volumes fell 17.4 per cent on top of a 7.3 per cent decline the previous year, dragged down by the sale of Lion's low - margin everyday cheese business in May and the loss of private label milk contracts with Coles and Woolworths in 2014.