Sentences with phrase «for ordinary business»

Silence was obligatory for most of the day, and a series of signs were used to substitute for the ordinary business of life, asking for the butter at table or enquring what the time was.

Not exact matches

The downside to an LLC, however, is that it forces the business owner into higher tax liabilities, as distributions from an LLC are taxed as ordinary income with rates as high as 37 percent, at the federal level, and 13.3 percent at the state level, for a combined federal / state tax of 50.3 percent!

South Korean family - run business empires like Samsung Group have a reputation for low dividend payouts and other governance practices that favour controlling shareholders at the expense of ordinary investors.

For the rest of us «ordinary» entrepreneurs with great, non-tech ideas, I believe that understanding the truths behind many of these myths will help set the proper expectations when seeking funding and make identifying and securing the resources you need to grow your business much easier.

John Green, a distinguished professor of political science at the University of Akron, told Business Insider in an email that «under ordinary circumstances, a candidate like Springer would not be an especially strong prospect for governor.»

The central issue was whether Redstone's stock transfer was actually a gift to his two children (which would require the tax payment) or, instead, an ordinary business transaction made for «full and adequate consideration» (which wouldn't).

Certain of the underwriters and their respective affiliates have performed, and may in the future perform, various investment banking, financial advisory and other services for us, our affiliates and our officers in the ordinary course of business, for which they received and may receive customary fees and reimbursement of expenses.

This effectively makes the transaction an investment in your company and also makes it easier from a tax standpoint for your friend or relative to write off the transaction as an ordinary loss if the business fails.

The Schedule 13G states that the shares were acquired and are held in the ordinary course of business and were not acquired and are not held for the purpose of or with the effect of changing or influencing the control of IBM.

On a business level, if your pet generates income for you, you'll likely be able to fully deduct your «ordinary and necessary» pet expenses.

In the realm of acquiring ownership in individual businesses, it often includes avoiding a trap many investors find tempting: Namely, overlooking what one famed economist has called the «tried and true» companies that rarely change, are highly profitable, and pump out ever - increasing sums of free cash flow for the stockholders despite being so ordinary few give them a second glance.

The SEC Division of Corporation Finance has announced guidance for companies on the application of the ordinary business exception to the shareholder proposal rule (14a - 8 (i)(7)-RRB-:

I made the case for pruning the rule in my article Revitalizing SEC Rule 14a - 8's Ordinary Business Exemption: Preventing Shareholder Micromanagement by Proposal (March 29, 2016).

The substantive ground for exclusion most directly relevant for present purposes is Rule 14a - 8 (i)(7), which permits exclusion of proposals relating to ordinary business operations.

A board acting in this capacity and with the knowledge of the company's business and the implications for a particular proposal on that company's business is well situated to analyze, determine and explain whether a particular issue is sufficiently significant because the matter transcends ordinary business and would be appropriate for a shareholder vote.

The trading market for our ADSs and ordinary shares will depend in part on the research and reports that securities or industry analysts publish about us or our business.

• SEC rules provide an exception to its «ordinary business» exclusion for «significant policy issue» proposals.

An August 2001 Wall Street Journal study found that for every dollar of operating earnings the S&P 500 companies reported in their most recent three - month period, 60 cents wouldn't have been there if ordinary business expenses under GAAP hadn't been excluded 2.

A necessary expense is «one that is helpful and appropriate» for your business, while an ordinary expense is one commonly accepted in your industry.

(Bearing in mind the teller has to keep the «fees» very low for the success of the business model); (ii) Second, are you going to put a limit to number of Master / Ordinary Tellers within a location?

In the deal for the Motorola handset business, Lenovo will pay $ 660 million in cash, $ 750 million in Lenovo ordinary shares, and another $ 1.5 billion in the form of a three - year promissory note, Lenovo and Google said in a joint statement.

However one of the fundamentals of bankruptcy is that viagra substitut ordinary unsecured creditors owed money have to wait in line for the receiver to decide how best to deal with the insolvent business.

For a business, ordinary income that is subject to tax is net income (profit); you get net income by subtracting expenses from income.

The expenditures upon which we seek a report are those that Congress has said to not warrant a deduction as an ordinary and necessary business expense, namely, lobbying, participation in the political system by supporting or opposing candidates for office, and trying to influence the general public or segment thereof as to elections, legislative matters or referenda.

At times when you can walk beside them in the ordinary business of making decisions for the church, it's good for everyone.

On the other hand, Cary writes, «The church, when it's not seduced by consumerist spirituality, is in the business of cultivating ordinary Christians...» Try that for a mission statement.

«Whether it's a business traveler who forgot their watch, a bachelorette looking for an extra ounce of glitz, or a fashion - conscious traveler in need of the extra warmth of a chic pair of winter gloves, we wanted to find a fun way to meet the needs of our guests, while offering them an experience beyond the ordinary,» said Chris Holbrook, Hyatt Union Square New York General Manager.

Just ghastly, rapacious big businesses which cares nothing for values, decency, fairness, ordinary fans and only for more and still more obscene levels of filthy lucre.

Mr. Speaker, this year, we have restored macroeconomic stability, which is protecting the value of money in the pockets of ordinary Ghanaians and giving businesses the predictability space to plan and invest, thereby sowing the seeds for economicgrowth and jobs creation.The broad agenda for next year is to translate the stability achieved into shared growth with aggressive policies aimed at creating moreopportunities for jobs.

I plan to create a dialogue with civic leaders, business professionals, ordinary citizens and political leaders who want to come together to express their views and ideas for the common good.

Ordinary people — families, small businesses and communities — are being forced to pay for a crisis they didn't cause.

Tableau was founded by an Academy Award - winning professor, a brilliant computer scientist at the world's most prestigious university, and a savvy business leader with a passion for data to make databases and spreadsheets understandable to ordinary people.

If you support lower wages for ordinary workers, please, advocate higher business taxes: go ahead, be my guest.

This seems not to be compatible with what we find in our data: high overall popular agreement with the following statements «Government should redistribute incomes» (agree 52 %, disagree 23 %), «Big business takes advantage of ordinary people» (agree 77 %, disagree 8 %), «Ordinary working people do not get their fair share» (agree 72 %, disagree 11 %), «There is one law for the rich and one for the poor» (agree 71 %, disagree 14 %), and «Management will always try to get the better of employees» (agree 68 %, disagreordinary people» (agree 77 %, disagree 8 %), «Ordinary working people do not get their fair share» (agree 72 %, disagree 11 %), «There is one law for the rich and one for the poor» (agree 71 %, disagree 14 %), and «Management will always try to get the better of employees» (agree 68 %, disagreOrdinary working people do not get their fair share» (agree 72 %, disagree 11 %), «There is one law for the rich and one for the poor» (agree 71 %, disagree 14 %), and «Management will always try to get the better of employees» (agree 68 %, disagree 12 %).

We have a broken energy market that isn't working for ordinary families and businesses.

At a time when weak demand in the construction industry is holding back the economic recovery, the government must be more open minded about stimulating private sector demand, particularly for the industry's hundreds of thousands of small businesses, and help ordinary homeowners at the same time.

In the US, Bernie Sanders» rhetoric about the raw deal ordinary workers get from big business, and his appeals for a responsible capitalism, chimes with Labour's approach.

Step into Kingsley's clinic in downtown Minneapolis and you'll find an ordinary looking office — a major selling point for state lawmakers in Minnesota as well as community members concerned with a business that is distributing medical marijuana.

Ahead of the Scotch whisky excise duty debate today, the chief executive of the Scotch Whisky Association argues that an increase in duty on Scotch whisky is bad for public finances, business and ordinary people

Moving around the country should be easier not just for business people, but for the ordinary citizen as well.

The National Insurance increase will hit ordinary workers and business, though of course we welcome the exemption for those earning # 20,000 or below, which is nearly half the workforce.»

«And since the Igbo have virtually infiltrated every nook and cranny of Northern Nigeria where they have been received with open arms as fellow compatriots, we strongly believe that the region is no longer safe and secure in the light of the unfolding threats and the fact that for a long time, the Igbo have gone to extra ordinary lengths to ensure that in their domain in the South East, Northerners and Westerners are as much as possible disenfranchised from owning any businesses whereas in Kano alone, they own not less than 100, 000 shops across all the business districts.

Vince Cable, the business secretary, wants to make it easier for ordinary shareholders to prevent FTSE 100 bosses being awarded huge sums if they are not delivering exceptional results.

Research has shown that UKIP supporters believe big business takes advantage of ordinary people and they strongly agree there is one law for the rich and one for the poor.

«As we take this seat back, it will be because the people in this district are tired of career politicians advancing their careers while they concentrate their power and make it more difficult for small businesses, farmers and veterans to have ordinary lives.»

In the United States in 1992 — a normal year in this country, even as the BSE epidemic approached its peak in Britain — 30,860,000 cattle and 1,353,000 calves were sent to slaughter as a matter of ordinary business, their meat bound for burger chains and restaurants and supermarket meat counters.

John Trinkaus of the Zicklin School of Business in the City University of New York studies ordinary people going about their everyday lives — a rich seam for quirkological research, as you might imagine.

I found my answer in Kiva, a San Francisco — based organization that allows ordinary people, like most of us, to give microloans to women in the Third World for starting small businesses.

(Extra) ordinary #polishboy #engineer staying for few days here doing my business in Ploești.

He's an ordinary rules - following, perfectly average Lego minifigure content to live exactly by the instruction manual provided by President Business (Will Ferrell), aka Lord Business, an uptight CEO who has a hard time balancing his thirst for world domination with micro-managing his own life.