Sentences with phrase «higher incentive for»

So, I believe the real reason for the price cut is because Apple is planning to launch the 32 GB model and will phase out the 8 GB model and T - Mobile is simply bundled as a promotion to cleanup the stock of 8 GB iPhones with a higher incentive for those going for a costlier tariff.

Now, tick control may have an even higher incentive for you.

Not exact matches

SHARE options are a common part of high - level remuneration packages intended to be powerful incentives for company executives - but they can quickly go «underwater» when markets tumble.

Big incentives in Perth's office leasing market are resulting in world - class, high - tech fit - outs for tenants willing to take the plunge and move buildings.

For example, corporate dividends payable to minor children are already taxed at the highest marginal rate — essentially removing the incentive to split income.

One important change to the salary basis test: employers (for the first time) may use non-discretionary bonuses and incentive payments (including commissions) to satisfy up to 10 percent of the substantially - higher minimum salary.

As interest rates for these seemingly safer investments increase, they become more attractive to investors, and as such, the incentive for investors to plow funds into high - risk opportunities decreases.

This gives workers an added incentive to achieve higher results for the company.

«We believe it critical for a listing exchange to ensure a high - quality displayed quote to reduce the cost of capital and share price volatility for its issuers, and in the absence of broader market structure reform, exchange - paid quoting incentives are a necessary mechanism in a highly fragmented US marketplace to support liquidity for listed companies,» Cunningham said in a letter to clients emailed to Business Insider.

You could give your best employees «golden handcuffs» by paying above market rates and providing incentives for them to be the highest paid employees in their field.

In place of schedules, you provide economic incentives for working during peak - demand periods in high - traffic areas.

Following successful models like the X-Prize, private - and public - sector leaders should work together to set up a high - profile Canada Prize that offers incentives for entrepreneurs and researchers to solve critical problems with commercial and public benefits, like cheap desalination units or better distribution of electricity to villages.

Altech said it had also applied for the project to be given «pioneer status - high technology», a Malaysian investment incentive classification which delivers tax exemption on statutory income for the first five years following the start of commercial production from the plant.

If they had adopted an even more restrictive approach to investment, prices would have risen higher, providing an even sharper incentive for other suppliers to fill the gap, most likely U.S. shale producers.

Higher corporate taxes produce an incentive for multinational firms to shift taxable activities away from high - tax jurisdictions.

However, advocates of reforming executive pay — by linking it with performance and reducing incentives for risk - taking — argue the pay ceilings are so high they lack teeth.

prices for milk and other dairy products in Canada are among the highest in the world (incentives to control costs are weak when prices are indexed to costs)

As Nitasha Tiku and I discovered in our reporting, Malaysia presents other opportunities for entrepreneurs: strong high - tech and telecom sectors, as well as lots of incentives for foreign companies.

As I've written before, raising prices during a disaster isn't always unethical — sometimes higher prices provide an incentive for others to rush to send resources to disaster - stricken areas, and sometimes higher prices give citizens an incentive to avoid overusing scarce resources.

To fully realize the economic benefits of having more women in the labor force, Japan needs to provide incentives for women to seek out more full - time work in high growth areas, he said.

Benefits — Each family / real estate investor keeps average $ 600 / mo for 2 yrs, real estate in all major metropolitans will have a traded price, increase buying power of low income high credit citizens, stimulate real estate investment by making it easier for investors to cash flow a rental property, reduce home inventory, the increase home values and liquidity provides incentive to put the $ X trillion in capital currently on the sidelines back to work and mortgage prepayments will increase capital availability.

Expectations are especially high for electric vehicle (EV) production and sales, as the Chinese government sweetened the incentive for families to trade in their gas - powered automobile for one that runs on a battery - powered electric motor.

In terms of bang per buck, or increased giving per dollar of revenue cost, it ranks very high, since the incentive for the most part only loses revenues when there are additional gifts.

The Rockefeller Institute of Government, which released a new state revenue report on Monday, said that «The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), enacted in late December 2017, created strong incentives for some high - income taxpayers to act fast and prepay their state and local income and property taxes to take advantage of the expiring tax breaks, namely the state and local tax (SALT) deduction, which is capped at $ 10,000 per year as of January 1, 2018.»

These benefits would (i) largely go to developers and contractors for infrastructure projects like new pipelines that would happen even without new incentives and so be highly regressive; (ii) raise costs by failing to reach the tax - free pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and international investors who are the most plausible sources of incremental infrastructure finance; (iii) not encourage at all the highest return maintenance projects like fixing potholes that do not yield a pecuniary return for investors; and (iv) by offering credits at an unprecedented 82 percent rate, invite all kinds of tax shelter abuse.

While the market is interpreting the tax plan as a steepener for the Treasury curve, fundamentally, it should be positive for the credit securities because of the anticipated higher after - tax earnings and supply constraints due to a reduced incentive to leverage.

If you hold your shares in street name, it is critical that you cast your vote if you want it to count in the election of directors, the vote to approve the amendment to our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, the vote to approve the amendment and restatement of our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan, the advisory vote to approve named executive officer compensation, and the stockholder proposals requesting: (i) the elimination of supermajority voting requirements, (ii) the adoption of a policy to consider employee pay ranges when setting CEO compensation, and (iii) a report on Salesforce's criteria for investing in, operating in and withdrawing from high - risk regions (Proposals 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8 in this Proxy Statement).

For each proxy statement position, this compensation data was ranked from highest to lowest by the combined total amount of annual cash plus the annualized value of long - term incentive awards.

As rates creep higher overseas in response to the gradual removal of policy accommodation in Europe and Asia, foreign buyers will have less incentive to hunt for yield in U.S. bonds.

The HRC has reaffirmed the policy of deferring a portion of annual incentive compensation for the Company's highest earners in the form of long - term awards whose vesting terms take into account longer risk - emergence periods, and has overseen the implementation of standard performance objectives for the Company's control function staff to further prevent or discourage excessive risk - taking.

This performance was reflected in our NEOs» cash incentive awards, which, consistent with our pay - for - performance philosophy, paid out at higher levels for fiscal 2013 than for fiscal 2012:

Various reasons have been suggested for this, including the persistence, until recently, of relatively high rates of inflation in Australia, which reduced the incentive to issue and hold longer - term securities.

These benefits would (i) largely go to developers and contractors for infrastructure projects like new pipelines that would happen even without new incentives and so be highly regressive; (ii) raise costs by failing to reach the tax - free pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and international investors that are the most plausible sources of incremental infrastructure finance; (iii) not encourage at all the highest return maintenance projects like fixing potholes that do not yield a pecuniary return for investors; and (iv) by offering credits at an unprecedented 82 per cent rate, invite all kinds of tax - shelter abuse.

Arnuk and Saluzzi argue that the evolution of exchanges from not - for - profit «quasi utilities» to for - profit businesses has distorted incentives so that exchanges are now beholden to high - frequency traders, who make up a large share of their business.

Caps on total itemized deductions could also reduce charitable giving because the caps reduce, and in many cases remove, incentives for high - income taxpayers to give.

The higher prices act as an incentive to boost supply, and companies act by, for example, investing in new capacity and finding methods to increase efficiency.

Finally, the tradeoff for the lower - than - expected corporate rate (21 % vs. 25 % est.) appears to be more mixed benefits on the personal side and modifications to some key corporate incentives from the way they were originally envisioned (i.e., a more limited expensing provision, restrictions on interest deductibility & loss carryforwards, higher repatriation rates & stronger international tax provisions).

The incentives promised to Amazon are now standard practice in America, where states, desperate for high - paying jobs, bend over backwards to accommodate business.

Living Goods began, in 2008, as a partnership with BRAC to operate a network of CHPs in Uganda, and in 2009 launched a directly - managed network of CHPs using the same model.42 Living Goods has provided both technical and financial support, totaling over $ 2 million, to BRAC for the CHP program.43 BRAC has 128 branches with active CHPs in Uganda, but only 24 of these branches currently receive significant funding from Living Goods and have additional features, such as incentive payments for CHPs and a higher number of CHPs per branch.44

The current regulatory environment, they say, also allows fund sponsors and advisory firms «to create incentives for their advisors to recommend excessive churning (repeated buying and selling) of retirement assets and to steer savers into higher cost products with financial payoffs for the advisor.»

In addition, the HRC recently expanded the use of Performance Share awards to a broader group of management, and reaffirmed the Company's directive to provide a portion of annual incentive compensation in long - term awards for the Company's highest earners and to create standard performance objectives for the Company's control function staff, to further provide safeguards that either prevent or discourage excessive risk - taking.

While it is sensible economics to interpret the positive link of employee stock ownership and profit sharing to company performance as reflecting worker responses to the incentives in the plans, it is possible that the positive relation comes from a very different causal link, in which higher - productivity companies introduce profit sharing or employee stock ownership plans for whatever reason.

Today the White House announced major steps to improve incentives for future innovation in high tech patents, a key driver of economic growth and good paying American jobs.

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The employer may have a strong incentive to use the technology for higher profit, and the employees are usually in too weak a position to say no,» he said.

The group incentive nature of employee stock ownership and profit sharing makes this an effective way to create and reinforce a sense of common purpose, and to encourage higher commitment and productivity.23 It is also the case with ESOPs that the new ownership might not be viewed by the firm in the same way as other added compensation because the ownership is financed through loans to buy new capital as company stock, with Federal tax incentives, and the shares are not paid as normal wages and benefits out of company budget reserved for this purpose.

Although it's true that financial repression has traditionally been practiced using the stick of high mandatory reserve requirements, whereas the Fed has instead been employing carrots in the shape of ON - RRP and IOER interest incentives, the ultimate result — more credit for the government, and less for everyone else — is the same.

The Institute for College Access and Success recommends eliminating higher education tax provisions as well, instead funneling the money into Pell Grants and incentive funds.

Record high prices in Asia have had several impacts, including providing economic incentive to bring on additional supply, maintaining a continued reason to burn much cheaper coal despite the negative environmental consequences and a search by consuming nations for secure supply options.

Meanwhile, a system ensuring that state - of - the - art controls on emissions do not translate into a fatal competitive disadvantage would enable Canada to throw all its energies at providing incentives for the high - quality «green jobs» that need to be in place for the next generation.