Sentences with phrase «percent national sales»

Cain's tax plan would mean a flat nine percent income tax, a nine percent corporate tax and nine percent national sales tax.

Flake does nod in the direction of a grand bargain that combines entitlement cuts with tax increases, but he doesn't mention that he was a longtime supporter of replacing the federal tax code with a 23 - percent national sales tax.

Perhaps the biggest red flag for businesses is the 9 percent national sales tax Cain is proposing.

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Retail sales in Germany came in lower - than - expected in August, down by 0.4 percent on the month, the national statistics office said.

The National Retail Federation estimates that 20 to 40 percent of sales happen within the last two months of the year.

The President boosted the number of federal regulations affecting small businesses by 13 percent during his first term in office, leading governmental regulation and red tape to overtake sales, taxes and the cost / availability of insurance as small business's biggest problem, respondents to the National Federation of Independent Business small business survey explain.

The National Retail Federation said the November result supported its expectation for an overall 4.1 percent jump in holiday season sales - confirming its conclusion that the poor Black Friday showing was a result of a shift in shopping patterns rather than a sign of weakness.

FBI background checks, which give an indication of the state of U.S. gun sales, rose 1.1 percent in May from the prior year, according to adjusted data from the National Shooting Sports Foundation.

During the holidays, your customers are as primed to spend as they'll ever be, with retailers reaping up to 40 percent of their annual sales from November through December, according to the National Retail Federation.

Sales of vacation homes slumped nearly 22 percent in 2016 to the lowest level in three years, even as overall home sales hit their highest level in a decade, according to a new report from the National Association of Realtors (Sales of vacation homes slumped nearly 22 percent in 2016 to the lowest level in three years, even as overall home sales hit their highest level in a decade, according to a new report from the National Association of Realtors (sales hit their highest level in a decade, according to a new report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR).

The National Retail Federation cut its full - year sales growth expectations Wednesday from 4.1 percent to 3.5 percent, due to what NRF president and CEO Matthew Shay deemed «lackluster growth in our economy.»

A recent survey by the National Association for Business Economics showed that 18 percent of businesses expect a negative impact from declining oil prices — reflecting the percentage of industries that directly benefit from oil and natural gas sales.

The supply of starter homes is so lean that March sales were down in that sector over 21 percent compared with a year ago, according to the National Association of Realtors.

Holiday retail sales are expected to increase as much as 4 percent, reaching up to $ 682 billion, according to the National Retail Federation.

In 2012, sales recorded their first significant increase since the recession, rising an estimated 10 percent, according to the National Marine Manufacturers Association.

Holiday retail sales in November and December — excluding automobiles, gasoline and restaurants — are expected to increase as much as 4 percent this year, reaching up to $ 682 billion, according to the National Retail Federation, the industry's trade group.

Based on rates alone, a jump from 4 percent to 5 percent could cause the nations home sales volume to drop by 300,000, said National Association of Realtors economist Lawrence Yun.

In fact, the National Retail Federation expects holiday sales to increase by only 3.7 percent, which is down from last year's 4.1 percent growth.

Here at the National Retail Federation, we are forecasting that holiday retail sales will grow 3.6 percent this year over last year.

The National Retail Federation announced today it expects sales in November and December (excluding autos, gas and restaurant sales) to increase a solid 3.7 percent to $ 630.5 billion — significantly higher than the 10 - year average of 2.5 percent.

An index of so - called pending home sales, which represent closings one to two months from now, fell 0.8 percent compared with June, according to the National Association of Realtors.

Pending home sales had last slipped 0.8 percent in March, the National Association of Realtors reported last month.

In the housing market, meanwhile, millennials made up 32 percent of sales in 2014, up 4 percentage points from two years earlier — making them the largest segment of buyers, according to the National Association of Realtors.

Despite a difficult year for variable annuity sales, Jackson National pretax 2017 operating income rose 3 percent to a record $ 2.9 billion over 2016, the company reported Wednesday.

Another strong sign is that average sales prices and rents were up in 1997 — a 14.3 percent rise in average sales price and a 9.6 percent rise in average rent, according to the National Real Estate Index, published by CB Richard Ellis in association with E&Y Kenneth Leventhal Real Estate Group.

Beyond the actual gas project and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese oil and gas rig producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technology.

Sales of homes priced under $ 100,000 fell more than 20 percent in March, according to the National Association of Realtors, not because there wasn't demand, but because there was not enough supply.

Sales rose 4 percent in September in Houston from the prior year, after plummeting nearly 24 percent in August, according to the National Association of Realtors.

Today, sales expectations are much rosier according to Raddon's Small Business National Research: 59 percent of small businesses expect an increase in sales, while only 6 percent expect a decline.

Existing home sales declined 2.6 percent from February to a 4.48 million seasonally adjusted annual rate, but were 5.2 percent above the March 20 - 11 level, according to the National Association of Realtors.

The National Association of Realtors said Wednesday that its seasonally adjusted pending home sales index rose 1.3 percent in July to 111.3, the highest reading since April.

The National Association of Realtors reported that existing home sales slumped 4.8 percent in January.

Monday's existing home sales report from the National Association of Realtors showed a year - over-year decline of 1.2 percent with existing sales posting at a seasonally adjusted rate of 5.60 million units in March...

At the same time, existing - home sales dropped a substantial 7.1 percent in February, according to the National Association of Realtors.

With the national average for a gallon of gas just above $ 2 a gallon, it's not surprising that Jeep sales in November jumped 20 percent, making it the brand's 26th - consecutive month of year - over-year sales gains.

Now it expects those sales at longstanding restaurants to rise 6.5 percent this year, buoyed by price increases it will implement in the fourth quarter and September's national introduction of queso.

Colombia is one of Latin America's fastest growing agricultural, food and beverage product exporters with annual sales growing by almost 30 percent, according to DANE — The National Department of Administrative Statistics in Colombia.

Only 42 percent of operators expect to have higher sales in the next 6 months, according to the National Restaurant Association's June Restaurant Performance Index.

As part of the popular Maryland - based chain's Funds for Friends program, individual restaurants team up with local organizations or local branches of national organizations, select a specific benefit date and donate 10 percent of that day's total sales to the organization in exchange for the organization having encouraged members, friends company profile and family to patronize the location on that date.

For its part, the National Restaurant Association stands by its initial projection of 1.5 percent industry sales growth in real terms for 2015.

national coffee brands — value: the beans are sourced from different locations, and are mixed, processed, roasted, and ground on a large scale; 28.3 percent of OCS sales

According to the American Lung Association, a 2015 report from the National Academy of Medicine found that raising the age of sale for tobacco products to at least 21 years old would reduce smoking by 25 percent among 15 - 17 year - olds and by 15 percent among those 18 - 20 years old.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo today announced the growth of agricultural sales in New York outpaced the national average, with cash receipts up 36 percent across the state and only 32 percent nationally.

• An increase in SSRI sales by one pill per capita per year is associated with a 5 percent drop in suicides nation wide, according to 2007 working paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Twenty percent of the proceeds from the net sales from this collection benefit the National Breast Cancer Foundation.

Chrysler Corp. has sold its 50 percent ownership stake in Alfa Romeo Distributors of North America, an Orlando company that acts as the national distributor for the Italian automaker.The decision was a result of Alfa Romeo's sluggish sales performance in United States, where a recession has weakened consumer confidence.That poor performance prompted Alfa Romeo to lay off 23 employees Friday from the Orlando distributorship, a company spokesman said Tuesday.

The number of Tiguans buzzing San Francisco had us surprised at the national Tiguan sales charts; according to Automotive News, the Tiguan sold fewer than 18,000 units in the first eight months of 2014, and that rate is off about 15 percent from the year before.

Women represent 6 percent of Ford Motor Co.'s dealership sales force, compared with 8 percent for the industry, according to the National Automobile Dealers Association.

The National Automobile Dealers Association says a predicted 17.1 million new car and truck sales in 2017 would favour light - truck sales, for an expected 60 percent of the market, up from 50 percent in 2013.

Last February, nationwide sales of premium unleaded gasoline accounted for 26.4 percent of the gasoline sold, compared with 22.9 percent in June 1987 and 19.5 percent in June 1986, according to the Lundberg Letter, a national newsletter.