Sentences with phrase «profit corporations as»

The Cradle reserves the right (a) to transfer the business of Adoption Learning Partners into a separate not - for - profit corporation, of which The Cradle would maintain control; and (b) to admit other not - for - profit corporations as members of such new corporation.

Opponents of this view see for - profit corporations as fundamentally different from, for example, houses of worship.

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Corporations have reaped profits off the privatization of prisons and prison labor; some prisoners have gotten paid as little as 12 cents an hour, doing work for corporations, like Victoria's Secret Corporations have reaped profits off the privatization of prisons and prison labor; some prisoners have gotten paid as little as 12 cents an hour, doing work for corporations, like Victoria's Secret corporations, like Victoria's Secret and Walmart.

Named after the 13th constitutional amendment, which abolished slavery except as «punishment for crime,» the doc uses archival footage and expert commentary to make the case that slavery hasn't disappeared from the U.S. — it's evolved into our modern system of mass incarceration, one in which many prisons are run by for - profit companies and prisoners can be paid a pittance to work for corporations.

Profits paid out from the corporation to shareholders as dividends are taxed at a significantly lower rate than personal income and income can be split with family members to further offset taxes.

If we think of the corporation (for - profit or otherwise) as an instrument or technology by means of which people seek to achieve their goals, then it becomes clear that the rights (or «rights») of different kinds of corporate persons depend not on what kind of entity they are, but on the the demonstrable goals of the human beings involved.

For five years, I have been highlighting the real dynamic in China - U.S. trade: the stupendous profits being skimmed by U.S. corporations as a result of moving manufacturing to China.

«I certainly think corporations have the obligation to pursue philanthropy, as well as individuals,» he told PROFIT in 2009.

The Social Entrepreneurship Spectrum: B Corporations To become B Corps, businesses must prove that they care as much about society and the environment as they do about profits.

Fidelis Care, a not - for - profit corporation, offers affordable health insurance coverage to New York residents and has over 1.6 million members in the state as of June 30.

Current Ventures: WordPress.org, a nonprofit that makes open - source blogging software; and Automattic, a for - profit company that manages and customizes the WordPress software for clients such as News Corporation and CNN

After they deduct all business expenses, such as salaries, fringe benefits, and interest payments, C corporations pay a tax on their profits at the corporate level.

After the C corporation deducts all business expenses, such as salaries, fringe benefits, and interest payments, it pays a tax on its profits at the corporate level.

«As an S corporation, anything the partners can do to defer their receipt of profits helps cut taxes and improve their overall cash flow,» emphasizes Jaskol.

Growth in other revenue sources, such as Corporations Tax and Mining Tax, can differ significantly from growth in nominal GDP in any given year, due to the inherent volatility of business profits as well as the use of tax provisions, such as loss carrying.

Pass - through entities: Currently, profits funneled through pass - through entities like S corporations and partnerships are taxed at individual tax rates as high as 39.6 %.

In response to some recent PEF commentary (now in the mainstream media thanks to today's Globe article) on corporations in Canada hoarding cash (after - tax profits greater than new investment), PEF member Eric Pineault weighs in with some more detailed analysis: The great corporate cash stash Eric Pineault As we debate the merits and uses of -LSB-...]

He serves on the board of the Alberta Investment Management Corporation, a Crown corporation of the Province of Alberta, as well as the following not - for - profit organizations: President's Circle of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and The Pacific Council on International Policy and its ChinaCorporation, a Crown corporation of the Province of Alberta, as well as the following not - for - profit organizations: President's Circle of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and The Pacific Council on International Policy and its Chinacorporation of the Province of Alberta, as well as the following not - for - profit organizations: President's Circle of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and The Pacific Council on International Policy and its China Committee.

The increased prison terms for Canadian nationals including officers and directors of Canadian corporations, the elimination of territorial jurisdiction test by explicitly providing for a «nationality» test, the increased risk exposure to CFPOA penalties by adding a books and records provision, and the elimination of exceptions and defences such as those for facilitation payments and businesses not earning profits, all point towards continuing vigorous enforcement by the Canadian government of the CFPOA.

Prior to the recent corporate tax reductions, the effective tax rate on U.S. corporations (actual taxes paid as a fraction of pre-tax profits) was already down to just 20 %.

Further, after the emergency has passed, these communities are often displaced or left out of rebuilding initiatives as developers and corporations use the destruction as an opening for permanent displacement of the people who live there and launch rebuilding initiatives aimed at turning a profit and privatizing public services.

That's because corporations plan to reward shareholders as profits increase, not raise wages for employees or hire more people.

NIPA Corporate Profits: This data is released by the government as part of the National Income and Product Accounts and is based on the tax receipts of all US corporations.

Other revenues, consisting of net profits from enterprise Crown corporations, revenues from consolidated Crown corporations, revenues from the sale of goods and services, returns on investments, net foreign exchange and miscellaneous revenues, were down $ 118 million -LRB--0.8 %), compared to the October 2017 Update of an increase of 5.3 % for the year as a whole.

Other revenues, consisting of net profits from enterprise Crown corporations, revenues from consolidated Crown corporations, revenues from the sale of goods and services, returns on investments, net foreign exchange and miscellaneous revenues, were up $ 45 million (0.2 %), compared to the FES of an increase of 5.3 % for the year as a whole.

One other point I would raise is that I would think many private religous schools would be run as non - profits not as for profit corporations.

Globally, an increasing number of jurisdictions are recognizing hybrid corporations as distinct legal structures — such corporations combine some benefits of both for - profit and non-profit organizations.

In the United States alone, just those companies in the S&P 500 have been hoarding more than $ 1.9 trillion in cash which began in response to jurisdictional tax disparities and global economic uncertainty following the Great Recession, then accelerated over the past decade as big U.S. corporations accumulated profits offshore in lieu of repatriating the funds and taking a tax hit.

It was created by B Lab, a U.S. not - for - profit organization, to enable corporations to define themselves to consumers and investors as socially and environmentally responsible business entities.

«The US government taxes the profits that US corporations make in foreign countries, such as Canada, at a rate of 35 % (minus taxes paid in the country where the profits were made).

This particular cost cutting strategy impacts consumers as lower taxes for a corporation leads to greater profits which can be used to stabilize consumer prices.

Now you are saying, I believe, that you are being taken out of your corporation as an officer, and you are not going to be collecting any profits or salary anymore?

Recall that a common stock is a claim on the excess profits of a corporation, which are ultimately paid out as dividends over time.

First, a corporation would pay that global minimum tax only on profit above a «routine» rate of return on the tangible assets — such as factories — it has overseas.

And as oil, gas and coal corporations pursue their relatively narrow, short - term profit goals, crafting effective responses to the climate crisis becomes more difficult.

These are just some of the factors that have made the economy more productive and allowed American corporations to enjoy record profit margins even as prices stay steady.

If we could count on corporations to think of profits over the longrun, such as fifty years, there would be many opportunities to show that their selfinterest coincided with some of the environmental needs.

They may allow «national planning» of a sort (as in France); they may allow welfare programs; they may allow some progressive taxation; but what they will not allow is an invasion of the autonomy of the private corporation so that economic decisions can be coordinated and made on a basis other than profits.

It lets everyone share the economic value of the land rather than the land itself, just as a corporation, instead of carving up physical portions of itself each year, lets shareholders enjoy portions of the profit.

In short, quite apart from whether these owners are, as persons, more virtuous than CEOs of corporations owned by those who purchase stock simply for profit, they are more likely to act in socially constructive ways.

On March 26, a group of New York — based lawyers headed by Edward D. Fagan, who spearheaded successful suits on behalf of Holocaust survivors against European firms that collaborated with the Nazis in using concentration camp inmates as laborers, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn against FleetBoston Financial, the insurance giant Aetna, and railroad conglomerate CSX Corporation, on the grounds that these corporations are the successors of companies that profited from slavery before the Civil War.

If corporations profit from what people decide to buy, and if they adjust their production and advertising policies according to buyers «preferences and the interests of stockholders, then they also are amenable to what the public refuses to buy or what their stockholders establish as policy, and should be expected to adjust their production and advertising plans to take into account buyer and stockholder preferences.

As Cordell Hull, author of the Revenue Act of 1913, said: «Of course any kind of society or corporation that is not doing business for profit and not acquiring profit would not come within the meaning of the taxing clause.»

To argue that the corporation's defining objective is «enhancing corporate profit and shareholder gain» leads, in his opinion, to unacceptable conclusions: «To say that a corporation's only goal is to make money would be to define the business corporation — for the first time in American or English law as I understand it — as a kind of shark that lives off of the community rather than as an important agency in the construction, maintenance, and transformation of our shared lives.»

And since the news operations are themselves part of vast conglomerations of business power, the management of these corporations, through their selection of staff, their promulgation of policy «guidelines», and their intricate and subtle system of rewards and punishments, oversee and maintain a news environment that fosters not so much facts and understanding, as profit and the prevailing social order.

How excellently did the Somoza government govern Nicaragua; and if not very excellently, was it perhaps not really engaged in the practice of «government» at all, but rather in the practice of commerce and trade, treating the nation as a single privately owned corporation for the personal profit of the Somoza family and its associates?).

Huge cargo aircraft can now fly virtually an entire factory halfway across the globe, while decisions as to how fast that new factory assembly line must operate, what its workers should be paid and what profit is to be made are based on data from the corporation's global computers back in Connecticut or New York.

This was partly because of its power as an ideology and partly because of the increasing control of the political order by those who would profit from this shift, the transnational corporations.

And if only «religious groups» are given protection, we are a long way from full, robust protection for religious conscience, which belongs to everyone who can be a moral agent: individuals, groups, churches, ministries, nonprofit - sector corporations, and for - profit corporations too (as in the case of Hobby Lobby in the HHS mandate controversy).

Global capitalism's explosive growth has brought unimaginable wealth to some parts of the world, while displacing local economies and emaciating traditional forms of life as transnational corporations devour resources in search of greater and greater profits.