Sentences with phrase «rate than businesses»

This means they'll typically have a higher rate than businesses that are claim - free.

With a slightly higher risk for tornadoes and a high rate of robberies and thefts, Reynoldsburg business owners may experience higher business property insurance rates than businesses in other cities.

Not exact matches

Those business owners have long complained that the disparity is unfair, especially in view of the fact that many multinationals pay much less than the 35 percent statutory corporate tax rate by exploiting abundant loopholes and tax breaks available to large, global corporations.

The Swedish tax structure is favorable to businesses, especially when compared with that of China and the U.S. Sweden has a corporate tax rate of 22 percent — far higher than, say, Ireland's 12.5 percent, but lower than the United States» high - end rate of 35 percent.

Editor's note: People over 50 are among the country's most active entrepreneurs, starting businesses at rates higher than their young counterparts.

«PRN's business has lower growth rate and lower margin than the rest of UBM's business.

Helped also by higher interest rate levels after three rate hikes by the Federal Reserve, the core lending business more than offset a weaker quarter for its market division.

Programs that provide skills development, mentoring and clear pathways to success from cradle to college and career, can generate benefits that are more than three times their costs, exceeding the rates of return seen in many private sector business investments.

These are the best ratings in more than 10 years, according to the National Federation of Independent Businesses.

The report also points out that Dreamers start businesses at more than twice the rate of the general population, in large part because they are used to making ends meet without help from the government.

A small fraction of those business owners pay the top individual tax rate of 39.6 percent, higher than the current top corporate income tax rate of 35 percent.

Not only are the majority of small businesses (83 percent of which are pass - through entities) subject to higher tax rates than their larger C - Corporation counterparts, under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, any modest benefit they reap is scheduled to go away after 2025, while corporations will retain their steep tax cuts.

-- Scott and Missy Tannen, founders of Boll & Branch, a New York - based company with a line of accessibly priced luxury bed linens that launched in January 2014 with first - year revenue topping $ 2 million and more than a $ 10 million run rate in its second year in business.

In a recent survey, more than a fifth of small business owners cited rising interest rates as a top challenge for their business.

Respond professionally to every review — businesses that respond to every review have an 86 percent higher rating than those that don't.

American Express» 2017 State of Women - Owned Businesses Report estimates that from 1997 to 2017, the number of women - owned firms increased by a rate of roughly more than 2.5 times the national average (114 percent vs. 44 percent).

What's more, while 95 percent of small businesses are organized as pass - throughs (based on 2014 Treasury Dept. data) rather than traditional C - corporations, the CNBC / SurveyMonkey Small Business Survey found the most support (68 percent) for the tax plan among C - corps — which would receive the flat corporate tax - rate reduction to 20 percent.

While that's more than the $ 196 billion Chinese business travelers spent last year, business - travel spending in China grew 13.2 percent — three times the 4.4 percent growth rate in the U.S.. By 2016, Chinese business travelers are expected to spend more than those from the U.S., according to the report.

The Non-Manufacturing Business Activity Index increased 6.5 percentage points to 63.5 percent, reflecting growth for the 13th consecutive month at a faster rate than in November.

It's also greater than the 3.4 percent rate of employment growth measure in a comparison group of small, non-clustered businesses based on Dun & Bradstreet data.

Rates of employment and revenue growth were higher in the program's business «clusters» than in comparable numbers of unaffiliated businesses, according to analysis of the SBA's two - year pilot Regional Cluster Initiative.

'' Promoting women's entrepreneurship requires more than increasing the rate in which women start businesses,» said Donna Kelley, a professor of entrepreneurship at Babson, in a release.

«More than anything, people are going to jump off the fence because of interest rates picking up,» Jason Cassity, a Zillow premier agent in San Diego, told Business Insider.

With less than half of companies rating their customer experience as exceptional yet 89 percent saying that they plan to compete primarily on the basis of customer experience by 2016, according to a recent Gartner report, businesses certainly have a lot of work to do.

Another option: The Intelligent Office, a national franchise based in Boulder, Colorado, provides small - business owners with a prestigious address for meetings, as well as phone - answering and mail services, all for about $ 275 a month — far less than the rate for commercial space.

People over 50 with more money, more experience, and fewer concerns about their children's futures are starting businesses at rates higher than almost any other demographic.

The four critical factors are: (a) businesses with recurring revenue bases — like a renewable subscription — are far better than ones dependent on constantly securing new customers; renewals are much easier and less expensive to secure than new sales; (b) customer retention is absolutely critical — all customers are very costly to acquire and very easy to lose in a world of almost infinite choices; (c) businesses based on products that require constant replacement or renewal (the «razor blade» model) are much more attractive than durable goods businesses (like selling refrigerators) where the products have very long repurchase or replacement life cycles and where the market could even fairly quickly reach saturation points; and (d) businesses that offer products or services that had a predictably high rate of obsolescence were much more attractive than those where the products had long, useful lives.

Women are prequalified based on their character, credit rating, and ability to repay the loan from future business earnings, rather than on collateral.

This one - two punch seems unfair to small businesses, given that a filer's rate could vary more than 10 percent depending on what kind of corporate structure he or she has chosen.

More credit unions are offering business loans, and their interest rates and fees are often lower than at commercial banks.

Although the lack of jurisdiction over Bitcoin and its links to money laundering and illicit marketplaces have raised more than a few eyebrows, the currency offers a simple way for legitimate businesses such as small retailers and professional service providers to accept payments for international sales without facing onerous credit card fees or exchange - rate surcharges.

Even in its best years, its acceptance rate — often hovering in the 70 % to 80 % range — was much higher than the major business schools, which accept less than 20 % of their applicants.

These government - backed small - business loans have significantly lower rates than many other lenders offer.

For a comparison, the average rate on business loans from relatives and friends is currently at 7.6 percent, according to CircleLending's Business Private Loan Index, whereas the rate was more than 12 percent at Accion and more than 20 percent at Prosper for individuals with poorbusiness loans from relatives and friends is currently at 7.6 percent, according to CircleLending's Business Private Loan Index, whereas the rate was more than 12 percent at Accion and more than 20 percent at Prosper for individuals with poorBusiness Private Loan Index, whereas the rate was more than 12 percent at Accion and more than 20 percent at Prosper for individuals with poor credit.

If you can get a business rate, make sure it's actually cheaper than your residential rate.

Your friends and business associates might give you a rate that is slightly higher than they are earning in their high - yield savings account.

From 1996 to 2011, the business startup rate of immigrants increased by more than 50 percent, while the native - born startup rate declined by 10 percent, to a 30 - year low.

On average, private business loans from relatives and friends have interest rates 2 to 3 percent lower than market rates and 1 to 2 percent higher than high - yield savings rates.

For some business owners, flexibility of repayment is more important than getting a slightly lower rate.

With a three - year growth rate of more than 4,000 percent, this data collection company, which works with businesses and law firms, reeled in more than $ 4 million in revenue in 2014.

«The number of established small businesses that are not micro-enterprises used to increase about the same rate or more than micro-enterprises in the past decades,» Morelix says.

Interviewing more than one broker, paying attention to success rates and fees, and determining how committed a broker is to selling your business are just three ways to determine whether or not you've found a reliable broker.

What Blackburn saw in Cooper was a commitment to selling businesses and a better than average success rate.

Knowing that if a compromise isn't reached between Speaker Boehner and President Obama, the result is a likely recession, should small - business groups back Boehner's insistence that the Bush tax cuts be preserved for everyone or should they acquiesce to the President's call for higher tax rates on people earning more than $ 200,000 a year?

The group said records for 2012 - 2013 show 224 cases where businesses in Alberta paid foreign workers less than the prevailing wage rate.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

There seems to be an unwritten code of entrepreneurship that suggests every available penny be invested in building and expanding your business, so the emergency savings rate for business owners could be even worse than that of the general public.

They were surprised not only that financing was geared to established businesses rather than startups, but also that the state's interest rates rivaled what banks offered at the time.

Top Dog Tips and Breeding Business both recommend the feeder and it has more than 1,600 reviews on Amazon with a solid 4.3 - star rating.

Women earn more higher - education degrees than men and start new businesses at a faster rate.