Sentences with phrase «to reduce one's profits»

Higher steel and aluminum prices would also reduce profit margins for machinery manufacturers.
Used correctly rewards cards can give away a lot of value, which reduces the profit for the credit card company.
The net effect is that a revenue tax is more likely to increase the price paid to the consumer than it is to reduce the profits of the corporation.
So you can deduct the depreciation of the asset from your business's income, which would then get passed on to your personal taxes (reducing the profit from your business).
The numbers are eye - opening: a 10 % discount reduces profit by 30 %, which in turn requires 40 % more hours at the discounted rate to maintain the original profit.
While industry analysts have sharply reduced their profit expectations for the firm over the next 12 months, they still think it will be profitable.
Author - applied discounts reduce profits and therefore reduce author revenue.
It also provides for losses to be carried forward for seven years, after which only that amount which reduces the profit in that year to one half of its value can be allowed.
So when puppy mills have to pay more money for breeding stock, it directly reduces their profits.
The company will show profit or loss at the end of the year (those payments to you aren't expenses and don't reduce your profit).
Firms are assigning surprisingly high valuations to companies they are acquiring, even though the lofty prices will in all likelihood reduce profits for their investors.
Reducing oil dependence reduces profits and strains some international relations.
Will companies and employees who have grown accustomed to tax - free status willingly accept reduced profit margins and standards of living?
If you charge per - volume, that means sales of later volumes will keep dropping, thus reducing the profit.
The only thing a publisher has to offer at that point is a marketing machine, in exchange for a significantly reduced profit per sale on the part of the author.
Do we have to mention losses after reducing profits?
In any case, you are reducing the profit available when you sell your home.
For example, attrition, which has been accepted as a way of doing business, greatly reduces profits.
Lost productivity and lost billable hours due to attrition reduces profits.
The low volatility of the traditional assets reduce their profits and force them to look for something more energetic and promising.
This will reduce the profits of the traditional payday lenders, and it may force some of them out of business.
The extra money has to come from somewhere, whether lowering other costs, raising prices, or reducing profit expectations.
In addition, they will have more of it to sell at sale time, reducing their profit margin.
It would, however, reduce profits for all Tablet makers.
Self - publishing is not usually suitable for commercial distribution as increased printing costs mean reduced profit margins and the distributors take 60 — 65 % of the RRP (including the bookseller's discount).
If you can not raise prices, and if wage pressures are fairly intense because of the kind of tight labor market we had in the 1990s, the only way to fund the wage increases without reducing profits is to improve labor productivity.
The cut would further reduce the profit received from a Nook Color by Barnes & Noble.
«This impacts the authors, who can only sell long - format work, or they must bundle their shorter works into one volume,» he says, «typically reducing the profit they could have made.
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Shortly before his inauguration, The Washington Post noted several additional ways employees in Trump's executive branch could do so: Trademark disputes, for instance, will be adjudicated by judges appointed by his Commerce secretary, while the EPA could roll back environmental regulations that reduce profits at his golf courses.
You can go short but also buy a call at a much higher price, thereby limiting your exposure, a strategy called a «straddle», but you also reduce your profit if you guessed right.
Airlines shifted some capacity to places like Mexico, which forced operators like Transat to lower prices to compete, thereby reducing their profits, he said.
If I take Keystone XL out of the mix, in my toy model, I haven't impacted the cost of the marginal barrel of oil sands because I haven't changed the cost of a barrel shipped by rail, I've simply reduced the profit on the barrels which would be shipped via KXL by forcing them to be shipped to market in a more expensive way.
Grocery wholesaler Metcash has reduced its profit guidance ahead of a strategy update on Friday, warning that earnings per share for the full year are now expected to fall 13 per cent to 15 per cent.
Closer to home, the Supermarket Code of Conduct is stalled in negotiation over the two giant retailers baulking over reducing their profit - making private labels.
In this context, oil theft, vandalism, seizures and riots reduce profit from African oil.
The investor arbitration tribunals allow investors to challenge anyone who reduces their profits, even if the measures which prompted the lawsuit — such as those of the Troika — came from outside government being sued.
Amazon has also forced publishers to accept its pricing of e-books at $ 9.99 — which has drastically reduced their profit margins and has the additional benefit for Amazon of weakening sales of the traditional trade paperback, the format publishers have counted on as a dependable earner.
So the increased competition would just reduce profits.
In the tumultuous short - term, hedging could reduce profits since the market is shaky, but I think as it pans out over the medium term, the Fed's actions will ultimately help the mREIT market, not hurt it.
The U.S. investment chapter proposal would allow foreign corporations to sue governments over laws and policies that corporations allege reduce their profits.
Power companies traditionally charge more during the day, when offices are full and manufacturing plants are in full swing, so the glut of daytime solar power reduces their profit.
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