Sentences with word «writeoff»

«In their infinite wisdom, based on this headline, we'll probably see Congress enact some sort of silly legislation to grab a headline, just like preventing lotto winners from collecting unemployment or eliminating tax writeoffs for corporate jets...»

Maybe if you have a massive income that you need tax writeoffs for, or something along the lines of that, then perhaps you might want to set a deadline to buy something within the next 90 days.

All of the above ended with excessive amounts of writeoffs of bank assets, profit declines and stock price collapses.

Citigroup, UBS, and Merrill Lynch have all taken writeoffs in the $ 40 billion range; HSBC has written off nearly $ 20 billion, and Royal Bank of Scotland, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley hover around $ 15 billion each.

Foreigners provided a large portion of the capital that fueled the runup in asset prices, so they will undoubtedly bear a good portion of the subsequent losses through dollar depreciation and writeoffs in the value of their U.S. financial assets.

In short, I expect that we are in the process of what might be called a «writeoff recession,» where significant amounts of asset value and perceived wealth will ultimately be written off.

Absent a larger rally in CMBS, there will be significant writeoffs at the banks eventually.

@footnoted... and maybe adjs for a year, but large writeoffs mean that prior earnings were overstated; testifies to bad mgmt quality $ $ Aug 08, 2012

High - tech companies make products with short life cycles, meaning that any excess inventory is an expensive writeoff, she says.

Another provision from the same law allows 100 percent writeoffs of up to $ 250,000 of qualified real property such as leasehold improvements and some restaurant and retail improvements.

These depreciation writeoffs occur at rising prices each time a property is sold at a capital gain (most of which reflects the land's rising site value).

(It's worth noting that Canada offers companies fewer writeoffs than are available south of the border.

Manufacturers would gain more per dollar devoted to accelerated writeoffs for manufacturing capital than to across - the - board rate reductions.

This reaction to big bonuses in firms that are taking huge writeoffs, losing big money and requiring massive government bailouts was predictable.

The lowering of the tax code for businesses does make it less painful to show profit however, the reductions in business writeoffs may make teams a little less predictable.

It has been successful with its Xbox gaming and entertainment console, and has mae inroads in cloud computing and business services, but its efforts to get into the tablet market with its own branded Surface have flopped, resulting in an embarrassing writeoff of $ 900 million.

Revenue would be slightly lower at $ 5.3 billion to $ 5.6 billion, and the combination of the PlayBook writeoff and a $ 50 million hit from the nearly four - day BlackBerry outage would drop its net profit to about $ 1.20 to $ 1.40 per share.

Many banks have weak capital positions caused in part by sub-prime-related writeoffs.

Businesses take inventory writeoffs as an operating expense, not a capital loss.

For AIG, this puts a lot of its troubles behind it, after the upcoming writeoff (from the WSJ article):

Either there is an underestimate that leads to losing the bid, or an overestimate that leads to overpaying, and an eventual writeoff of part of the investment.

Second, as mortgage foreclosures and writeoffs predictably increase in the coming quarters, we are likely to observe a fresh demand for Treasury bonds as a safe - haven because of their lack of default risk.

* The old writeoff times were age based while the new ones are duration based but for a student graduating at the normal age the old times were much longer.

The timeshare business is the «bad» business; low margin, low return on capital and shrinking since at least 2006 with significant writeoffs over the past several years.

If yes, proof that the «green revolution» is a blatant re-hash of the failed «wind - power» tax writeoff schemes of the 1970's -80's.

Three such breaks alone — a less rigid minimum tax, new writeoffs for investors in real estate and more generous deductions for equipment purchases by small businesses — would cost the Government about $ 20 billion in lost revenue over five years, Mr. Bradley said.

There are so many potential writeoffs — and opportunities to try to write off something that you shouldn't — and an expert can help you navigate this labyrinth so you make the most of your deductions without running afoul of the IRS.

I received a small (very small) tax writeoff for this.

Also, investment banks are still delevering and taking writeoffs.

At that point, we can expect a major acceleration in writeoffs of lower tranche mortgage debt.

A temporary expansion of the medical - expense deduction — coupled with ever - increasing health costs — could translate into a writeoff, even if you haven't been able to use it in the past.

Even if this break hasn't been available to you in the past, a temporary expansion of the medical - expense deduction — coupled with ever - increasing health care costs — could translate into a writeoff.

The flop of the Surface RT led Microsoft to take a $ 900 million writeoff.

A Writeoff Recession and a Dollar Crisis John P. Hussman, Ph.D..

A number of foreign banks have already experienced large losses and writeoffs.

Bottom Line: We're honestly shocked that Sony is still threatening to inflict this on a wide - release theatrical audience, but hey, it's their tax writeoff, not ours.

Though these numbers are relatively small and the writeoff announced today is undeniably big, RIM has chosen to look on the bright side and intends to treat the discounted sell - off of the PlayBook as a constructive exercise that gives the PlayBook OS a wider audience and firmer foothold.

If that writeoff wipes out most of the company's shareholders» equity, and / or most of a year's earnings, it can devastate the value stock pick's share price.

so my question is less about emergency fund balances as i'm pretty confident they'll grow steadily and more about, I guess, and please correct me if I'm wrote, whether or not the 6.9 - 7.9 % average returns for ROTH IRA mutual funds is a dependable enough guess that it would imply I should put the $ 5500 there instead of toward the 5.5 % mortgage (which I guess is actually lowered when you consider tax writeoff).

When you prepay your mortgage, you are also neither better off nor worse off, or perhaps slightly better off absent those fees and writeoffs.

When you prepay your mortgage, there is no origination fee, no servicing fee, no writeoffs for deadbeats.

After paying those fees and writeoffs, they are still happy with the interest income from you.

The banks have writeoffs to take which the CMBS market is already anticipating.

If the restatement is moderate, such that it would wipe out a year of earnings or so, take some writeoffs quarter by quarter, until the hole is filled.