Figuring out sales tax and filling out all the sales tax returns was, as you might expect, complicated and exhausting.
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They will also search sales tax returns and the state records to disclose corporate charter information including principals of any businesses that have failed to file returns.
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Mr. Van Dyk said local officials would have to make clear to bondholders their willingness to default if cost overruns or low ticket sales diminished returns from sports events.
Use of hypothetical returns in sales presentations and target marketing of notes to the elderly have been cited as abusive sales practices.
In 2011, Logitech announced that it experienced more returns than sales for its Google TV-based set top box, the Logitech Revue.
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Eleven million itemizers deducted state and local sales taxes on their 2005 returns.
So as long as you have the stomach for it, ignore sales pitches touting safe, steady returns and hang onto that stock.
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Equity analysts are unable to calculate what Petrobras can earn from gasoline sales because it has to assume low returns due to the subsidy, even if world oil prices are rising.
With the addition of Ally International Operations, GM Financial will now be able to support GM customers and dealers in markets comprising about 80 percent of its global sales while earning strong risk-adjusted returns.
As Forbes has observed, companies that consistently score at the top in terms of EVA Momentum (the change in economic profit as a percentage of trailing sales) also tend to produce outsize returns for shareholders.
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What companies and others like them demonstrate is how the combination of growing sales, earnings and dividends create compelling total returns.
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Consumers also benefit because they no longer have to self-track and remit the sales tax due on their individual state tax returns.
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In many states, shoppers are required to pay unpaid sales tax when they file their state income tax returns.
According to sales data, during the past 35 years the returns for high-end stringed instruments have vastly exceeded the performance of American stocks (see chart).
All of these moves were consistent with a previously announced shift in executive compensation metrics that abandoned emphasis on sales growth in favor of more stress on shareholder returns.
The showings are so spectacular they overwhelm the drain on investors' returns from its 4.75% upfront sales load.
Then, create channels for rich, two-way communication as sales delivers your message to customers and prospects and then returns data to you for further nurturing.
The existing investment with debt may provide better risk-adjusted returns than can be achieved when reinvesting the prospective sales proceeds.
Delayed refund checks due to a late start to the tax season this year and snafus with returns claiming education credits no doubt contributed to slower sales because consumers had less cash in hand.
Nonetheless, if just a fraction of those 3 billion ticket sales can be diverted from cheap fleapits into pricier multiplexes, blockbuster returns await.
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Or that Herbalife allows distributors to return unsold product for up to a year, and that returns have accounted for less than 0.5% of sales in recent years.
Device sales declined during the fourth quarter due to higher third-party channel partner returns, lower selling volume and lower average selling prices.
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Primary examples: gains from investments and asset sales, sharp declines in tax rates, overly optimistic assumptions on pension plan returns and heavy reliance on stock options as a form of compensation.
Returns for both funds are for Class A shares, which carry upfront sales charges of up to 5.75% and yearly expenses of 1.36%.
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Shareholder returns are at the mercy of commodity prices, drilling gambles, perpetual asset sales and acquisitions, and hedging talents on both commodities and foreign exchange desks.
And even if the tax movement returns, it will likely be only a gradual drag on U.S. sales.
Additionally, such sales include all deferred NOOK device revenues, and device sales to third-party channel partners on a "sell-in" basis net of estimated returns.
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He returns to Novartis as it goes through what pharma insiders call a patent cliff: Novartis sales will be flat this year, the company said, as Diovan goes off patent.
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