Is a year-end bonus a right of entitlement or a privilege to be earned?
Many sold stocks and others took year-end bonus income in 2012 to avoid higher 2013 tax rates.
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Higgs and Siddiqui said they participated in the scheme for their year-end bonus and to make their boss happy.
To claim a magical five-star rating from Morningstar or to win a year-end bonus, a manager might ignore the tax implications of frequently trading stocks.
According to Goodwin, a customer's checking his bank balance is a great cross-selling lead (awaiting a year-end bonus, perhaps?), and cost-conscious banks that forward callers to outsourced operators may be missing the plot.
Insofar as I in the past had thought about the Valentine's Day formula, I had assumed most men treated it like a year-end performance bonus, which would mean that the better the relationship, the better the gift (however you define "better").
Recently I have been relatively neutral on stocks because the markets in January have been flooded with cash from investors reinvesting proceeds from year-end tax avoidance selling and bonus income they took last year instead of 2013.
As you may be aware, the year-end fiscal cliff deal brought 50 percent bonus depreciation back from the dead for 2013, once again providing taxpayers the opportunity to immediately deduct half the cost of qualifying assets in the year of acquisition, plus the regular, year-one depreciation on the remaining basis.
After becoming governor of Tokyo in April last year, Ishihara quickly began to make good on his pledge to get the city's finances in shape by the end of his four-year term by cutting his own salary by 10% and his bonus by half.
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