| 词汇 | pre-tax |
| 释义 | pre-tax adjective[ before noun ] (alsopretax)/ˌpriːˈtæks/ukus TAX, ACCOUNTING before tax is paid: They will spend more than 15% of their pre-tax income on health care costs. Full-year pre-tax earnings rose approximately 8% to $670 million from $620 million. pretax profits/lossThe company had a pre-tax loss of £4.5 million. Examples of pre-taxpre-tax The pre-tax income of each person is determined by her talent level and her choice of effort. He posits that firms are choosing 401(k) plans because only in 401(k) plans do workers make voluntary, pre-tax contributions. Although it had returned pre-tax profits every year since 1984, these were at too low a level to meet the financial needs of the company. At t=0, the agent starts work and saves a constant fraction, s, of his pre-tax paycheck, w(t), in a retirement savings account. If a person does not work, then she has no pre-tax income. We assume that assets held inside and outside the 401(k) grow at the same pre-tax real rate of return of 3%. Allowed in 1978, but implemented in 1981, they allow workers to make pre-tax contributions into an account maintained by the employer; employer contributions are discretionary. The pre-tax solution can be obtained by setting t = 0 in the above expressions. Suppose that they both initially exercise 10 units of effort, which implies that the pre-tax income of the talented is 100 and the pre-tax income of the untalented is 50. The pre-tax price differential on some models exceeds 80 per cent and even in the most open and competitive of sectors, such as consumer electronics, price distortions persist. Moreover, assume that there exist some unproductive persons in society (that is, persons with a talent that is so low that they for any effort level have no pre-tax income). First, there is the difference in the compounded pre-tax investment returns on employee contributions to the 401(k) plan and the returns in the taxable account. In 1984, it made pre-tax profits of £26 million, in 1985 the figure was £81 million and in 1986 it made record profits of £120 million. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 So, by encouraging investment in those activities with the highest pre-tax returns, the return on investment will rise—that is, our wealth creation performance will improve. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Total investment last year is estimated to have been twice the companies' pre-tax profits. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of pre-tax These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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