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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Gross income"”.
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An analysis of paragraph (c) of the 'gross income' definition and the term 'services rendered'
… or legal by nature, by imposing tax on the income of those taxpayers. This is known as income tax. Another form of direct taxation is estate duty. By contrast, indirect taxation is where a transaction or consumption, rather than an entity is taxed. An example of this is VAT. The South …
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An analysis of employing adjusted gross income measures as a proxy for fiscal capacity in the local composite index for selected Virginia school divisions
… of economic capacity are tax bases and personal income. The most commonly used measure for fiscal capacity is equalized assessed value of property within the governmental units in question. Once the fiscal capacity is determined, relative capacity among governmental units may be calculated by …
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Is South Africa's headquarter regime successful and does it go against national legislation? Are rewards from a customer loyalty programme capital or revenue in nature?
… is addressed in terms of Section 80 A of the Income Tax Act, which also addresses the draw backs and restrictions which as a result South Africa has not received any applications by companies in becoming a headquarter company. A comparison is drawn between South Africa's headquarter regime …
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Using sentiment and social network analyses to predict opening-movie box-office success
… and sentiment analysis to predict the box-office income of movies. Successful prediction techniques would be advantageous for those in the movie industry to gauge their likely return and adjust pre- and post-release marketing efforts. Additionally, the approaches in this thesis may also be applied …
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Productivity analysis of private and socialized agriculture in Ethiopia
… appear to have a potential to generate increased gross income per hectare at a declining rate with respect to an equiproportionate increase in all inputs, except land, upon an increasing average cost of production per unit of cereal output. The private and state farms appear to be operating with a …
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An economic evaluation of supplemental irrigation on claypan soils
… include both the direct impact on agriculture's gross income and the indirect effects resulting from changes in this income."--Page 4.
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A reconsideration of the commercial banking imputation in the official US national accounts
… difficulties encountered in the measurement of Gross Income and Product Originating in the commercial banking industry according to the conventions of the National Income and Product Accounts are a subset of a much larger philosophical question. This query deals with the definition and …
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Assessment of Iso-Ahola’s Theory of Tourism Motivation on Willingness to Fly as a Point-to-Point Suborbital Space Tourist
… for this study. Age, gender, and annual gross income served as control variables.</p> <p>A quantitative methodology and non-experimental, cross-sectional study design was executed using 870 participants from Amazon’s ® Mechanical Turk ®. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze …
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Piercing the corporate veil: a review of the concept and considerations of its relevance in South African tax law
… addition, part II focuses on specific aspects of gross income and deductible expenditure, as well as some related topics. In many instances, the corporate veil concept is linked to the debate of substance versus form. Over time, it seems that "substance" has gained ground at the expense of "form", …
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Piercing the corporate veil: a review of the concept and consideration of its relevance in South African tax law
… addition, part II focuses on specific aspects of gross income and deductible expenditure, as well as some related topics. In many instances, the corporate veil concept is linked to the debate of substance versus form. Over time, it seems that "substance" has gained ground at the expense of "form", …
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College Choice and Persistence at a Small Private Catholic College: Why Do Students Leave?
… institutional grant aid, a family's adjusted gross income, if a student was a first generation college student and a student's high school preparedness and their relationship to persistence. Students are making decisions that impact their future each and every day, when they pick the "right" …
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Image rights payment: The taxation of resident sportspersons
… deals. As a result, sportspersons earn income from the use of their image in promotional activities. The Income Tax Act No.58 of 1962 does not provide specific rules for the taxation of image rights payments and the Guide on the Taxation of Professional Sports Clubs and Players (the 2018 …
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Optimal labor income taxation with perks
… the optimal transfer-tax system, and ii) the top-income marginal tax rate. To the best of our knowledge, this thesis constitutes the first theoretical attempt to deal with the issue at hand. In fact, all existing papers that analytically study the moral hazard problem with perks, either focus on …
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The Political-Economy of Science and (Bio)Technology: The Emergence of Agricultural Biotechnology in Canada
… for Canadian farmers include stagnant net farm income despite increasing yields and gross income, higher farm expenses and debt, and stringent patent laws.
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The relationship between traditional student success variables with retention of the Tennessee Lottery Scholarship Program
… grant eligibility, college, and parent adjusted gross income did not indicate a relationship with retention of the lottery scholarship. Logistic regression analysis revealed two variables, college grade point average and cumulative attempted hours, had a significant value in predicting retention …
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Essays on the financial behavior of corporations and households
… losses that are deductible from Adjusted Gross Income and the required holding period for long-term losses have changed over the past three decades. These changes alter the incentives for year-end capital loss realization for individual investors. This paper presents evidence that is …
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Resource productivity on test demonstration farms in Southwest Virginia
… power, livestock and feed crops, and tobacco. Gross income was taken as the dependent variable and production functions of the Cobb-Douglas type were fitted to the different farm types, and marginal value productivities were derived from the coefficients, The marginal value product of each …
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Beef producers' attitudes toward the Virginia Cooperative Extension Service and their assessment of extension methods of disseminating information
… Beef production is their main source of farm income. A random sample of 300 beef producers was systematically selected for the study. Based upon the percentage of annual gross income from beef production, the producers were categorized as part-time and full-time producers. Data were collected …
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The Application of Marketing Techniques in a Difficult Economy and Tracking Return on Investment
… those whose practices experienced a decline in gross income. It is unknown how these practices are tracking their return on investment or, as the investigator suspects, their response is based on a hunch rather than collected data. 5. New patients still report their general dentist as the …
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