The satellite was declared a loss, and its owner, a company based in Hong Kong, received a $200 million insurance settlement.
Flying Scotsman Plc declared a loss of £474,619 for 2002 and the company's principal shareholder, the pharmaceuticals entrepreneur Tony Marchington, was declared bankrupt last September.
Times Newspapers – run by another great newspaper patriarch, Rupert Murdoch – recently declared a loss of £45m to add to the £85m losses the titles filed the previous year.
Then Swiss Re, a big reinsurer, declared a loss of SFr100m for the year and gave warning that it will also cut its dividend.
That day, New Century, a large mortgage lender, declared a loss for the previous quarter, and on April 2nd it filed for bankruptcy protection.
The stated price was lower than the $1.35m they had paid for the home three years earlier, allowing the couple to declare a loss.
The Romneys declared a loss of $77,000 on their 2010 tax returns for the share in the care and feeding of Rafalca, which Mrs. Romney owns with Mr. Ebeling's wife, Amy, and a family friend, Beth Meyers.
Donald Trump declared a loss of $916 million on his income tax returns for 1995, and — because of tax rules that favor wealthy real estate investors — he could have used that loss to avoid paying any federal income taxes for up to 18 years, according to a report in the New York Times.
SABMiller's subsidiary in Ghana, Accra Brewery, for example, sells £29m of beer a year, but in the past two years it has declared a loss, and it has paid corporation tax in only one of the four years from 2007-2010, the report, Calling Time: Why SABMiller should stop dodging taxes in Africa, finds.
