For drivers earning the median amount of revenue from Uber and Lyft's various service levels, or $0.59 per mile driven, expenses come to around $0.30 a mile, putting their median profit at $0.29 a mile.
7. Mileage - Driving expenses related to business can be deducted at the standard mileage rate of 57.5 cents per mile for the 2015 tax year.
He said that some of the proposals will "dumb-down and commoditize" funds, driving more investors to indexing and even "drive up expenses for the average investor" as wealthier investors rush to other investments.
"Smaller-balance accounts can drive up expenses for all shareholders in the long term," said Jeaneen Terrio, a spokeswoman for Oppenheimer.
Federal regulators are expected to order the banks to make sweeping changes to their mortgage collection and foreclosure practices, which will sharply drive up expenses.
Managers from both firms criss-cross the Atlantic in a stream of meetings and workshops, seeking ways to drive down expenses and share future development costs.
And many businesses fearful that paying for sick leave would drive up expenses have since reported that those concerns were unfounded.
That, in turn, will drive up expenses for insurance companies, and they'll respond by raising rates.
That would drive up expenses for insurers, forcing them to raise rates on their remaining customers, which in turn would cause more healthy people to exit the market.
