Sentence examples for offset earnings from inspiring English sources

Under the "consolidated global profits tax," international corporations can use past losses at unprofitable divisions to offset earnings at profitable units in which they hold at least a 50percentt stake.

Foreign currencies also offset earnings this year by $197 million more than it did last year.

Here is the difference: For the company's regular tax calculation, the prior years' losses can offset 100% of current-year income and any excess is available to offset earnings in future years.

Without costs due to the closure of two stores and planning for new store openings that offset earnings by $50 million or 2 cents per share, the home improvement retailer beat analysts' profit expectations for $422 million, or 30 cents per share.

While fast-food workers' low pay may in some cases be offset by earnings from other family members, workers in the fast-food industry are twice as likely to be members of families with earnings below or near poverty than the workforce as a whole15 (Table 4, page 9).

Finally, multinationals that invert have an easier time achieving "earnings stripping," a tax maneuver in which an American subsidiary is loaded up with debt to offset domestic earnings, lowering the effective tax rate paid on sales in the United States.

We would expect this to eventually offset the earnings dilution caused by the sale.

The $988 million was offset by earnings that reduced the quarterly loss to $640 million.

In its 2010 results, the parent company said growth in Britain and Brazil helped offset weak earnings in its Spanish home market.

HSBC reported higher profit in the first quarter from the same period a year ago as its Asian business more than offset declining earnings in the United States.

Among those efforts were regulations to prevent moves like "earnings-stripping," in which an American subsidiary borrows from a parent company and uses the interest payments on the loans to offset its earnings.