The firm, which employs approximately 7,000 in the City, incurred a $242m charge for former chancellor Alistair Darling's one-off bonus tax, which was levied on bonuses over £25,000 until last April.
However, the 50% tax rate on high earners which comes into force next month and the one-off bonus tax windfall is likely to feed through and impact the prime central London residential market, as is the increase in stamp to duty to 5% on properties purchased over £1m".
Goldman confirmed that its total bill for former chancellor Alistair Darling's one-off bonus tax last year was $465m.
Miners got a pay rise of between 11% and 22%, along with a one-off bonus of 2,000 rand ($240).
Miners will get a pay increase of between 11% and 22%, along with a one-off bonus of 2,000 rand ($240).
Analysts took that as providing a new base for dividend growth, but the company has clarified this as just a one-off bonus.
These have offered some combination of a one-off bonus of up to 1m yuan ($160,000), promotion, an assured salary and a housing allowance or even a free apartment.
If his payoff sticks in the craw, the controversy pales next to the resurfacing row over Fontenla-Novoa's 2008 one-off bonus of £5m, bitterly opposed at the time by institutional investors and unions alike.
The 400 most senior bankers at Credit Suisse in London will be forced to take a cut to their annual bonuses to help protect the rest of the bank's staff from Alistair's Darling's 50% one-off bonus tax.
Michael Fallon, the Tory deputy chairman, said: "Their one-off bonus tax would raise far less than the bank levy which we've put in place permanently – something they refused to do when they were in government".
The company has nowclarified that the 10% increases in 2015 and 2016 are a one-off "bonus", so inother words they reverse, leading to the drops in our dividend estimates, andleading to lower dividend per share growth than we had expected in 2017.
