Sentence examples for payments count from inspiring English sources

When the Government makes payments to a Japanese holder of Treasury bills, the interest payments count as an American import and hurt the domestic service trade balance.

Under WTO rules, however, if governments pay farmers at rates that are even slightly above market prices when they are stockpiling food, those payments count toward the country's 10% amber box ceiling.

The Related Group has instituted an unusual rent-to-own program, in which no price is set in advance and all of the rental payments count toward a down payment, if the unit is purchased within a year.

Should values rise, then the rental payments count toward a purchase of the home within the agreed-upon time period.

One limitation to student loan repayment programs is that the employer payments count as taxable income to the employees.

The program can continue indefinitely, and the reduced payments count toward your forgiveness period, which could be 10, 20 or 25 years.

The flow of royalty payments, counted in pennies and nickels, may be the least glamorous part of the music industry.

It did so retroactively, meaning that none of the previous loan payments counted toward the 120 payments needed to qualify for forgiveness.

The big difference is that with forbearance the period in which you are not making payments counts toward the total counted in your repayment period.

These programmers spend their days writing and then tending the software that their employers use to keep their businesses up and running: tracking payments, counting inventories and all the rest.

The term "compensation" generally means earnings, such as W-2 wages or self-employment income, though some other income (such as taxable alimony payments) counts as "compensation" as well.