Sentence examples for preference items from inspiring English sources

Unlike other hospital products, implants are so-called physician preference items, meaning that doctors — not the hospitals — often choose which manufacturer's implant to use.

This leads to an increase in the present value of tax preference items (Géczy et al. 1997).

Interest from these munis is one of several "preference items" that get added to your regular taxable income to arrive at your AMT income.

As a result, you may have to pay the AMT if your regular taxes, combined with certain adjustments and tax preference items, are more than these amounts.

Once they're finished unpacking, the Dragon will be loaded up with nearly 1,300 pounds of cargo — think spacewalk hardware and crew preference items that no longer serve a purpose aboard the station — which will touch down in the Pacific Ocean when the Dragon returns to earth later next Thursday.

The AMT, is a "secondary tax put in place to prevent the wealthy from artificially reducing their tax bill through the use of tax preference items".

"Congress should have put them back in as a preference item" when capital gains rates were cut, "but it didn't," Mr. Gale said.

The profits -- based on the difference of an exercise price and the value of the stock when the option is exercised -- are treated as a preference item and can be taxed at a rate of 26percentt under some circumstances.

The main culprit is the same thing that benefits the ultrarich and represents the single biggest preference item (i.e., loophole) in the tax code: preferential capital gains rates.

The number of attributes was limited to seven in order to avoid an excessive number of preference item combinations, which would create an excessive burden on the participants.

The four items excluded from the Hungarian one were related to quality preference (item 5) and the financial aspect of food choices (item 6), the transgression of dietary rules (item 8) and beliefs about unhealthy food at the market (item 14).