Older people in our sample were used to solid fuel housing where fuel was tangible and payments were in cash.
Though one could argue there are real tangible reasons for this payment — like not losing an ear the next time we get a haircut — the practice of paying more money than we are legally bound to do is still mystifying in an economic sense.
This payment is the tangible "value" that farmers are looking to get from their data.
Workers see the higher taxes they pay the same way Americans view the deduction from their pay for health insurance not as money down a rat hole, but as the payment for a tangible benefit.
Specifically, the government said that drug makers could not offer incentive payments or other "tangible benefits" to encourage or reward the prescribing or purchase of particular drugs by doctors, health plans or companies that manage drug benefits for employers and insurers.
Whereas price subsidies are seen as one of few tangible benefits in return for tax payments, removing them is heavily resisted.
The closing costs can only be rolled into the mortgage balance if it does not force the monthly house payment to exceed the "net tangible benefit" requirement of saving 5% or more per month on your house payment for the refinance to be approved.
The payment is always for something else, tangible or intangible, like one's time or the rights to memorabilia.
"Legitimate concern remains over the outlook in Kurdistan and we remain cautious pending a tangible framework defining availability of export markets and payments," analysts at Liberum Capital, a brokerage house in London, wrote in a research note.
Fifth Third Bancorp announced the sale of its majority stake in its payments-processing business, raising about $1.2 billion in tangible common equity and Tier 1 capital, to global buyout firm Advent International for $561.0 million.
