While small business owners are eager to lower energy costs, Mr. Slosberg said, they can be reluctant to pay for new equipment, even when rebates are included.
Typically, when rebates are granted, they have ranged from 15 to 30 basis points a year, industry executives and consultants said.
Invoice is what the manufacturer initially charges the dealer for the vehicle – though the price ultimately paid by the dealer may be significantly lower than invoice, when rebates and performance-based incentives are factored in, according to the FTC, which helps bolster the dealer's profit margin.
The letter to the DOJ also suggests that Mylan "may have knowingly misclassified EpiPens, potentially in violation of the False Claims Act and other statutes," which could, they wrote, "result in an incorrect, lower payment obligation to the Government program" when rebates are involved.
Matters can be further complicated when rebates and discounts are given for one drug on condition that there will be a predefined increase in utilisation and expenditure of a second drug.
When the rebate of 9% (entry rebated) or 14% (cumulative rebate based on the entry one and additional 5% based on sales) was incorporated into the calculation of daily drug cost, rivaroxaban was found to be much more cost saving alternative relative to VKA (-€468 and -€650 for 9% and 14% respectively).
Some estimates suggest that when a rebate was handed out in 2001 less than half of it was spent.
Even when the rebate seems to be the best deal, getting the money back can be tedious.
Even for the diligent, there are times when a rebate merely brings the price of a camera, a video game or perhaps a computer down to the level of other good deals.
As a result, he said, the parties' lawyers have to make sure that they determine if and when the rebate has been passed along to the shareholder, and then apportion the amount accordingly at closing.
But he couldn't guarantee that fees wouldn't go up when the rebate freeze is lifted, and wasn't clear how Labor arrived at the finding that patients, if the freeze remained, would be left about $20 out of pocket.
