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The online gambling firm Sportingbet is preparing to tell investors how it has fared since being forced out of the US market. It had to halt its operations in the US after a law was passed which effectively banned online betting. Egon Cossou reports.
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Driving Sports Reports – Extra! Ford’s new 2011 Fiesta and Mustang V6 Tube. Duration : 3.73 Mins.
It’s LA Auto Show time, and that means it’s time for the new models to be revealed. On this DSTV Extra! we take a first look at the new Ford Fiesta, Mustang and Mazda 2. Plus, someone we can all be jealous of. *Correction: The Mustang V6 does not have direct injection. Ford uses DI in other V6′s, but not that one.
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News Update: Ford US Sales Up 46%, Shares Reverse to the Upside (F) Tube. Duration : 1.12 Mins.
“Shares of Ford (NYSE:F) have reversed earlier losses and are now trading slightly higher after the company reported US total vehicle sales of 160873 – a 46.3% gain vs. the year-ago period. The company said it is on track to gain market share for the second year in a row. A Ford Vice President commented: “”The key to our success in the US market is the relentless cadence of new vehicle, powertrain and technology introductions. Every high-quality, fuel-efficient new vehicle provides Ford and its dealers with an opportunity to reach new customers and build a stronger foundation for future growth.”" SmarTrend currently has Ford Motor in an Uptrend. Since 2008, SmarTrend subscribers trading Ford Motor using our alerts outperformed the stock by 313%. We are monitoring these developments and will alert subscribers to any change in trend.”
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April car sales in the US market have fallen short of forecasts, dropping 8 percent compared to March. Chrysler had spectacular sales last month increasing 25 percent year over year. The Honda Accord was the top-selling car in America. All that and more, plus John takes a spin in the sporty BMW 128i.
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Samsung has chosen Taiwanese vendor Via Technologies to supply the CDMA chipset for the new Droid “Charge” handset that it is supplying to the US market via Verizon (NYSE:VZ), according to ABI Research. As a significant shift in component sourcing strategy, one that may represent the first salvo of a market assault on Qualcomm’s (NASDAQ:QCOM) long-undisputed command of CDMA markets in the US and elsewhere. In addition to the Via Technologies CDMA chip, Samsung is using its own proprietary baseband chip for the LTE. QUALCOMM has a potential upside of 18.1% based on a current price of .5 and an average consensus analyst price target of .75.
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The purpose of this description is to demonstrate the importance of the tax impact in the sale of your business. As an M&A intermediary and member of the Ibba, International business Brokers Association, we identify our responsibility to advise that our clients use attorneys and tax accountants for independent guidance on transactions.
As a general rule, buyers of businesses have already completed some transactions. They have a process and are surrounded by a team of experienced mergers and acquisitions professionals. Sellers on the other hand, sell a business only one time. Their “team” consists of their face counsel who does general business law and their accountant who does their books and tax filings. It is important to note that the seller’s team may have puny or no touch in a business sale transaction.
Another general rule is that a deal buildings that favors a buyer from the tax perspective ordinarily is detrimental to the seller’s tax situation and vice versa. For example, in allocating the buy price in an asset sale, the buyer wants the fastest write-off possible. From a tax standpoint he would want to allocate as much of the transaction value to a consulting contract for the jobber and tool with a short depreciation period.
A consulting contract is taxed to the jobber as earned income, generally the top potential tax rate. The contrast between the depreciated tax basis of tool and the whole of the buy price allocated is taxed to the jobber at the seller’s lowly wage tax rate. This is generally the second top tax rate (no Fica due on this vs. Earned income). The jobber would prefer to have more of the buy price allocated to goodwill, personal goodwill, and going concern value.
The jobber would be taxed at the more suitable private capital gains rates for gains in these categories. An private that was in the 40% wage tax bracket would pay capital gains at a 20% rate. Note: an asset sale of a business will ordinarily put a jobber into the top wage tax bracket.
The buyer’s write-off duration for goodwill, personal goodwill, and going concern value is fifteen years. This is far less desirable than the one or two years of cost “write-off” for a consulting agreement.
Another very important issue for tax purposes is whether the sale is a stock sale or an asset sale. Buyers generally prefer asset sales and sellers generally prefer stock sales. In an asset sale the buyer gets to take a step-up in basis for machinery and equipment. Let’s say that the seller’s depreciated value for the machinery and tool were 0,000. Fmv and buy price funds were .25 million.
Under a stock sale the buyer inherits the historical depreciation buildings for write-off. In an asset sale the buyer establishes the .25 million (stepped up value) as his basis for depreciation and gets the benefit of bigger write-offs for tax purposes.
The jobber prefers a stock sale because the whole gain is taxed at the more suitable long-term capital gains rate. For an asset sale a quantum of the gains will be taxed at the less suitable wage tax rates. In the example above, the seller’s tax liability for the machinery and tool gain in an asset sale would be 40% of the 5,000 gain or 0,000. In a stock sale the tax liability for the same gain associated with the machinery and tool is 20% of 5,000, or 5,000.
The form of the seller’s organization, for example C Corp, S Corp, or Llc are important to think in a business sale. In a C Corp vs. An S Corp and Llc, the gains are branch to double taxation. In a C Corp sale the gain from the sale of assets is taxed at the corporate wage tax rate. The remaining proceeds are distributed to the shareholders and the contrast between the liquidation proceeds and the stockholder stock basis are taxed at the individual’s long-term capital gains rate.
The gains have been taxed twice reducing the individual’s after-tax proceeds. An S Corp or Llc sale results in gains being taxed only once using the tax profile of the private stockholder.
Selling your business – tax observation checklist:
1. Get good tax and legal counsel when you institute the initial form of your business – C Corp, S Corp, or Llc etc.
2. If you institute a C Corp, maintain ownership of all appreciating assets face of the corporation (land and buildings, patents, trademarks, franchise rights). Note: in a C Corp sale, there are no long-term capital gains tax rates only wage tax rates. Long-term capital gains can only offset long-term capital losses. Personal assets sales can have suitable long-term capital gains treatment and you avoid double taxation for these assets with big gains.
3. Look first at the economics of the sales transaction and secondly at the tax structure.
4. Make sure your pro maintain team has deal production experience.
5. Before you take your business to the market, work with your professionals to understand your tax characteristics and how various deal structures will impact the after-tax sale proceeds
6. Before you faultless your sales transaction work with a financial planning or tax planning pro to resolve if there are strategies you can employ to defer or eliminate the payment of taxes.
7. Recognize that as a general rule your desire to “cash out” and receive all proceeds from your sale immediately will growth your tax liability.
8. Get your professionals involved early and keep them involved in analyzing various bids to resolve your best offer.
Again, the purpose of this description was not to offer you tax guidance (which I am not fine to do). It was to alert you to the huge potential impact that the deal buildings and taxes can have on the economics of your sales transaction and the importance of piquant the right legal and tax professionals.
Selling Your company – Deal structure and Taxes
Technology is an splendid thing, isn’t it? Just look at the advances technology has made over the years. We have photograph within a photograph television, which is good if you can focus on more than one thing at a time – like a fly. There are airbags in our cars to prevent us from injury, unless, of course, a sharp piece of metal punctures the airbag, while the crash, causing it to deflate and sending the steering wheel column out the back of your head. And there’s the elevator. Many jokes have been written about the elevator, like, “The stock shop has been up and down more than an elevator.” Or, uh, okay, maybe that’s the only joke.
Some elevators feature safety cameras, many have digital floor readings and some are even voice activated. “Thirty-ninth floor. Please watch your step.” I can only imagine that it will be just a matter of time before elevators, in tall buildings, will be featuring stewards handing out meals and showing in-flight movies. “Today’s presentation will be ‘The Towering Inferno.’”
One thing that hasn’t changed about the elevator is Elevator Etiquette. habitancy will get on an elevator, like voiceless mannequins, staring up at the numbers of the floors as they pass by and hoping that person in the elevator doesn’t speak to them.
Has society become that rigid that we’re afraid that person is going to speak to us in an elevator? I say, “Yes.” I also say, “Lighten up.” We’re all on this crazy planet together, so why not be a small less rigid and a small more pleasant? That’s why I’ve developed the “Carl Megill Handbook of Elevator Etiquette in the New Millennium.” Here are some fun things you can do on your next elevator ride.
1. Even if you are spoken to on an elevator, most elevator trips are only about thirty seconds long. It’s not likely you are going to organize some lifelong association with that person. And, what topic would you most likely be discussing? The effects of American involvement in the Middle East? I don’t think so. Most likely, you’ll be discussing the age old favorite – the weather. Here’s a easy conversation even you could initiate:
You: Nice day out there.
Them: Beautiful.
You: May rain tomorrow.
Them: I hope not.
You: Well, this is my floor.
Them: Have a nice day.
You: Take care.
Almost nauseating, isn’t it? But, a real no-brainer. You’ve been courteous, informative and, yet, no threat of any time to come involvement with that person.
2. If you would like to make the conversation a small less impersonal and possibly even get you a laugh, you can say something like, “Isn’t it splendid that this elevator was made by the same guy who used to get drunk on Saturday nights and would lock himself up in the jail on ‘The Andy Griffith Show?’”
3. If you’re feeling daring the next time you are on a crowded elevator, get a sing-a-long going with the music being piped in from Wdul. Of course, it will be significant for you to know the words to “Tie A Yellow Ribbon”, “Somewhere My Love” and “Muskrat Love.”
4. If you’re actually feeling daring, call the radio hub from the handy, accident telephone that the elevator supplies and have them dedicate a song to the group on the elevator. “Alright, this is Bobby Boring on Wdul dedicating the next estimate to those wacky folks on Elevator estimate Three, in the Hitchcock Building. Here you go guys, it’s the Fifth size and ‘Up, Up And Away.’”
5. Speaking of using the telephone, if every person on the elevator has the time, hit the accident Button and let every person have a opening to call person and ask them if their refrigerator is running. It will loosen things up and make for a memorable ride for everyone.
If you supervene these suggestions, this should make for a less rigid society and a lot more fun for all. (Incidentally, if the construction custodian should complain about the misuse of the elevator, the next time, use the accident telephone to have a dozen pizzas sent to his house.)
5 Fun Things To Do On An Elevator
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