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gross income
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Atlas Shrugged
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- All of their gross revenue is turned over to the Railroad Pool Board in Washington, which acts as trustee for the industry as a whole, and divides the total income among the various railroads, according to a ....a more modern principle of distribution.†
Chpt 3.3gross revenue = income before most expenses are taken out
- At the end of the year, the Pool Board distributes the total gross income, and every individual railroad is paid, not on the haphazard, old-fashioned basis of the number of trains run or the tonnage of freight carried, but on the basis of its need-that is, the preservation of its track being its main need, every individual railroad is paid according to the mileage of the track which it owns and maintains.†
Chpt 3.3gross income = income before most deductions or expenses are taken out
- You're to receive a big cut of the Atlantic Southern's gross income, out of the common pool at the end of the year-only there won't be any gross income left for the pool to seize, will there?†
Chpt 3.5 *
- You're to receive a big cut of the Atlantic Southern's gross income, out of the common pool at the end of the year-only there won't be any gross income left for the pool to seize, will there?†
Chpt 3.5
- The afternoon newspaper was lying on his deskand she was staring at an item on the back page: An Emergency State Tax had been passed in California for the relief of the state's unemployed, in the amount of fifty per cent of any local corporation's gross income ahead of other taxes; the California oil companies had gone out of business.†
Chpt 3.5
- But to avoid the waste and danger of dog-eat-dog competition, all the companies will deposit their gross earnings into a common pool, to be known as the Steel Unification Pool, in charge of a special Board.†
Chpt 3.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(gross income) income before most deductions or expenses are taken outn everyday use, a person’s gross income means all the money they earn before taxes and other deductions are taken out of their paycheck. For a business, gross income (or gross profit) usually means sales revenue minus the cost of the goods or services sold, but before paying wages, rent, interest, and other operating costs. The IRS has more detailed rules about what counts as gross income in different situations, so the exact legal definition can vary with tax laws and instructions.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)