undivided profits
Americanplural noun
Example Sentences
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After several days' cogitation even the gloomiest alarmist felt less anxiety over the enactment of an undivided profits tax.
From Time Magazine Archive
Heavy taxes on undivided profits, kept by companies beyond their "reasonable" needs, did not prevent a large amount of rich men's incomes from escaping surtaxes because the word "reasonable" was hard to define.
From Time Magazine Archive
With this in mind he gently eased the defaulting bookkeeper out hushed up the fraud, charged the loss to surplus & undivided profits.
From Time Magazine Archive
Early last year he put forward his undivided profits tax on corporations.
From Time Magazine Archive
It forbids corporate ownership of stock in a competing corporation, forbids interlocking directorates in large banks and in other competing corporations, with capital, surplus and undivided profits aggregating more than $1,000,000.
From Modern Economic Problems Economics Volume II by Fetter, Frank Albert
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