undivided profits
Americanplural noun
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On its books were $11,220,150 deposits, $508,093 surplus & undivided profits.
From Time Magazine Archive
Under an undivided profits tax, the corporation might declare the same dividends with the result that it would have to pay 35% on the remaining $500,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last March capital was $25,000.000, surplus and undivided profits $87,000,000, total resources $833,000.000.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is I who am expected to pay the income tax, undivided profits tax, social security tax, the plus tax, the surplus tax and the nonplused tax.
From Time Magazine Archive
The remaining portion, the undivided profits, is the fund from which, after payment of current expenses and of any losses which may occur, the next dividend to the stockholders will be made.
From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Phillips, Chester Arthur
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