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undivided profits

American  

plural noun

  1. earnings that have neither been distributed as dividends to stockholders nor transferred to the earned surplus account.


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A late June statement showed deposits of $76,589,035.84, undivided profits of $886,351.04.

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

To handle increasing inventories and new expansion without suffering under the undivided profits tax, Abbott stockholders last week authorized issuance of 50,000 shares of $100 preferred stock, of which only 20,000 will be issued immediately.

From Time Magazine Archive

After several days' cogitation even the gloomiest alarmist felt less anxiety over the enactment of an undivided profits tax.

From Time Magazine Archive

Unused deposits, capital, surplus, and undivided profits were growing very small in comparison with loans and discounts at the end of the year.

From A Brief History of Panics and Their Periodical Occurrence in the United States by Juglar, Clément

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