undivided profits
Americanplural noun
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More than $5,000,000 was used this year for write-off and reserves and Mr. Baker proposed to draw on surplus and undivided profits for an additional $6,500,000.
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This merger, with $10,000,000 of capital surplus and undivided profits, will have total resources of over $119,000,000.
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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.
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Compared to these burdensome taxes, with their low yield, the President's tax on undivided profits seemed the least of many evils.
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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 Frank Albert Fetter
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