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proprietorship

pruh prahy uh ter ship

  • n  an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits

  • Fifteen years with small-town Scripps-Howard papers, an excursion into the mail order insurance business, and, finally, the proprietorship of a chain of Florida papers which he .
  • Wisconsin's common folk, with an air of affectionate proprietorship, called him "the old man.
  • It is quite wonderful to watch Langella slowly, slowly slip off his velvet gloves to reveal the mailed fists of media proprietorship.
News & Articles

  • S Corporation SE Avoidance Still A Solid Strategy
    Even though Sean P. McAlary lost in Tax Court, the decision in his case shows that S Corporations are still a valid self-employment tax avoidance strategy.  If you operate as a sole-proprietorship, all of its income will be subject to self-employment tax.  If you put the business into an S Corporation, none of the income will be subject to self-employment tax.  Entrepreneurs will be inclined to ...
    Aug. 25, 2013 - Forbes
Quotes

  • Dusty Baker in Hamilton Journal News (subscription)
    That was a shocker to me,Baker said. "They're still leading the wild card, and that's why it was a shocker. I learned a long time ago that with ownership comes proprietorship. That's why it is not for us to understand, but it shocked me."
  • Andy Geiger in The Morning Journal
    There are those who want to try to get some sort of control, some sort of proprietorship or ownership with regard to a particular student-athlete,Geiger said. "And their reasons for that are scary."

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