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n. - The accumulated and undivided profits of a corporation after provision has been made for dividends and reserves.

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  • They had this net operating loss -- this carry-forward provision that was debated in the House and the Senate.
  • For a year they've paid their own cost out of pocket, with a kind of a carry-forward policy that some of you have had before, too.
  • Liberty cannot move forward to buy the rest of the company until mid-2012 because a change of control would result in the loss of the NOL carry-forward.
  • Fourth, the earnings of a corporation were frozen to a particular fiscal year, with none of the flexibility of the carry-forward, carry-back provisions of the present law.
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