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Allocation

The apportionment or designation of an item for a specific purpose or to a particular place.In the law of trusts, the allocation of cash dividends earned by a stock that makes up the principal of a trust for a beneficiary usually means that the dividends will be treated as income to be paid to the beneficiary. The allocation of stock dividends generally means that such dividends will be added to the shares of stock held as principal, thereby increasing its size.

See: allotment, appointment, apportionment, appropriation, arrangement, assignment, budget, circulation, classification, consignment, coupon, dispensation, distribution, division, interest, order, part, portion, quota, share

ALLOCATION, Eng. law. An allowance upon account in the Exchequer; or rather, placing or adding to a thing. Ency. Lond.

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The Service intends to challenge this type of transaction on various grounds, including the fact that the special allocations lack substantial economic effect under Sec.

Current developments

It also provides a level of detail that can make the resulting allocations more defensible.

Reasonable joint cost allocations in nonprofits

National Security Division has an allocation of Rs 100.

Ministries, divs asked to surrender funds for unapproved projects

628 billion for various development projects of Higher Education Commission out of total allocation of Rs35.

Rs306.4 bn released for development projects under PSDP 2017-18

Part 9 Hajdu-Bihar county, allocation 16,920,000 USD

Removal of animal carcasses and transfer

2632(c)(5)(A)(i) allows a taxpayer to elect out of the automatic allocation rules for certain indirect skips or for any or all transfers made to a particular trust (election out).

New regs. on elections for indirect skips: final regulations on indirect skip transfer elections give taxpayers many generation-skipping transfer tax planning options. This article explains the election rules and available planning opportunities under the new regulations

Cost control investments, however fast-acting in cutting claims, are slow to trigger a reduction in allocation.

Share and share alike: corporations can create savings incentives by the way they allocate the cost of risk internally. (Property/Casualty: Risk Management)

An amount of Rs 300 million have been released for Finance Division out of its total allocations of Rs 20.

Rs 141.17 bn released for development projects under PSDP 2017-18

To the contrary, P's uncontradicted evidence established that in determining cost allocations, unrelated parties would not include any cost related to the issuance of options.

Allocation of employee stock options to cost-sharing agreement

Traditionally, pension fund real estate allocations have been somewhere around 4%, but current targets can be as high as 8% to 10%.

Light-weight pension funds bulk up on real estate

Provide online advisory services to enrollees to help them with their investment allocation decisions, Plans can otter online enrollment and provide educational tools, retirement calculators and transaction capabilities, such as changing investment allocations.