Pre-tax profits fell 26.6% to £3.1 million.pre-taxpre-tax /ˌpriː ˈtæks◂/ adjective 
Pre-tax profits fell 26.6% to £3.1 million.—pre-tax adverb
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- At the pre-tax level, profits were down 90.0% at £160,000.
- Despite a further weakening of demand, St Ives managed to hold pre-tax profits at £10.1m in the six months to January.
- In the first six months of 1992, member firms' pre-tax aggregate profits totalled £131 million.
- Interim figures unveiled yesterday show a 16% leap in pre-tax profits to £95m and are at the top end of market forecasts.
- Invesco saw pre-tax profit drop 23 p.c. to £14.5m in the year to December, after an exceptional item of £16.6m.
- Next in line was information services with 6.4% median turnover growth and 12.3% pre-tax growth.
- The pre-tax loss was £2.1m, down from £3.8m last time.
- The criterion is the number of years before the pre-tax cash receipts from the project pay back the capital invested.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Pre-tax profits fell 26.6% to £3.1 million.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
pre-tax profits or losses are the profits or losses of a company before tax has been taken away: Pre-tax profits fell 26.6% to £3.1 million.· Unemployment benefits on average rose in line with pre-tax incomes during the sixties.· We plot pre-tax income on the horizontal axis and post-tax income on the vertical axis.· With two children, that amounts to a fifth of pre-tax income.· A pre-tax income measured on the horizontal axis would convert into the same amount of post-tax income measured on the vertical axis.· Show that the majority voting equilibrium with a poll tax is such that, where Y m is the median pre-tax income.
· At the pre-tax level, profits were up 2.3% at £763,000.· At the pre-tax level, profits were down 90.0% at £160,000.· At the pre-tax level, profits fell 35.8% at £1,970m.· At the pre-tax level, profits fell 12.5% to £1.2m.· At the pre-tax level, profits were up 27.2% at £41.6m.· At the pre-tax level, profits rose 14% at £16.6m; earnings per share rose 11% to 16.8 pence.· At the pre-tax level, profits were up 89.6% at £29.2m.· At the pre-tax level, profits stood at £134,000 against losses of £3.2m last time.
· The pre-tax loss was £2.1m, down from £3.8m last time.· The company swung the axe before revealing pre-tax losses of £129 million for the first half of this year.· Christie Group has reported a pre-tax loss of £2.6m for the year to March.· But interest charges turned that into a £100m pre-tax loss - the first in the company's 26-year history.· For the year to March 31 it made a pre-tax loss of £9.8m, compared with a massive £448.4m last time.· The company wanting to build the plant has reported massive pre-tax losses.· It currently has assets of less than £2m and in the year to last March made a pre-tax loss of £716,000.
· Fisons announced a 17 percent decline in pre-tax profits in 1991 to £190.5m.· It was still more prominent in the rise in pre-tax profit to £5.14million, from £2.83million.· The half-year figures showed an 8 percent increase in pre-tax profits to £65.2m, and a similar rise in earnings to 7p.· Invesco saw pre-tax profit drop 23 p.c. to £14.5m in the year to December, after an exceptional item of £16.6m.· Central Television has announced record pre-tax profits of just over forty one million pounds.· That enabled it to boost pre-tax profits to March 31 to £101.4m from £65.7m in the previous 12 months.· Analysts expect the company to make £36m pre-tax profits for the year to March.· Their latest pre-tax profits were between 26%-54% of sales.
Pre-tax profits fell 26.6% to £3.1 million.—pre-tax adverb