He landed a 700-square-foot loft for $314,000 - 15 percent more than he would have paid at an open house two days earlier.

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There have been years when retail prices for wine at its arrival were lower than what futures buyers had paid two years earlier.

Vandals, though, had paid a visit earlier, and that was when the water station was wrecked.

You may also have to pay interest (if the tax should have been paid earlier) or a penalty.

Mr. Cretella made an offer, which he said was about the same as what the owners had paid six years earlier.

This was on top of the $8,000 in back Social Security taxes she had paid earlier.

He got about a third more than he had paid two years earlier.

This means that dealers are denied the possibility of subtracting taxes paid earlier by the producer or manufacturer.

But fund managers generated the capital gains distributions when they sold stock shares at prices higher than they had paid for them years earlier.