If a contractor underestimates his overhead rate when bidding, the most likely result is:

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When the overhead rate built into the markup is too low, every bid is priced below the true cost of doing business: the job can show a profit on its own sheet while the company loses money once real overhead is paid. Bidding high is the result of the opposite error, over-recovering overhead. Lower taxes follow a lower profit but are a symptom, not the harm. And subcontractors price their own overhead into their own numbers; nothing shifts the general contractor's overhead onto them.