How to Use deduct in a Sentence
deduct
verb- You can deduct up to $500 for money given to charity.
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Tax and gambling experts warn: Don't bet on being able to deduct your gambling losses.
— Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 24 Mar. 2021 -
Potts says Bass Champs does not deduct the weight of the plastic weigh-in bag from the actual weight of the fish.
— Dallas News, 10 Apr. 2021 -
It could be enacted with an option to deduct actual business expenses instead.
— Marie Sapirie, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021 -
In addition, Congress imposed new limits on the amount of mortgage debt that new purchasers can deduct interest on.
— Richard Rubin, WSJ, 8 Apr. 2021 -
Business owners cannot deduct those expenses from their state taxes, either, according to Benda.
— Kim Jarrett, Washington Examiner, 5 Apr. 2021 -
That tax break lets homeowners deduct annual mortgage interest payments from their taxable income, thereby reducing their tax bill.
— Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2024 -
One is the intangible-drilling-cost deduction, which allows oil-and-gas producers to deduct most of the costs associated with finding and preparing wells.
— Jinjoo Lee, WSJ, 14 Apr. 2021 -
The union then bargains with the same politicians the union supports in elections to deduct member dues automatically from home-worker Medicaid payments.
— The Editorial Board, WSJ, 4 Apr. 2021 -
The Internal Revenue Service has agreed not to deduct federal tax debts from the most recent economic stimulus payments.
— Chris Morris, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2021 -
Navone said the landlord offered to deduct $300 from the next month’s rent.
— Austen Erblat, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Sep. 2021 -
The balance is the amount that the grantor can deduct when the grantor contributes the property to the trust.
— Matthew Erskine, Forbes, 22 May 2021 -
The bill the House passed would allow union members to deduct up to $250 of dues from their tax bills.
— The Editorial Board, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2021 -
Anyone that breaks the rules causes a cash sum to be deducted from the prize fund.
— Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 May 2023 -
Buyers of new EVs get to deduct the full $7,500 from their income taxes for the year in which the car is purchased.
— Jim Gorzelany, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022 -
The bill had allowed for business owners to deduct up to 17.4% of their profits.
— Justin Elliott, ProPublica, 12 Aug. 2021 -
Those 65 and older and the blind can deduct additional amounts.
— Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2024 -
In that case, Jennet wouldn't be able to deduct the $800 capital loss on her taxes.
— Shehan Chandrasekera, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021 -
Employers may choose to pay all of it or deduct up to 0.11% of it from employees’ wages.
— Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 13 July 2024 -
Take photographs of the locks, keep the receipts for the labor and materials, and deduct the cost from your rent.
— Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2021 -
Parties need to be creative in looking for ways to deduct their legal fees.
— Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022 -
By year’s end, Lynn hopes to find a way for potential donors to be able to deduct contributions.
— Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2022 -
Each year, oil investors get to deduct a set percentage of the revenue from the property.
— Jeff Ernsthausen, ProPublica, 7 Dec. 2021 -
Going that route avoids the risk of not being able to deduct the full amount of the donation from taxable income in a single year.
— Eric James Allen, The Conversation, 9 Dec. 2021 -
And the very rich would be allowed to deduct their income taxes at death from their estate taxes.
— Steve Rosenthal, Forbes, 13 May 2022 -
Moritz had hired a nurse to help care for his ailing mother and sought to deduct a portion of the expenses from his taxes.
— Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 18 July 2023 -
In valuing the debtor’s interest, do not deduct the value of secured claims.
— Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 July 2023 -
And if Jill placed her land in a partnership, then the partnership (and its partners) will deduct the value of the easement.
— Guinevere Moore, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022 -
The deal represents a big savings since the value of the free day can be deducted from the cost of any five day reservation.
— Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 8 Mar. 2023 -
That set-up, which has existed for decades, allows creatives to deduct agent and manager commissions and other expenses from their income tax.
— Gene Maddaus, Variety, 30 Sep. 2024
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