How to Use deduction in a Sentence

deduction

noun
  • What is your pay after the deductions have been taken out?
  • Our deduction was based on the information given to us at the time.
  • His guess was based on intuition rather than deduction.
  • It was a logical deduction.
  • The government is offering new tax deductions for small businesses.
  • Investors in these funds can claim a tax deduction for the year in which a deposit to the fund was made.
    Dan Weil, WSJ, 20 May 2022
  • This tax must be paid to the centre within 30 days of the end of the month during which the deduction was made.
    Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 24 June 2022
  • The loans were paid back through payroll deduction, reducing the risk of nonpayment.
    Alexander Saeedy, WSJ, 13 June 2022
  • Besides, the deduction for volunteering is just 14 cents a mile — a rate that hasn’t budged in more than a decade and won't change anytime soon.
    Russ Wiles, USA TODAY, 19 June 2022
  • The deduction is taken off your taxable income, which lowers your overall tax liability.
    Bassam Mustafa, Forbes, 29 June 2022
  • Donating the stuff — and accepting a tax deduction of its fair market value, however small — would solve your problem without adding to your daughter’s.
    New York Times, 5 July 2022
  • The centerpiece: increasing the standard income tax deduction, which Youngkin had wanted to double.
    Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 1 June 2022
  • By reducing the number of deductions and exemptions, the state hopes to create a more equitable system that promotes fairness and predictability.
    Nolan McKendry | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Oct. 2024
  • So why did Biles earn the deduction in the first place?
    Athena Sobhan, Peoplemag, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Even without the deductions for his falls, Richard’s score would have been just the ninth best.
    Emily Giambalvo, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
  • If anyone breaks the rules, deductions come out of the group's prize money total.
    Milan Polk, Men's Health, 17 July 2023
  • Her legs briefly came apart early in the vault, causing a small deduction.
    Maggie Astor, New York Times, 30 July 2024
  • Businesses would also be able to take part of the deduction in one year and save the rest for future years.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 11 Sep. 2024
  • According to Henry, both Ford and the union agreed that Green was owed her deductions.
    Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 28 Apr. 2023
  • To itemize, your deductions would need to be higher than that amount.
    Liz Weston, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2024
  • And any amount over the 30% threshold is a carryover deduction for five years.
    Mia Taylor, Fortune, 23 Dec. 2022
  • This is also when the Indonesians learned about a range of salary deductions.
    Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Not a new tax credit for this, an extra deduction for that.
    Scott Burns, Dallas News, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The level of the standard deduction matters to more and more taxpayers.
    Laura Saunders, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Many times the mileage deduction is key for those who are running their own businesses.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 25 Jan. 2023
  • In 2017, the deduction was limited to investments that firms had owned for at least three years.
    John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2022
  • The standard deduction is the below-the-line deduction most people take.
    E. Napoletano, wsj.com, 31 Dec. 2023
  • The judges gave Biles a 0.3 deduction on her beam routine for … not holding her salute long enough after her beam routine.
    Rachel G Bowers, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2024
  • If the teams are found guilty, the new case will almost certainly lead to another points deduction.
    Tariq Panja, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2024
  • That there is a score and that the score is calculated through a running tally of credits and deductions.
    James Poniewozik, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2024

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