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.
• The deduction could be disallowed if it was used both for W-2 work and self-employment work.
  — Lori Ioannou, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2022
• My Alabama Taxes or who filed paper returns can amend their returns to take advantage of the deduction.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 28 Feb. 2022
• The 10% rate takes effect at the first dollar of taxable income, after benefits such as the standard deduction are applied.
  — Laura Saunders and Richard Rubin, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2022
• Deductions lower an individual's taxable income, which means not having the tax deduction could result in a smaller tax refund.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2022
• Both Knight and Howell said the standard deduction question is the single biggest hurdle, and both said negotiators have moved closer to one another.
  — Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• The standard deduction will be cut in half for single filers, as will the individual child tax credit.
  — Mychael Schnell, The Hill, 2 Dec. 2024
• While Congress allows a business deduction for expenses related to maintaining an asset like a corporate jet, that deduction is only allowed for the business use part.
  — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024