How to Use write-off in a Sentence
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The only dispute with a further write-off is who goes first.
— Roger Barris, Foreign Affairs, 17 July 2015 -
The film will never be released so the company can get a tax write-off.
— Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 10 Mar. 2023 -
But 24-hour racing is really hard, and the race wasn't a write-off for Toyota.
— Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 5 June 2024 -
Holiday Haunt last year in exchange for tax write-offs.
— Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 13 Nov. 2023 -
Every single major section, from the cockpit to the engines, is a write-off.
— Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 July 2023 -
Orsted has taken a $4 billion write-off and canceled two large offshore wind projects in New Jersey.
— Nives Dolsak and Aseem Prakash, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023 -
Duffield believes that Coyote can make money — certainly more than the tax write-off.
— James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Nov. 2023 -
Unless, of course, Warners. needs another last-minute tax write-off.
— Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 9 Nov. 2023 -
Then there is the controversial write-off of Credit Suisse’s $17 billion in AT1 bonds.
— Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2023 -
Some of those write-offs involved a power plant in Citrus County, Fla., and a refinery in Europe.
— Paul O'Donnell, Dallas News, 11 Sep. 2023 -
Since Soulmates wrapped its run in late 2020, AMC — like others — has canceled a number of series to take advantage of tax write-offs.
— Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2023 -
There have been entire recent movies that were deleted by Warner Bros. Discovery so the company could claim a tax write-off.
— Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2024 -
The idea of a write-off is generally to lower a company’s tax bill, and this comes as Disney is aggressively looking to cut costs.
— Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2023 -
The latter four shows, in addition to being canceled, were also removed from Paramount+ as the streamer, like others, took advantage of a tax write-off.
— Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Oct. 2023 -
The best solution might be a repayment plan through the agency, with creditors agreeing to a lower monthly sum and a write-off of some past due interest.
— Terry Savage, Orlando Sentinel, 22 Feb. 2023 -
Although the 2017 change in the tax law made more payments to the government nondeductible, payments of restitution are generally still fair game for tax write-offs.
— Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024 -
Holiday Haunt and Acme v. Coyote, the company saved millions of dollars that would have went to completing and the marketing the movies, on top of collecting hefty tax write-offs.
— Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2024 -
Zaslav started to make cuts across the portfolio once the deal was completed, letting employees go and even shelving entire finished films as part of tax write-offs.
— David Sims, The Atlantic, 29 June 2023 -
The upcoming peak holiday season appears a near-total write-off.
— Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023 -
That's useful because such write-offs can lead to paper losses that allow landlords to offset income from rent, for example.
— Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 16 July 2024 -
As a result, vehicles suffering a collision may be more prone to a total write-off as the repair could cost more than its residual value.
— José Rodríguez Jr. / Jalopnik, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2024 -
Pfizer’s write-offs of unused vaccine inventory cut into BioNTech’s share of the profit in the second quarter.
— BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023 -
In an increasingly common move, the company also pulled movies and TV shows from Disney+ as content write-offs – including ones released in 2023.
— Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 July 2023 -
Critics argued Willow in retrospect would have been more valuable to Disney as a tax write-off than as actual content for subscribers.
— Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 3 June 2023 -
Tax write-offs are incentives that the United States government gives to business owners for running a business, since your business is helping grow the economy.
— Barbara Schreihans, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024 -
When Ronald Reagan became president in 1981, tax shelters became vogue, and people were investing in movies and cattle feeding as write-offs.
— Brianne Tracy, Peoplemag, 21 Dec. 2023 -
Like previous rounds, this latest write-off is a $1.2 billion campaign expenditure, one that doesn’t have to come out of the Biden campaign’s $56 million in cash reserves, or be raised with donation drives.
— Thomas Knapp, Orange County Register, 22 Feb. 2024 -
And the Social Security tax needs to be applied on gross earnings while not being eligible for any deductions or write-offs.
— Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 22 Jan. 2024 -
And, speaking of paying off, what exactly will the Texas Rangers get from Jacob deGrom (making roughly $37 million this season with 6⅔ innings thrown in spring training), besides a tax write-off.
— Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 29 Mar. 2023 -
That raises the potential of a write-off for part of that debt depending on how Wisconsin & Milwaukee Hotel's finances are restructured.
— Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2024
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That doesn’t mean Wall Street has written off the stock.
— Andy Kalmowitz / Jalopnik, Quartz, 5 June 2024 -
Win Scutt, for his part, isn’t ready to write off King Arthur just yet.
— Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2022 -
When consumers fail to repay their loans for a long time, banks write off the bad debt as a loss.
— Matt Egan, CNN, 7 Mar. 2024 -
But far larger amounts that would be written off over the next 10 years have been put on hold for now.
— Haisten Willis, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 26 June 2024 -
The pic is falling off 39 percent or less, a strong hold for a film that many had written off.
— Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 June 2023 -
Will the government take, and write off, our mortgages next?
— Arkansas Online, 3 July 2023 -
Peter, who voted for Mr. Sunak over Ms. Truss in the party elections, says the best thing to do is to write off the last six weeks.
— Natasha Khullar Relph, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Nov. 2022 -
And Heard is not the only person not being able to write off legal fees.
— Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022 -
Smartly, the Ebos refuse to write off any of their characters as buffoons.
— Amy Nicholson, Rolling Stone, 24 Aug. 2022 -
When Emily and Ross broke up, Baxendale was written off the show.
— Marianne Garvey, CNN, 1 Sep. 2023 -
Thank you for teaching me how to forgive beings and give another chance, not to be so quick to judge and write off.
— Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 5 July 2023 -
In this case, the insurance provider will likely write off the wreck as a total loss and provide a payout to the owner.
— Jim Slavik, Car and Driver, 10 July 2023 -
Lutz played Kenny Crosby, who was written off the show in the Season 3 premiere.
— Breanna Bell, Variety, 8 Aug. 2023 -
But by the end of the decade, he was written off as a casualty, laid low by drugs and cultural shifts.
— Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2023 -
The Bengals have too much talent to be written off, but a tough schedule might keep them out of the postseason.
— C.j. Doon, Baltimore Sun, 19 Sep. 2023 -
That’s not to write off the docuseries is a purely cynical venture.
— Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Aug. 2022 -
His insurer agreed, and Betty was written off and sent to a salvage yard.
— WIRED, 17 Nov. 2023 -
To put upgrading on hold would be to write off one of those $40 million seasons on his contract.
— Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 31 Dec. 2022 -
Acute mountain sickness, the least severe of the bunch, might be something easy to write off as just feeling a bit sick, or even hungover.
— Allie Conti, Field & Stream, 27 Sep. 2023 -
The character was written off the show but returned after a new voice actor was hired.
— David Matthews, New York Daily News, 8 July 2024 -
In a heartland state that Joe Biden’s re-election campaign has all but written off, that’s not nothing.
— Phil Elliott, TIME, 2 May 2024 -
But Herman doesn’t think that should write off every team within the conference this year.
— Dallas News, 23 Nov. 2020 -
Not that Tomljanović is ready to completely write off tennis love.
— Sean Gregory, Time, 12 Jan. 2023 -
State lawmakers in Kansas haven’t written off the issue for the 2025 session.
— Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 17 July 2024 -
This should serve as a cautionary tale to not prematurely write off 19-year-olds.
— Rahat Huq, Chron, 21 Mar. 2022 -
His confidence took a major hit and he was written off as a bust early in his NFL career.
— Dane Mizutani, Twin Cities, 19 July 2024 -
Universal had to write off a large portion of its $175 million budget.
— John Carreyrou, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023 -
There was concern over how Mr. Abramovich could write off the loan, given that he is frozen out of the European financial system.
— Max Colchester, WSJ, 25 May 2022 -
Beyond that, Slotkin argued for capping student loan rates but neither was for writing off student loan debt in a one-time fashion.
— Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 15 Oct. 2024 -
Forrester made his final appearance in episode 11 on May 7 and his character was written off in the finale of Season 3 as having gone on the run with his mother with the pair heading to Alaska.
— Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2024
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