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- noun Plural form of
write-off .
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Examples
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Hedge funds will be strong-armed into accepting the same deal, though their write-offs will be against their own--rather than other people's--money.
David Paul: Back to the Drachma: Time to Let Greece Be Greece David Paul 2012
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Hedge funds will be strong-armed into accepting the same deal, though their write-offs will be against their own--rather than other people's--money.
David Paul: Back to the Drachma: Time to Let Greece Be Greece David Paul 2012
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Then if you're the lucky beneficiary of some tax expenditures (like personal-exemption deductions, medical write-offs and a tax rate of less than 100%), you'll get to keep some portion of what you earn.
Warning: A Foul Outlook for Holiday Airfares Nikki Waller 2010
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Hedge funds will be strong-armed into accepting the same deal, though their write-offs will be against their own--rather than other people's--money.
David Paul: Back to the Drachma: Time to Let Greece Be Greece David Paul 2012
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Hedge funds will be strong-armed into accepting the same deal, though their write-offs will be against their own--rather than other people's--money.
David Paul: Back to the Drachma: Time to Let Greece Be Greece David Paul 2012
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The appeals court said a trial judge in the case "permissibly found that the claimed tax deductions are for depreciation on property Wells Fargo never expected to own or operate, interest on debt that existed only on a balance sheet, and write-offs for the costs of transactions that amounted to nothing more than tax deduction arbitrage."
Court Says Wells Fargo Used Abusive Tax Shelters Brent Kendall 2011
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New adventures, lazy afternoons on a tropical isle, airfares for tax write-offs.
Anne Z. Cooke: Is Travel Writing Journalism? Anne Z. Cooke 2011
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Yet Harry Greene, director of credit in the personal and business banking division at Standard Bank — the largest by assets in South Africa — says, "Given the economic downturn, any saving (s) through lower write-offs has yet to be demonstrated."
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Instead of dealing with the problem and ring-fencing these assets or selling them to the government a plan which was considered and eventually rejected in favor of capital infusions, the banks took write-offs but held on to many of the loans.
Pamela Rosenau: Why I'm Not Buying Banks Pamela Rosenau 2011
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Hedge funds will be strong-armed into accepting the same deal, though their write-offs will be against their own--rather than other people's--money.
David Paul: Back to the Drachma: Time to Let Greece Be Greece David Paul 2012
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