Deduction Quotes (35 Quotes)


    When you looked at the deduction versus the cars being donated, there was a discrepancy. There were some real concerns and compliance issues. There were situations where people were being told they could deduct the Blue Book value, period.

    You can't remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex of the sex cannot be remembered, the substantive truth of it, it is by nature self-erasing, you can remember its anatomy and be left with a judgment as to the degree of your liking of it, but whatever it is as a splurge of being, as a loss, as a charge of the conviction of love stopping your heart like your execution, there is no memory of it in the brain, only the deduction that it happened and that time passed, leaving you with a silhouette that you want to fill in again.

    Certain things like the shrubbery, large trees, have a value. And if a large tree is knocked down, then if you can find a horticulturist or arborist who will come out and place a value on that tree, you may be able to get a deduction.

    Its the biggest tax hike for homeowners ever considered. Replacing the mortgage interest deduction would punish millions of homeowners, particularly those living in high-cost markets. The proposals would reduce home values and send a chill through the housing market.




    I've got mixed emotions with the way things went today, ... We battled back from a disappointing start to the regatta but to lose out on a chance to advance because of a point deduction is disappointing, but the event has to protect the boats and that's that.

    Yes, I would, absolutely, ... There are prototypes that have proven somewhat true over the years. I think it's valid, and there's something to that. But I'm never going to look at just one or two guys and live by that deduction. You cheat yourself doing that. The Florida receiver thing makes a nice story, and it is supportable with the names you've got to work with, but that kind of trend is true in a lot more places than just Florida, and it's true at more positions than just receiver.

    You can borrow up to half the account balance or 50,000, whichever is less. But if you borrow, you have to repay, typically through a payroll deduction.


    He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.

    Some of their recommendations are bound to be politically unpopular. Cutting the home-mortgage interest deduction is an example.But it's important to have a comprehensive starting point that will get everyone talking and thinking,

    President Mubarak assumes a role for himself which both Washington and London have not given to him, ... In reality there is no noble, fair and intelligent person in Egypt, in the Arab homeland or the whole world sharing Mr. Mubarak in his deduction.

    It will actually make quite a bit of difference before you had to itemize to take the deduction, now you don't have to worry about that. So, you can just be a normal person, you gave 100 dollars and you can deduct 100.



    In general, preparing a return as a married couple filing jointly may give you the lowest tax liability and the highest standard deduction, but to find the best scenario, it's wise to calculate your return both ways and see which is the most advantageous for you. For example, if both of your incomes are about the same, you may pay less in taxes by filing jointly, depending on the rest of your return.

    These long chains of perfectly simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to carry out their most difficult demonstrations had led me to fancy that everything that can fall under human knowledge forms a similar sequence and that so long as we avoid accepting as true what is not so, and always preserve the right order of deduction of one thing from another, there can be nothing too remote to be reached in the end, or to well hidden to be discovered.

    It is relatively easy for the IRS to verify the returns and reported income of taxpayers whose income results from wages, interest and dividends, and who take the standard deduction, who comprise the majority of taxpayers, ... It is harder, and often requires audits, to verify the income of taxpayers with other forms of income and deductions.


    Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language.




    Good hitters don't just go up and swing. They always have a plan. Call it an educated deduction. You visualize. You're like a good negotiator. You know what you have, you know what he has, then you try to work it out.






    A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until compelled by beating and curses to put its foot into that dirty puddle.

    Today, less than 30 percent of American taxpayers take advantage of the mortgage interest deduction. Under our proposal, everyone who has a mortgage will get a benefit.

    The regulations will also be applied for this World Cup. At the first sign (of racism) there will be a deduction of three points, then we are finished with the problems of discrimination.

    After itemizing a taxpayer compares their itemized deductions to the standard deduction and takes whichever is higher. Seventy percent of the taxpayers take the standard deduction, meaning only 30 percent really receive a tax break for their donations, ... My plan offers a deduction for hurricane relief donations in addition to the standard deduction.




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