deducted; deducting; deducts
Examples of deduct in a Sentence
You can deduct up to $500 for money given to charity.
after deducting taxes, what's left is your net pay for the week
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Insurance reimbursements must be deducted before claiming any losses.
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Raul Elizalde, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
To pay for former President Trump’s tax cuts for large corporations and the rich, congressional Republicans pushed the tax burden further onto middle-class families by capping the amount of state and local taxes that can be deducted from federal income taxes.
—Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024
Those costs don’t vanish, however — they’re deducted from your cash disbursal.
—Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2024
That set-up, which has existed for decades, allows creatives to deduct agent and manager commissions and other expenses from their income tax.
—Gene Maddaus, Variety, 30 Sep. 2024
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Raul Elizalde, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
To pay for former President Trump’s tax cuts for large corporations and the rich, congressional Republicans pushed the tax burden further onto middle-class families by capping the amount of state and local taxes that can be deducted from federal income taxes.
—Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024
Those costs don’t vanish, however — they’re deducted from your cash disbursal.
—Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2024
That set-up, which has existed for decades, allows creatives to deduct agent and manager commissions and other expenses from their income tax.
—Gene Maddaus, Variety, 30 Sep. 2024
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“Deduct.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deduct. Accessed 30 Oct. 2024.
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deduct
transitive verb
de·duct
: to take away (an amount) from a total
specifically
: to take as a deduction
must be capitalized…rather than immediately deducted —D. Q. Posin
compare amortize
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