The idea is that in exchange for getting to defer or cut regular taxes you must make a partial payment now via the AMT.

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As part of that agreement and in return for a partial payment, the credit card company canceled the unpaid balance of the credit card account.

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The retiree, Charles Ash, had inherited the scrapbooks from his parents, who had received them as partial payment for a debt from Sneden's nephew during the Depression.

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In April, two sales Mr. Koh was negotiating on behalf of foreign sellers stalled when one Argentine buyer wanted to pay with gold bars and another offered a studio apartment as partial payment.

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People were duped into sending a partial or full payment to a third-party agent via a wire transfer payment service and to fax their payment receipt to the seller as proof of payment.

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So I was able to give him partial money and come back and pay the rest off in payment plans.

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