Arlen Specter tried to include the cost writeoff in a 2009 tax bill.
He cites an impending writeoff of the HMO's intangibles (mostly goodwill), now 42% of assets.
Also, if the car is used for business purposes, it is eligible for a writeoff.
In May the IRS made clear that Medicare premiums, too, qualify for that writeoff.
The latest maneuver was revealed today in London, where BSkyB announced a writeoff of its KirchPayTV investment.
In the same way, people who want to help poor, indebted countries advocate a writeoff of the debts.
While the writeoff will depress this year's numbers, the company has a solid core business and clever management.
So the additional writeoff you claim in year 11 is a writeoff you're not claiming in year 26.
Ways out: Murdoch may walk away and take a big writeoff or German banks could bail out Kirch.
The impoverished impresarios of Brentwood get an extra writeoff if they take their film crews into, say, deepest Flatbush.
The gift of the remainder interest to charity triggers an immediate tax writeoff.
But even those games bringing less demand can be of some value, such as a charitable donation and corresponding tax writeoff.
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Both landlords and REIT shareholders benefit from tax laws that permit a depreciation writeoff for investment real estate, which shelters some of the income.
The charitable writeoff is a lot more valuable with the 44% top tax rate that President Obama is seeking than at, say, a 25% rate.
And if the donated item-say a computer-is given by a business that has already deducted the item as a business expense, there is no further writeoff.
Its holdings include Spectrasite, which went Chapter 11, and CityNet, a telecom on which the fund took a 50% writeoff. cibc says the lawsuit is baseless.
But that income included depreciation benefits from the company's third-quarter asset writeoff and didn't reflect the fact that quarterly revenue was down 10.2% from a year ago.
Pavlo argues that the charge was, rather, a way to use the industry downturn to mask the writeoff of receivables that had been rotting for years on the books of MCI and WorldCom, artificially boosting profits.
He dreamed up a new way of shaping the screws, using two spinning discs instead of dies, but it would have required expensive new equipment and the writeoff of millions of dollars in old equipment.
Other advantages: By making Giving Back a public charity rather than a private foundation, Pollick avoids a 2% federal excise tax on assets, while donors get a bigger tax writeoff if highly appreciated assets are donated.
You could stuff five or ten years of charitable contributions into a charitable gift fund of the sort run by Fidelity, Schwab and Vanguard, claiming the writeoff against 2012 income and disbursing the donations in coming years.
But instead, Kelly found a Web site, Depreciate'em, that convinced him it was worth claiming depreciation the more complicated, accelerated way: You break the property into components and group those that theoretically don't last as long into writeoff periods of 15, 7 or even 5 years.
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