deduction
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Students learn why they exist—and nitty-gritty issues such as deductions.
So if someone makes money on an investment like stocks, then their prediction-market losses could offset their short-term capital gains and can potentially go toward an annual $3,000 deduction on all capital losses.
From MarketWatch
First, the law allowed companies to claim immediate deductions for certain capital investments rather than spreading those write-offs over several years.
Taxpayers shouldn’t be allowed to donate their old socks and claim that they were designer items, exaggerating the value of the deduction.
The deduction will be applied immediately meaning the Foxes fall from 17th to 20th in the Championship and are only outside the relegation zone on goal difference.
From BBC
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