write-off
- noun
- /ˈraɪtˌɔf/
- Specialized
- The accountant prepared a report to document the write-off of bad debts from last year.
- debt write-off
PPP round two write offs for self-employed or businesses for PPE expenses.
- PPP round two write offs for self-employed or businesses for PPE expenses.
- Vinus Bank stands to lose half billion in write offs at least.
- Some of the reasons for that are things like losses from prior years being carried over, tax credits for things like research and development and write offs for stock options.
- So much so that major studios are writing off entire network divisions and stuff like that, devaluing television in order to get a write off.
- Claim your tax write offs now before the year ends.
- Anyway, getting back to insurance, we notified our insurance company and said, look, our cars been involved in a it's a total write off.
- Often it's because they want to get a tax write off.
- So if I could buy real estate hands off, I think it's a great way to get some good tax write offs and gain some more leverage.
- I mean, all these cooking supplies, write offs.
Examples
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No, it's a total write-off.
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You still get the tax write-off.
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Claim your tax write offs now before the year ends.
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So it is the perfect time to start taking write offs this month.
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Oh, no, this is just a tax write-off.
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Not bad for a tax write-off.
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In most cases, tax write-offs have mitigated the loss for the company.
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Sorted through clutter, donated the good stuff, and got a nice write-off on taxes.
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That's a perfectly legitimate write-off.
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Likewise, a $500,000 "investment" -- $200,000 in cash -- would trigger a full $500,000 write-off, and so on.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
A reduction in the value of something a company owns to show it is now worth less
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Etymology
Write-off comes from bookkeeping: to write something off meant to mark it 'from the books' because it was no longer worth anything. So a write-off is when a business removes an asset or debt from its accounts as if it had no value.