Definition of deduct
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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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In Michigan, for example, a married couple filing a joint tax return can deduct up to $10,000 in contributions to the Michigan Education Savings Program in a year on their Michigan income tax return.
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Miami-Dade also would deduct nearly $600,000 from the purchase price to cover environmental clean-up costs for the site, which a memo on the proposed sale said were estimated to run as low as $280,000 and as high as $1.6 million.
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Why not level the playing field and allow renters to deduct their rent?
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The $9.1-million addition would bring the city’s total net cost next fiscal year to $40.3 million after deducting $10 million paid by city employees.
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Costs for charter schools are deducted from the budget of the public school budget each student would otherwise have attended.
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Origin and Etymology of deduct
Latin deductus, past participle of deducere
DEDUCT Defined for English Language Learners
deduct
playDefinition of deduct for English Language Learners
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: to take away (something, especially an amount of money) from a total
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deduct
Legal Definition of deduct
: 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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