How to Use deduct in a Sentence

deduct

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  • You can deduct up to $500 for money given to charity.
  • This fee is deducted from your loan balance before the funds are disbursed.
    — Andreina Rodriguez, CNBC, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Armed forces reservists can deduct travel expenses for work more than 100 miles away from home.
    — Kathleen Pender, SFChronicle.com, 4 Apr. 2020
  • If endorsed by parliament, 80% of the discount will come from the hoteliers, who will be able to deduct it from their tax bills.
    — The Economist, 11 June 2020
  • Right now, employers deduct a 6.2% payroll tax from their workers' paychecks.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Adelman did, however, deduct the cost of the tutoring program from the reimbursement order.
    — Annysa Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 July 2020
  • Another would allow businesses with at least $25 million in annual revenue to deduct more interest from their tax bills.
    — oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2020
  • Many landowners are taking an additional hit to their revenue because their contracts allow gas companies to deduct post-production costs.
    — Zak Hudak, CBS News, 7 Aug. 2020
  • Taxpayers cannot deduct mileage for their regular moving expenses under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
    — Susan Tompor, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2024
  • One of the reforms of the 2017 tax act was reducing the amount of interest that corporations could deduct on their federal tax returns.
    — Allan Sloan, ProPublica, 8 June 2020
  • Side gigs also offer tax advantages, including more ways to save for retirement and the ability to deduct legitimate business expenses.
    — Liz Weston, Dallas News, 18 Mar. 2020
  • The reason is that tax preparation companies received these people’s tax refund first, deducted their fees, and then distributed the remaining refund to the customers.
    — Michelle Singletary, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2020
  • Navone said the landlord offered to deduct $300 from the next month’s rent.
    — Austen Erblat, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The balance is the amount that the grantor can deduct when the grantor contributes the property to the trust.
    — Matthew Erskine, Forbes, 22 May 2021
  • The bill the House passed would allow union members to deduct up to $250 of dues from their tax bills.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Potts says Bass Champs does not deduct the weight of the plastic weigh-in bag from the actual weight of the fish.
    — Dallas News, 10 Apr. 2021
  • Anyone that breaks the rules causes a cash sum to be deducted from the prize fund.
    — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 May 2023
  • Buyers of new EVs get to deduct the full $7,500 from their income taxes for the year in which the car is purchased.
    — Jim Gorzelany, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
  • The prepayment will be deducted from your bill at the end of your meal.
    — Jenny Porter Tilley, The Courier-Journal, 26 Nov. 2024
  • The bill had allowed for business owners to deduct up to 17.4% of their profits.
    — Justin Elliott, ProPublica, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Those 65 and older and the blind can deduct additional amounts.
    — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Here are some examples of things for which a landlord can deduct.
    — Jessica Roy, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2020
  • In that case, Jennet wouldn't be able to deduct the $800 capital loss on her taxes.
    — Shehan Chandrasekera, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Employers may choose to pay all of it or deduct up to 0.11% of it from employees’ wages.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 13 July 2024
  • Take photographs of the locks, keep the receipts for the labor and materials, and deduct the cost from your rent.
    — Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2021
  • Parties need to be creative in looking for ways to deduct their legal fees.
    — Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
  • By year’s end, Lynn hopes to find a way for potential donors to be able to deduct contributions.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2022
  • When one of their children decides to buy something, the parents pay and deduct the total from that kid's savings.
    — Star Tribune, 9 Jan. 2021
  • Each year, oil investors get to deduct a set percentage of the revenue from the property.
    — Jeff Ernsthausen, ProPublica, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Going that route avoids the risk of not being able to deduct the full amount of the donation from taxable income in a single year.
    — Eric James Allen, The Conversation, 9 Dec. 2021

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