Word: deductions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...incentive allows a company sponsoring an ESOP to deduct not only the interest on the loan to buy stock for the plan but also the principal. Another tax break gives banks and other lenders a 50% deduction on their income from ESOP loans, which enables them to charge lower interest rates to companies that borrow for such programs. "These are the kinds of tax incentives that corporate owners dream of," says ESOP expert Joseph Blasi of California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo...
...Permit free-lance writers, photographers and artists to deduct expenses of a project even before it begins producing income...
Allow livestock farmers to deduct expenses of producing an animal even before it became productive; this would wipe out what has become known as the "heifer...
City residents who live in houses, rather than owning them as investments, can now deduct 20 percent of that average--a fixed sum of $59,499--from the assessed value of their property. What's left is the sum on which they must pay taxes...
...temperament, so it is safe to assume that all outbursts are concocted by a drama coach. The problem is that feigned passion plays well on television and is apt to be endlessly repeated on the post-debate newscasts. The solution: if the candidates get mad, the scorecard gets even. Deduct 5 points for each angry response, 10 if the candidate refers to his family...