Before this year, you couldn't write off expenses for a home office if you had an outside office.
This bill would also encourage small companies to expand by permitting them to write off expenses for new equipment.
These could take the form of tax write-off provisions for mortgage write-downs and a tax exemption on the shared appreciation.
Christina Ramos-Jalasco, head of the Philippine Olympics committee, insists it is too soon to write off Onyok for the region's top sporting event.
The markets were also boosted by a promise that, unlike the Greek deal, future bail-outs would not require a write-off for private-sector creditors.
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The temporary break also allows a donor to carry forward any unused write-off for a full 15 years, instead of the normal five.
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In the December 2010 tax deal, Congress upped it to a 100% write-off for property acquired and put to use after Sept. 8th, 2010 through Dec. 31, 2011.
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Meanwhile, the overall fiscal standing of Greece has led some foreign investors to say off the record that they will write off Athens for the next few years at least.
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It is too soon to write off the scope for an expansion in private-sector health care in Britain.
Credit indicators, management explained, remain at all-time lows, with the write-off rate for the U.S. lending portfolio was 2% for the quarter.
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Bove speculated that the timing of Cruz's departure suggests there might be a sizeable write-off coming for the firm, reminiscent of the scenario that played out with Warren Spector's exit from Bear Stearns (See " Bear Claws Out Co-President").
But if you and your family spend more than two weeks a year in the home, you can only write off these costs for the portion of the year that it's rented out or when you are actively seeking a tenant.
The UI may feel a little sluggish, and the continued lack of 3G will write it off completely for many, but for mobile users starting at the lower rungs, who want a well built phone with core functionality, Nokia's made a very reasonable proposition.
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There are demands for a write-off, as well as for Russia's debts to the West to be offset by notional loans made long ago to Soviet satellite states such as Vietnam, or by the energy debts accumulated more recently by nearby countries such as Ukraine.
Bove speculated that the timing of Cruz's departure suggests there might be a sizeable write-off coming for the firm, reminiscent of the scenario that played out with Warren Spector's exit from Bear Stearns (nyse: BSC - news - people ) (See " Bear Claws Out Co-President").
But the Gore campaign cannot write off Mr Nader as an irrelevance for two reasons.
Instead the write-off has largely been useful for professionals like doctors and accountants who want to allay the cost of continuing professional education.
The reason for the write-off is the gaping difference between the value of Smith Barney assets on the books of Morgan Stanley and Citigroup.
He was not willing to write it off, but in exchange for taxpayer assistance, insisting that those companies reform themselves and make themselves more competitive.
No matter what you think about the petition site, to write it off as simply a hangout for Death Star enthusiasts is missing the point.
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Ditto for folks who write off personal expenses as business costs.
Sir Mervyn King said the other day it would be wrong for the Bank to write off the government debt it had bought as part of its quantitative easing policy, because that would be an act of fiscal policy - and an irresponsible one, at that.
Wednesday, he also argued for allowing businesses to write-off all of their equipment expenses in 2011 rather than deducting the expenses over time.
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President George Bush had pressed for an even bigger write-off but France had argued that such generosity was unjustified, given that Iraq has the world's second-largest oil reserves.
If tenants vacate your home and you must fly down to Florida to do regular maintenance, for instance, you can write off your travel and meals as a business trip.
Taxpayers usually have a choice: Either deduct a flat 51 cents per business mile (in 2011), or write off IRS-approved depreciation plus actual costs for gas, maintenance and insurance, among other things.
As countries around the region begin to restructure and recapitalise their banking industries, they will free the banks to write off non-performing loans or trade them for equity without going into liquidation themselves.
Cut the level of bad debt by requiring banks to use their profits for the next five years to write off problem loans.
Dan Rostenkowski, the steak-and-martinis Chicago Democrat who reigned over the House Ways and Means Committee for 13 years, used to write off many of his golf outings as campaign expenditures.
"There was a one-off write-off of impaired credit card balances by one of the banking groups, " said a spokesman for the British Bankers' Association.
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