People would invest in buildings solely for tax purposes because you could write off the depreciation on the building, so people were cynically setting up DPPs as tax shelters only.

人们可以仅仅为了避税而投资一幢大楼,因为你可以对大楼计提折旧,注,计提的折旧可以抵扣税前收益从而减少应交税金 所以讽刺的是DPP仅被当做了避税工具

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America also wants rich nations to write off as much as 95% of Iraq's bilateral debt.

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And while this dude takes high dudgeon douchery to a new level, I see plenty of entry-level peers who struggle to strike a balance when it comes to figuring out how much of their on-the-job interactions to take personally and how much to write off as typical professional white noise.

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But to write it off as archaic or irrelevant would be to write off one of the most imaginative games ever designed.

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