Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: -hh Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Taxes (was Re: Memory) Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 19:55:15 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 01:55:16 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="6f229f4cd5015316899b186acd1bdc07"; logging-data="2220715"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18j56O2sJsiK+0J9Q3/ogJYlqhDXkTAJHE=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:s5/gM0pkbhyNe/LNifb4cfQPuZk= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 1950 On 11/19/24 5:02 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > On Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:21:20 -0500, -hh wrote: > >> A five year cycle works for business tax write-off purposes too. > > People say “tax write-off” as if you deduct expenses against tax. > You don’t: you deduct them against taxable income. Agreed; its a lazy shorthand, like saying Unix instead of UNIX(tm) -hh