Sentences with phrase «like writing off»

This offers benefits, like writing off expenses, but has drawbacks — specifically losing any group coverage a hospital may offer.

If you travel a lot, you'll likely be taking more deductions based on your car (and there can be nuances there, like writing off actual expenses and writing off vehicle depreciation).

Not to mention you'll hopefully enjoy the other benefits of owning property like writing off interest on your mortgage and property value appreciation.

The alternative is believing that these seven run - allowing outings are indicative of a brand - new Kimbrel, which kind of feels like writing off a hitter after a bad two weeks.

This season looks like a write off already, honestly we'd be lucky to finish seventh going by our last 3 games.

It looks like a write off!

I also wonder how this can work / draw the line between business / tax related concepts & just personal (like write offs, profits, buyouts / sellouts of content, like videos / photos, and promoting content, etc.).

In my opinion I like the write offs of owning an LLC warrants you.

Not exact matches

I am not kidding here, I'm probably forced to turn off my laptop and read a book (or write a blog like this one) at least 50 percent of the time.

Penned by journalist Michael Wolff, also famous for writing a scathing biography about media baron Rupert Murdoch several years ago, Fire and Fury took off like, well, wildfire as soon as word of its imminent publishing broke just a few weeks ago.

While, fresh but scaling startups tend to drag their feet until they see clear evidence of issues, prolonging upgrading may cause unnecessary and costly headaches like missed billing opportunities, inventory write - offs, efficiency gaps in operations or even fraud.

If you want readers to care about your story, you need to give them a reason; for instance, may like to start off by explaining why you decided to write the piece.

I'm just trying to make sure that there's at least one contrarian and maybe one voice of realism among this season's many purveyors of touching truisms, pious platitudes, and bumper sticker BS — all of which feels like it was written by either Hallmark or hacks whose prior Republican clients and «candidates» are now sitting on the sidelines sucking their thumbs and watching The Donald drive the bus off the bridge.

The analysts act like the watch is going to be written off.

Producers like Carrizo Oil & Gas have also been subject to depressed oil prices and investors have written off the stocks out of worry, Cramer explained.

Dig Deeper: Travel Tax Deductions How to Write Off T&E: Entertainment Like meals and lodging while traveling, entertainment for business purposes is 50 percent deductable.

While older Canadians expressed fond memories of the brand, younger ones wrote off the store as a place for grandpas who like all things brown and bulky.

Such services will inevitably lead to or spur alternative subscription and one - off options, whether it's the sort of virtual private network encryption I wrote about recently or perhaps even micro-transactions — imagine a Google - like service that doesn't gather your information, but rather charges you per search.

The negative aspect from a buyer's vantage point is that intangibles like goodwill can't be written off as quickly as they might be in an asset - based deal.

About five years ago, Malcolm Gladwell, author of bestselling books like The Tipping Point and Blink, made this prediction, basically writing off the power of social media for businesses: «In about five years, everyone will head back toward traditional advertising.»

And, while there many more steps that you'll need to take as this process evolves, like researching the opportunities you find, choosing the best one, writing a business plan, obtaining financing, and getting the proper legal advice, at least you'll be starting off on the right foot.

Small merchants like my company take credit card security very seriously while some larger companies simply write it off as a cost of business.

Competitors like Hall and Atlassian HipChat are still out there doing business, and even if they lack Slack's fanatical fanbase, they can't be written off.

For C corps, they can claim more tax deductions than a partnership may be able to, write off benefits for employees (like health insurance) as business expenses, and are at much less risk of being audited as opposed to an LLC or sole proprietorship structure.

Then go back to what you've written so far about your target market, and take everyone off the list who doesn't fit — or who you just don't like.

If, for instance, you're laying off someone you've worked with for a long time, «You could say, «I have written what I think is a strong recommendation for you; would you like to see it?

«Plaintiffs» brief illustrates the views of those who may never have even laid eyes on the weapons they vilify,» the group wrote, «much less squeezed off a few rounds at the range, like millions of peaceful, law - abiding Americans regularly do.»

Premier Rachel Notley and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's definition du jour of the «national interest» in the Kinder Morgan pipeline has not been subjected to serious journalistic scrutiny, writes Georgia Straight Editor and former investigative journalism instructor Charlie Smith, in a commentary that points a finger at Canadian media fixtures like Evan Solomon, Rosemary Barton, Vassey Kapelos, Anna Maria Tremonti, Michael Enright, Carol Off, and Eric Sorenson.

I hope the workers start fighting back soon, I do like what the retirees have started, and I hope it grows exponentially, as I know for sure the retirees can no longer be just some notion classed and written off as legacy costs.

Treat your 401k like Social Security by writing it off mentally, but max it out while you can.

But over the last few years (since 2008), I think there's been a pretty dramatic growth in what we'd call Tea Party politics in that set — extreme conservatism that goes beyond hands off fiscal and regulatory policy, the kind of feverish mindset in which you could write with a straight face that progressives might be building toward some sort of mass wealth confiscation or internment or even extermination for the likes of Tom Perkins.

Don't write off marketing because it seems like an unnecessary expenditure; even though it demands additional investment up front, it will pay off if you're willing to grow your strategy.

I read a cdn arts book written by a socialist kind of like Frasier Crane who actually turned me off arts funding a bit.

Standard & Poor's and Thomson Financial calculate it as earnings that don't include one - time events, like when a company sells a physical asset or writes off an investment.

Our tax tip on travel is to write off expenses like airfare, hotel fees, car rental and mileage, and travel expenses like laundry costs.

Write off 401ks like you do social security?

Now men who know more than God [sarcasm] decide they don't like that saying, and it doesn't fit in their thinking, so off they go and write books and develope a following of other people who don't like the truth of what Jesus said.

With this encomium to Rick's virtue that seem like a campaign elegy, I don't mean to write off his chances for ultimately winning the nomination as the primary season goes on (though I think the chances are doubtful at best).

In the face of that, let's not write off a guy like Francis Chan or take him to the principle's office because he forgot to mention the Lamb's book of Life or to use the words «Glory of God» when he said that angels have to cover their eyes in front of God when they are shouting out «Holy!

Like the comet reports, you can write them off, or you can believe them and track them down... like I did... if you bother to believe God, seriously believe him, and don't have any problem with what he wants, the apostles accounts won't be any shock to you eitLike the comet reports, you can write them off, or you can believe them and track them down... like I did... if you bother to believe God, seriously believe him, and don't have any problem with what he wants, the apostles accounts won't be any shock to you eitlike I did... if you bother to believe God, seriously believe him, and don't have any problem with what he wants, the apostles accounts won't be any shock to you either.

Tyerman writes almost like his medieval sources, describing a few events and then heading off on narrative tangents.

It is easy to write off Tony Soprano because he can be lumped together with other (real) villains like Hitler, Stalin, and Charles Manson.

The apostle Paul writing to the church in Ephesus encouraged them «with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self... and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.»

It simplifies things when we can write - off the thoughts and opinions of other people by assuming they've taken the easy way out, that they're just trying to be popular and liked.

You can all just start believing in me now, praying to me... if you'd like me to write down a bunch of stuff that is hard to understand and contradicts itself, I will, but I'll make sure dozens of people get their hands on it first, change it to their liking and to what suits their needs, then pass it off as my original word.

I always attributed this disconnect to my general frustrations with modern evangelicalism — that it's been hijacked by the Republican Party, that it's in a perpetual state of defensiveness and «wartime» posturing, that it has closed itself off to science and independent thought, that it has lost sight of the message of Jesus regarding the Kingdom of God, that it has become commercialized and shallow — all the things we «emergers» like to write books and articles about.

Who amongst the wealthy & pseudo-wealthy don't like every possible opportunity to secure even more tax write - offs?!?

But since I'm writing another book right now, my blogging has fallen off a bit at the moment but I am still writing a big newsy free e-newsletter to my subscribers every month on the 20th so if you'd like to sign up for Field Notes, just click here.

(Now I've said something like that for years, but people usually just write me off as an overly enthusiastic Dylan fanatic).

David discovered this principle and this was probably why God let him off the hook and did not have him stoned to death for adultery and murder like the law required: because David was humble and repented (even though Achan and plenty of other people repented and God still punished them, and this has nothing to do with the fact that David was king and probably would not have commanded his own stoning to keep the law even though he wrote Psalm 119 which is all about how much he loved keeping every commandment in the law).