Deductions

An income tax is levied on any income that exceeds deductions.

It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious, because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn.

I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were submitted to him.

Your hand stole towards your own old wound and a smile quivered on your lips, which showed me that the ridiculous side of this method of settling international questions had forced itself upon your mind. At this point I agreed with you that it was preposterous and was glad to find that all my deductions had been correct.

Luxury spending is ineligible for tax deductions.

An off-duty security guard said he had not heard the news, but found it hard to believe that he would no longer see income tax deductions on his salary. He said he sent his family back to his rural home in April because he could no longer afford to pay rent in the capital. He said it was cheaper for him to share a room with other workers than rent space for his wife and three children.