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1. ''Financial accounting.''  
''Tax''.
When a fixed asset is purchased the cost is not debited to the income statement (or profit and loss account). Instead the debit is to the balance sheet, creating an asset.
 
Tax benefits to a taxpayer arising from having made losses.
 
For example, an entitlement to offset tax losses against other taxable profits, to reduce the amount of tax payable.


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The total market value of a firm's capital.


== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Capital]]
* [[Tax relief]]
* [[Fixed assets]]
* [[Terminal loss relief]]


[[Category:Accounting,_tax_and_regulation]]

Revision as of 13:19, 10 March 2022

Tax.

Tax benefits to a taxpayer arising from having made losses.

For example, an entitlement to offset tax losses against other taxable profits, to reduce the amount of tax payable.


See also