Business Expense - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: business expense Page: 2entertainment expenses
entertainment expenses Employment expenses that have an element of entertainment that is directly related to conducting business. ...
home office expense
home office expense Expenses arising from operating a business in a qualified manner in your home. ...
Noting
Noting, when a promissory note or bill of exchange has been dishonoured by non-acceptance or non-payment, the holder may cause such dishonour to be noted by a notary public upon the instrument, or upon a paper attached thereto, or partly upon each.Such notes must be made within a reasonable time after dishonour, and must specify the date of dishonour, the reason, if any, assigned for such dishonour, or if the instrument has not been expressly dishonoured, the reason why the holder treats it as dishonoured, and the notary's charges. [Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (26 of 1881), s. 99]--The making of a memorandum or note on a bill of exchange by a notary which states that he has presented the bill for payment or acceptance, and that it has been dishonoured. It is usual, in cases of non-payment of bills of exchange, for London bankers, after six o'clock on the day upon which the bills fall due, to cause inland bills to be noted. The duty of a notary in protesting a bill consists in thre...
Budget
Budget, In U.K. budget is presented soon after the beginning of the financial year by the chancellor of exchequer. His annual financial statement known as Budget deals with resources of the country, estimates of probable income and expenditure and fresh tax proposals, Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 2001.Budget, is the annual estimate of revenue and expenditure of a country, Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English, A.S. Hornby, 2002, p. 155.Budget, is a periodic assessment of and programmes for national revenue and expenditure, proposed by Government and presented to Parliament, Chambers 21st Century Dictionary, p. 183.Budget, refer to the statement of the estimated receipts and expenditure of the Government of India known as annual financial statement, it is caused to be laid before both Houses of Parliament by the President in respect of every financial year on such day as he may direct, Constitution of India - Article 112, Rules of Procedure and Condu...
income statement
income statement A presentation of the sales, expenses, and profit or loss of a business on a periodic basis ...
loss
loss 1 : physical, emotional, or esp. economic harm or damage sustained: as a : decrease in value, capital, or amount compare gain b : an amount by which the cost of something (as goods or services) exceeds the selling price compare profit c : something unintentionally destroyed or placed beyond recovery d : the amount of an insured's financial detriment due to the occurrence of a stipulated event (as death, injury, destruction, or damage) in such a manner as to create liability in the insurer under the terms of the policy NOTE: As a general rule, economic losses are deductible from adjusted gross income under section 165 of the Internal Revenue Code. There are, however, numerous exceptions and limitations. actual loss : the identifiable and calculable monetary detriment that is suffered or will be suffered as a result of an act or event actual total loss : a loss in marine insurance in which the property (as a vessel or cargo) cannot be repaired or recovered compare constru...
Income statement
Income statement, means a statement of all the revenues, expenses, gains, and losses that a business incurred during a given period, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 768....
Once and for all
Once and for all, the expression 'once and for all' was used to denote an expenditure which is made once and for all for procuring an enduring benefit to the business as distinguished from a recurring expenditure in the nature of operational expenses, CIT v. Coal Shipment (P) Ltd., AIR 1972 SC 541: (1971) 3 SCC 736: (1972) 1 SCR 1089....
Personal expenses
Personal expenses, would include expenses on the person of the assessee or to satisfy his personal needs, such as clothes, food, etc. or purposes not related to the business for which the deduction is claimed, State of Madras v. G.J. Coelho, AIR 1965 SC 321: (1964) 8 SCR 60: (1964) 2 SCJ 400: (1964) 1 SCWR 258: (1964) 53 ILR 186....
Debt
Debt [fr. debitum, Lat.], a sum of money due from one person to another. An action of debt lay where a person claimed the recovery of a liquidated or certain sum of money affirmed to be due to him; and it was generally founded on some contract alleged to have taken place between the parties, or on some matter of fact from which the law would imply a contract between them. This was debt in the debet, which was the principal and only common form. There is another species mentioned in the books, called debt in the detinet, which lay for the specific recovery of goods, under a contract to deliver them. An action of debt as a technical term is now obsolete. See PLEADINGS. The order of the payment of debts and expenses out of legal assets in an ordinary administration action in the Chancery Division of the High Court is as follows:-1. Funeral expenses, which in the case of an insolvent estate must be strictly reasonable and necessary only, the executor or administrator being personally liabl...
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