1.   The company deducted this payment from his compensation.

2.   Among the proposals is a provision that would allow companies to deduct from their taxes losses incurred even in profitable lines of business.

3.   Because companies could no longer deduct the cost of health and life insurance, they may stop offering all but retirement benefits.

4.   Companies can also deduct wages paid to consultants, as business expenses.

5.   Corporate executives had argued that requiring companies to deduct the value of the options from earnings would wipe out the profits of small and growing companies.

6.   From revenue, the company deducts all of its expenses, with a few exceptions.

7.   However, oil companies can still deduct foreign royalties from U.S. taxes.

8.   In the more typical preferred stock deals, companies cannot deduct the dividends they pay, and investors in the preferred stock owe taxes on the dividends they receive.

9.   Like bonds, companies can deduct dividend payments on securities from their taxes.

10.   Some nations still allow companies to deduct foreign bribes from their taxes.