61.   Paying lawyers, by contrast, is widely viewed as a normal business expense in political and corporate life.

62.   Phone bills, like office supplies and postage, are considered direct business expenses.

63.   Some also have criticized the fact that cigarette makers would be able to count as tax-deductible business expenses many of their penalty payments and annual settlement costs.

64.   So now some of my co-workers get perks like a monthly stipend to offset their business expenses, while others of us just have the old commission structure.

65.   The amounts set aside are not taxed to the employee until disbursed, but are an immediately tax-deductible business expense for the employer.

66.   The business expense gives the American subsidiary a deduction that wipes out taxable profits.

67.   The cost for bribing American border watchers is just another business expense for the cocaine exporters.

68.   The income she receives from a small counseling practice on the side barely pays the bills for the extra phone line and other business expenses.

69.   The IRS has ruled that FPL could not deduct various business expenses and costs for depreciation, research and asbestos removal expenditures.

70.   The IRS has ruled that FPL could not deduct various business expenses and costs for depreciation, research and asbestos removal.