2 to take away an amount or part from a total:
deduct sth from sth By arrangement with your mortgage holder, you can have them automatically deduct a regular payment from a checking or savings account.
Each week a small amount is deducted from her wages for the pension plan.
Tax and National Insurance contributions are deducted at source, before you receive your salary.
3 to take away the cost of particular things from the amount of money that you have earned, before you pay tax on it:
deduct sth from sth There are many expenses you can deduct from your income before calculating tax.
Indeed, a higher part of their gross income is now deducted for pension systems.
Village officials may deduct labor cost to plant trees on the farmer's program plots.
These data also contain some exceptionally high counts; deducting these high values leaves an average of 6580 cps.
Under existing arrangements, companies paid income tax at the standard rate on all their profits, and the dividends paid to shareholders showed this tax deducted.
To obtain attributable costs, several investigators deducted the lifetime costs of the control group from those of the study group.
Their disposable income had been greatly reduced, because accommodation and service charges were deducted from their (benefit) income.
The rating value was the amount assessed for local taxation, which was calculated by deducting a certain percentage from the rental value.
However, growers generally think of themselves as paying the assessment since, in practice, the assessment is deducted from their payment from the handler.
