Worthless


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Worthless

Describing anything with no substantial value. For example, a stock certificate in a company that has gone bankrupt is almost always worthless.
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The Protecting Students from Worthless Degrees Act will help ensure that federal taxpayer dollars arent spent on programs that wont qualify their graduates for employment in their field of study.
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If a sole proprietor sells goods or services on credit and the account receivable subsequently becomes worthless, a business bad debt deduction is permitted, but only if the income arising from the creation of the receivable was previously included in income (Regs.
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Bilthouse contended that his S&E stock became worthless in 1997, resulting in a complete disposition of his interest in the stock per Sec.
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Taking stock
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Section 165(g)(1) provides that worthless stock deductions
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When it became clear that the employer would be unable to repay the loans, he attempted to deduct the worthless loans as business bad debts.
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