Template:Withholding and deduction pedantry: Difference between revisions

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(Created page with "Happy news, readers: we have a report from the front lines in the battle between substance and form. The JC asked no lesser a tax ninja than {{plainlink|https://twitter.com/DanNeidle|Dan Neidle}} — quietly, the JC is a bit of a fan — the following question: {{quote|In the statement, “X may make a deduction or withholding from any payment for or on account of any tax” is there any difference between...")
 
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{{quote|I don’t think there’s a difference. Arguably it’s done for clarity, because people normally say “withholding tax” but technically there’s no such thing — it’s a deduction of income tax.}}
{{quote|I don’t think there’s a difference. Arguably it’s done for clarity, because people normally say “withholding tax” but technically there’s no such thing — it’s a deduction of income tax.}}


Which is good enough for me. So all of that “shall be entitled to make a [[deduction or withholding]] from any payment which it makes pursuant to this agreement [[for or on account of]] any [[Tax]]” can be scattered to the four winds.
Which is good enough for me. So all of that “shall be entitled to make a [[deduction or withholding]] from any payment which it makes pursuant to this agreement [[for or on account of]] any [[Tax]]” can be scattered to the four winds. Henceforth the JC is going with: 
{{quote|X may deduct Tax from any payment it makes under this Agreement.}}

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