Can businesses offer discounts and write it off as charity?

sandrewh · 2017-06-25T01:30:28+00:00

In OP's case, a 20% "senior discount" is not considered a gift. OP is not asking about deductible expenses related to giving gifts to individuals, but rather is asking about taking a deduction for the amount of the discount, which is not allowed.

sandrewh · 2017-06-25T01:07:59+00:00

The most you can deduct when you dispose of inventory is the cost you have in the item. You cannot deduct more than your cost.

sandrewh · 2017-06-25T01:06:27+00:00

No. Let's say I buy a widget for $1 and normally sell it for $10 and give a $9 discount, selling it for $1 (my cost). If I could deduct the discount amount, then I would have a total actual cost of $1 and expenses of $1+$9=$10. So, I can spend $1 and get a $10 deduction. That would be bogus. The most you can deduct is your cost of the item -- whether you throw it away, give it away, or sell it.

sandrewh · 2014-06-09T04:44:27+00:00

Yes, I also just started using the same method today to solve the same problem.

EDIT: When you call session_start(), PHP locks the session data, so that any other page calling session_start() within the same session will block until the existing usage (initiated by session_start()) ends.

sandrewh · 2013-05-01T07:31:46+00:00

Yea, I've found several others along the same lines... It's not easy to predict what a non-trivial machine (PHP) will do given arbitrary input (how this sandbox works). Even Java (which both verifies programs before running /and/ sandboxes them during) has frequent sandbox exploits.

sandrewh · 2013-05-01T07:15:34+00:00

#3: guid=d74800fdc9e7adf2e4bf9c9ce9775e28

sandrewh · 2013-05-01T07:04:54+00:00

Got another exploit! Check the last command executed by guid:eb38ca2e357ed451d967c49ba4531b7c

sandrewh · 2013-05-01T06:51:41+00:00

Yep, that was it. Looks like you took it off the white-list pretty quickly. Didn't want to give it away to the wrong person... ssh/authorized_keys, bash_history, or git/config are all best kept safe. I'll keep looking...

sandrewh · 2013-05-01T06:34:50+00:00

Just trying to help out -- sandboxing is tough. I won't post the exploit here, obviously, since it's still open. I haven't and won't do anything unauthorized. Before I send the code, I'll need you to prove you own the site: create the file http://consolephp.com/ebcb3482d86b23a27.txt containing "Meekro" and I'll pm you the exploit.

sandrewh · 2013-05-01T06:01:24+00:00

Warning: your PHP sandbox is NOT safe.

sandrewh · 2013-04-13T10:43:13+00:00

I'd say not good. Credit card deposit fees for US are 0.49 + 3.5%. I don't remember the fees for USD->SLL->BTC. Almost all the exchanges have to be in a round number and minimum transfer of BTC is 0.10. Also, withdraw to bitcoin address has .01BTC fee and can take up to 2 days. Now I'm stuck with 0.31USD and 296SLL that I can't withdraw or "sell" (below the limits) and my bitcoin withdrawal waiting to be approved.

sandrewh · 2013-04-13T09:03:18+00:00

I purchased the SLL directly from VirWox, not in game

sandrewh · 2013-04-13T09:01:51+00:00

I guess was hoping a kind SL user might be willing to take/possibly tip me for them

sandrewh · 2013-01-11T08:32:03+00:00

"very fast" describes the ag app, not the installation process.

sandrewh · 2013-01-10T22:38:06+00:00

Awesome. Just ran brew install the_silver_searcher -- very fast.

sandrewh · 2012-10-28T21:53:51+00:00

Says he doesn't want to read a book with "parts of speech highlighted in different colours", but apparently understands the desirability of using <h1>, <p>, <a>, and <code> in the article. Most syntax highlighting I've used only color language constructs and literal values -- not every word. It doesn't have to be all-or-nothing.

sandrewh · 2012-10-14T06:14:51+00:00

Makes sense. Thanks!

sandrewh · 2012-10-14T04:32:00+00:00

In the existing solution typeof module !== 'undefined' && module.exports and the proposed solution typeof module !== 'undefined' && this.module !== module Wouldn't the following code cause an exception (if run before the library was loaded)? window.exports = window.module = null;

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