tax benefit rule

tax benefit rule
tax benefit rule n: a tax rule requiring that if an amount (as of a loss) used as a deduction in a prior taxable year is recovered in a later year it must be included in the gross income for the later year to the extent of the original deduction
◇ If the amount of the loss was not taken as a deduction in the year the loss occurred, the recovered amount is not counted as income.

Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. . 1996.

tax benefit rule
n.
A rule stating that an amount deducted in an earlier year but then recovered in a later year is to be included in the income of the later year.

The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. . 2008.

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