How to Use nondeductible in a Sentence

nondeductible

adjective
  • After 2025, the cost of the types of meals will be nondeductible.
    — Tom Cooney and Crystal Faulkner, Cincinnati.com, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Be careful, since tax changes in effect since 2018 can make fees nondeductible.
    — Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
  • George had been making nondeductible contributions for all those years.
    — Arthur McPherson, Forbes, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Rents rose as landlords refused to pay their mortgage interest with nondeductible cash.
    — Dan Palmer and David Williams, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2021
  • That won't be the case anymore, and any costs for tax preparation will be nondeductible in 2018.
    — Dan Caplinger, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2017
  • There are other ways to turn nondeductible political donations into ones that are.
    — Laura Saunders, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2022
  • In such cases, the investor would just let contributions stay in the nondeductible IRA.
    — Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Those states had passed laws that used tax credits to turn nondeductible tax payments into deductible charitable contributions.
    — Richard Rubin, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2018
  • Dell had feared that provision could have rendered all of its interest nondeductible, according to the person familiar with the matter.
    — Michael Rapoport and Rachael King, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2017
  • In response, companies must spend ample sums of nondeductible money for security and cash-handling services.
    — Rolling Stone, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The transaction is considered to include a pro rata portion of the nondeductible contributions.
    — Bob Carlson, Forbes, 18 May 2021
  • Under that calculation, the cost of maintaining reserved parking spots for employees is taxed for nonprofits or nondeductible for for-profits.
    — Laura Saunders, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2018
  • Although the 2017 change in the tax law made more payments to the government nondeductible, payments of restitution are generally still fair game for tax write-offs.
    — Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Roth conversions transfer pretax or nondeductible IRA funds to a Roth IRA to start tax-free growth.
    — Kate Dore, Cfp®, Ea, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The nondeductible contributions only represent about 1 percent of the total.
    — Syndicated Columns, OregonLive.com, 24 Dec. 2017
  • Now imagine that Congress enacted the border adjustment, making payments for imports nondeductible.
    — Alex Raskolnikov, Foreign Affairs, 24 May 2017
  • Accounts are typically set up at mutual-fund companies, brokerage firms or banks by parents and grandparents, who then make nondeductible cash contributions to the accounts.
    — Leonard Sloane, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2020
  • This form is essential for reporting nondeductible contributions to your IRA and tracking the basis of your conversions.
    — Jessica Ledingham, J.d., Ll.m., Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
  • However, this limit could be bypassed by making a nondeductible IRA contribution and converting it to a Roth.
    — Leon Labrecque, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
  • The strategy transfers your pretax or nondeductible IRA funds to a Roth IRA to kickstart future tax-free growth.
    — Kate Dore, Cfp®, Ea, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Roth conversions transfer pretax or nondeductible IRA funds to a Roth IRA, which kickstarts future tax-free growth.
    — Kate Dore, Cfp®, Ea, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2025
  • That means any nondeductible contributions (after-tax money) in a traditional IRA cannot be used to make QCDs.
    — Bob Carlson, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • Roth conversions transfer pretax or nondeductible individual retirement account funds to a Roth IRA, which starts future tax-free growth.
    — Kate Dore, Cfp®, Ea, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Just remember that any incidental personal travel within the trip — visiting family or taking a side trip, for example — are nondeductible personal expenses.
    — Brian Thompson, Forbes, 7 May 2021
  • One of the biggest gifts to Humana and other larger health insurers in 2020 has been the permanent repeal of a nondeductible tax to fund part of the federal Affordable Care Act.
    — Grace Schneider, The Courier-Journal, 1 Mar. 2017
  • But indirectly, anyone could make a nondeductible contribution to a traditional IRA then convert this after-tax contribution to a Roth to ensure that future earnings grow tax-free.
    — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 10 Oct. 2021
  • Until that year, lawmakers had granted a deduction for almost all these taxes, carving out just a few nondeductible exceptions (such as estate, inheritance, and gift taxes, which lawmakers made nondeductible in 1934).
    — Joseph Thorndike, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • While specific audits of social media influencers for nondeductible lifestyle expenses are not publicly documented due to confidentiality, there are common areas where influencers may face scrutiny from tax authorities.
    — Kaitlin Newkirk, The Conversation, 5 Mar. 2025

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