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What are expenses?

Glossary definition

What are expenses?

In business, expenses are the money spent or costs incurred in a company’s efforts to generate revenue.

This could be in the form of expenditure such as salaries or supplier payments.

Businesses can write off tax-deductible expenses on income tax to lower tax income and tax liability. There will be strict rules on what expenses businesses can claim.

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