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- <text id=89TT2321>
- <title>
- Sep. 04, 1989: Business Notes:Taxes
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Sep. 04, 1989 Rock Rolls On:Rolling Stones
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 53
- Business Notes
- TAXES
- One Gloat Over the Line
- </hdr><body>
- <p> His excesses have become so routine that few people were
- shocked when publishing tycoon Malcolm Forbes flew 600 guests to
- Morocco for a $2 million "party of the century" to celebrate his
- 70th birthday. But many taxpayers were outraged to hear Forbes
- suggest in a comment to reporters that he might try to claim a
- deduction for some of the party's expenses. His rationale: the
- guests included advertisers in his business magazine.
- </p>
- <p> In the end, the publisher, perhaps smelling a gust of bad
- publicity, declared that "not a penny" would be deducted. But he
- straight-facedly maintained that a "case could be made" for
- writing off part of the fete, which included 600 belly dancers.
- Said Forbes: "I would say, 95% of it's business-related."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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