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bad debt |
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bad debt a professional fee that is owed but is not recoverable by the normal procedure of submitting three accounts at one month intervals and rendered from the veterinarian's office. A bad debt must be written off as a loss or placed in the hands of a professional debt collector or a solicitor to collect. If bad debts exceed 2% of the gross income the management of the practice should be investigated. |
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The inference is that, had the taxpayer specifically identified an allowance account (or portion thereof) as offsetting the bad debt in question--as in Brandtjen & Kluge, Inc. It is far more expensive to write off a bad debt than it is to pay for trade credit insurance, which generally costs less than 1 percent of sales, according to research from Marsh. said its fourth-quarter charges may exceed $1 billion and its loss from continuing operations will widen from the third quarter because of bad debt. |
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