What is that? Is that a new lamp?
Yeah, I'm thinking of bringing home-ware into the store, so that's a write off.
That's a write off? Do you even know what a write off is?
Uh yeah, it's when you buy something for your business and the government pays you back for it.
Oh, and who pays for it?
Nobody, you write it off.
Who writes it off?!
I don't know, the govern-- the "write off" people! Why are we having this conversation?
So if I need booze to get through my day, I can just write that off?
That's a stretch.
But the skin care products you got this morning, those are a write off?
What skin care products? You purchased skin care products?!
Okay, okay. I am the face of the company. If I have acne, what does that say about the legitimacy of the store?
[gesturing] That's not a write off! That's not a write off! This?! Not a write off!
Oh, well, the bedding's non refundable, so...
David, a write off... is a business expense used to reduce your taxable income!
Okay, well then why isn't it called a "tax write off?"
[yelling] It is!
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