useful expenditure

useful expenditure
   a bribe
   True, we might suppose, if it lands you the contract:
    A German who bribes a French official in an EU-wide open tender procedure cannot be prosecuted in Germany and the bribe can be written off against tax. Such costs on the tax form are called nuetzliche Ausgaben — 'useful expenditures'. {Sunday Telegraph, 20 January 1997)

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