overdefer

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To defer a larger amount than one should.

   • Thus it is important to be realistic about the supposed revenue loss, because very quickly estate planners would become realistic and would stop overdeferring their client's taxes.
   • If the tax planner overdefers expenses into a later year, the taxpayer may be in an AMT position in that year since the regular tax will be significantly impacted by the additional deductions.
   • Employees who will overdefer because 1997 has 27 paydays will have their deductions decreased automatically by WDC.
2. 2

   To be overly deferential.

   • The analysis overdefers to government regulation and it understates the power of existing risk controls.
   • There are occasions when consumers are overdeferred to for the sake of more business.
   • More troublingly, the history above strongly suggests that these structural biases in fact routinely pushed courts to overdefer to police judgment.

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