And the problem is a lot of these companies from like a price basis, from a cost basis are good for consumers.
问题是,从价格基础和成本基础来看,很多这样的公司对消费者都是有利的。
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Then they deduct something. Then they charge more. So they all have their own cost basis that they use, and that's what you see in the wide disparity. None of these numbers have any relationship to reality.
Basis (or cost basis), as used in United States tax law, is the original cost of property, adjusted for factors such as depreciation. When property is sold, the taxpayer pays/(saves) taxes on a capital gain/(loss) that equals the amount realized on the sale minus the sold property's basis.