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What does clawback mean?

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Noun
  1. (US law of evidence) A rule that permits a party to take back evidentiary materials that were mistakenly turned over to the other party but to which the other party would not have been entitled.
  2. (US taxation law) Money that a party is entitled to keep under one tax provision but is taken by another tax provision.
  3. (US, business) Any recovery of a performance-related payment based on discovery that the performance was not genuine.
  4. (obsolete) A flatterer or sycophant.
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It is also subject to a clawback if sold before the expiration of the incentive period.
The property cannot be sold for 10 years after its first letting, in order to avoid government clawback of the tax relief claimed.
The actual investment itself had to be for a period of five years if a clawback of the tax relief is to be avoided.
If the property is sold before the end of this period, it may result in a clawback of the tax relief already granted.
Staff can begin liquidating holdings after three years, but may then be subject to a tax clawback, on a sliding scale.
However, the Revenue then started a harsh clawback of the money that had supposedly been written off.

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