New IRS Rules Give Businesses 100% Tax Deduction on Big Truck Purchases This Year. May 16, 2011. 1. While the Obama Administration is pushing for a 62-mpg CAFE regulation, promoting small, green cars, the IRS has a plan to get owners of businesses behind the wheel of a gas guzzling behemoth.
Only two species in the genus Bos used for work are called oxenâBos indicus (Zebu-type cattle with humps) and Bos taurus, the European breeds (no humps). To define the word ox as encompassing all animals in the bovine family would include a lot of species that are not even domesticated.
ox. n, pl oxen (ËÉksÉn). 1. (Animals) an adult castrated male of any domesticated species of cattle, esp Bos taurus, used for draught work and meat. 2. (Animals) any bovine mammal, esp any of the domestic cattle. large steer used as a draft animal. Oxen were used much earlier than horses for agricultural work, and when they began to lose substantial ground to horses is not clear. In North American colonial times, cattle were more valued for draft purposes than as a source of meat.