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Well, you might be able to, I'm not sure. In the business world, you are allowed to deduct uniforms for work (like a pizza hut shirt) but you are not allowed to deduct say, a suit, because you are able to wear it outside of work.
To me, this says you can deduct your stripper shoes and stripper outfits that you could not plausibly wear outside of work, but I'm not sure about the others.
Regardless, it doesn't exactly work the way you are thinking it does. It's not like if you spend $100 on a dress then you get exactly $100 off your taxes. It gets deducted from your income that gets taxed. So if you made 30,000, you would only pay taxes on 29,900 of it.
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You can proably deduct it, but A.N. is right you can't deduct stuff you can use or would use anyway....like shampoo, or conditioner, or hair cuts because you would foresably need a hair cut if you were or not a stripper....but some girls do write off tanning, so blow outs are probably okay.
Also like AN said, it doesnt end up being that huge of a savings to you and the more you report the more attentin you are calling to yourself.
If you're writing a lot of stuff off , you better be claiming a good amount on your taxes too. Like for instance don't try to write off 5000 dollars in expenses if youre only reporting you made 30000 dollars




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^^^ the IRS uses the 'housewife test' to disqualify any business expense tax deduction for items that a 'housewife' would also spend money on. Their rationale is that if a 'housewife' would buy it with absolutely no business purpose in mind, then the value of the item is personal and thus not deductible as a business expense. 'Housewives' don't usually buy gowns, but they sure buy bras and panties !




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Last edited by Nuclear Martini; 01-20-2022 at 06:32 AM.
yeah, but i sure as hell wouldn't wear a spandex clip-away thong around the house or out to my day-job. And the bras I wear outside of work better have a bit more support......
Christ, I must have spent well over $500 on clothes and accessories. I only have receipts for a couple items. Can I still deduct them?
Won't this only help if you are itemizing. A standard deduction could be better. It just depends on what you make.










Schedule C. This is where you report your business income and deduct your business expenses. Businesses are taxed on a net basis. Unlike individuals who are taxed on gross income with a few deductions and exemptions.
Here is how your stripping should work if you are not incorporated or a LLC. On schedule C you report all your stripping income. (Tough to do without good records, but still it's the law.) Most strip clubs maintain that the dancers are independent contractors so schedule C is the only place to report. Total all your income from stripping. From income, you subtract the cost of goods sold. (This applies to physical things you sell, not services like dances.) So, if you sell panties, bras, pictures, you subtract the cost of those from your top line income. After a few minor additions for other income, you have Gross Income.
Then, you take your expenses. This is where you deduct your costumes, fees, travel, theatrical makeup office expenses, wages, whatever you can justify. Then you total all your expenses.
Take your expenses and subtract them from Gross Income. That is the number you put on your personal tax return for "Business Income." Business expenses are never deductions captured on Schedule A. Schedule A is for personal expenses and is very limited.
Thus, even if you do not itemize your personal deductions, you still get to take all your business deductions.
Here is a simple example:
Joan the stripper and part time retail clerk, one child, no husband.
Joan's retail job pays her $10,000 a year. Joan's stripping pays her $20,000 a year. Stripping has associated expenses, let's say tip outs (fees) $3,000, costumes $2,000, professional services $500 and travel (she goes out of town a couple of times a year to dance at big conventions) $500.
In addition, Joan owns a paid off Honda Accord and rents an apartment. Because she works odd hours at the mall and dances, she has her kid in daycare and pays $2,000 a year for that. Because Joan does not have a mortgage or real estate to pay lots of property taxes on, she does not have enough personal deductions to utilize schedule A, so she will take her standard deduction. More about that later.
On her tax return, she reports wages on line 7 of $10,000. On line 12 she reports schedule C income of $14,000. ($20,000 minus her tipouts, costumes, travel and professional services.) Assuming no other additions to income, for example interest or dividends, she totals lines 7 and 12 for an adjusted gross inome of $24,000. Then, she takes the standard deduction deduction (for 2007 it was $7,550 for a head of household). Next she takes her exemptions, one for herself and one for her daughter. (In 2007 each exemption was worth $3,300.) That gives Joan her taxable income of $9,850. Because she earned schedule C income Joan will have to figure her self employment tax (social security) and her ordinary income tax. But, that's why she paid the professional fee for an accountant to take care of all that. Once she figures the taxes, she will get the child care tax credit. (It's a credit not a deduction.)
Next, she will get credit for all the taxes withheld by her retail employer. Finally, we get to a bottom line number of tax either owed, or refunded.
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