
Originally Posted by
francesca link=board=6;threadid=6648;start=msg82576#msg82576 date=1078841590
It seems to me like just the fact of working in a strip club would be enough evidence that makeup and clothing purchases in dancer supply shops, nails, hair, etc. is for work purposes!
But that makes too much sense I guess. this IS the IRS we're talking about.
Francesca, The merely logical standard you provide ends up opening a can of worms. Suppose I were a real estate agent or a car sales guy. I have to look nice for the customers. So I should be able to deduct my jacket and pants, and while I am at it, dry cleaning them. Then the garage mechanic wants to deduct his washing his pants which get dirty and the carpenter wants to clean his clothes because he sweat in them. The number of reasonable extensions soon becomes unmangeable, everyone has to hire an accountant an doing taxes becomes expensive or very time consuming and the rates have to go up to produce the same revenue. Not being able to take SOME reasonable expenses is ultimately the cost of having a simpler system.
You, like almost everyone, do not want to pay taxes. Neither do I!! Your only choice is to vote what you believe is that way.
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