At 03:10 PM 6/24/05, Leslie Bartlett wrote: >I'm interested in learning how many tuners use hearing aids. I just started >such a month or two ago. My audiologist thinks my problem goes back years, >probably before I took my tuning test, so I've been compensating without >them........... But there is a "necessary and ordinary" clause if one is >to take such things as business expenses.......... The more techs who use >them, the more "ordinary" it becomes. Hi Leslie, Just my opinion but I'd say an electronic tuning aid is just that and is probably deductible. The main indicator would probably be whether or not you use it all the time or just mainly in your profession. It most likely falls under the same requirements as corrective lenses______________ those used mainly in conducting business are deductible; those used to lead a more normal life are not (not business deductions anyway). I don't use hearing aids (yet... knock on wood) and I use ear plugs as often as possible to try and postpone what is probably inevitable for many of us but I know the day is probably coming when I'll have similar questions of my own. Hang in there! Regards, Alan B. Crane, RPT School of Music Wichita State University alan.crane@wichita.edu
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