<div>Jeff<br> <br> IF your only source of income is working for someone else, and you are required by your employer to belong to a trade organization, and/or your employer requires you to purchase your own tools to do your work, then they are deductible. <br> </div> <div style="CLEAR: both">Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT<br> Piano Tuner/Technician<br> Honolulu, HI<br> Author of <br> The Business of Piano Tuning<br> available from Potter Press<br> www.pianotuning.com</div> <br> <br> -----Original Message-----<br> From: Jeff Tanner <jtanner@mozart.sc.edu><br> To: College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org><br> Sent: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 7:39 am<br> Subject: Re: [CAUT] PTG Dues<br> <br> <div id=AOLMsgPart_2_939f81cb-a188-4003-8703-cb53c75962d7><br> <div> <div>On Jan 4, 2008, at 10:40 AM, Elwood Doss wrote:</div> <BR class=Apple-interchange-newline> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 16px 'Times New Roman'; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0"><A name=_MailEndCompose><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: rgb(31,73,125); FONT-FAMILY: Calibri, sans-serif">Writing it off your income tax is certainly a good way to do this. </SPAN></A></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></div> <br> <div>Just remember that you can only write it off your income tax if you are self employed.  If you are an employee only and do not do work that must be reported on Schedule C, organizational dues are NOT income tax deductible, nor are tools up to some fairly sizeable percentage of income.</div> <div><BR class=webkit-block-placeholder></div> <div>Jeff</div> <br> <br> <div><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 12px Helvetica; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; border-spacing: 0px 0px; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto"> <div>Jeff Tanner, RPT</div> <div>University of South Carolina</div> <div><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></div> <BR class=Apple-interchange-newline></SPAN></div> <br> = </div> <div class="AOLPromoFooter"> <hr style="margin-top:10px;" /> More new features than ever. Check out the new <a href="http://o.aolcdn.com/cdn.webmail.aol.com/mailtour/aol/en-us/text.htm?ncid=aolcmp00050000000003" target="_blank">AOL Mail</a>!<br/> </div>