Hmmmm. Interesting question. ALthough I am not an accountant/legal type I would guess IF you could justify the cost to expense to deduction you should be able to get away with it. Having gone through a couple of total IRS "full audits" in my carreer, i would say that you should be safe with the procedure. My accountatn used to justify some of the deductions with the rationalization that "If they are digging that deep into a return then you're probably up the creek with no paddle" I ofter default to K.I.S. Gerry C --Forwarded Message Attachment-- From: Ayerspiano at aol.com To: pianotech at ptg.org Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:28:40 -0500 Subject: Re: [pianotech] no shows/ tax relief In a message dated 2009-02-23 21:20 Eastern Standard Time, cousins_gerry at msn.com writes: If all else fails just take it as a write off/business expense. I used to put it under the heading of Advertising expenses on my 1040 return or justify it as donated services. Hope this helps. Gerry C Gerry, Can you apply the same thinking to no shows in general ? I've tried in the past to bill for a no show with just a simple gas charge but never got satisfaction. People most of the time call up that night either extremely apologetic or have some kind of legitimate serious excuse, but the few that never respond ? I'm just as happy to never see them again,, but I'd love to be able to write the appointment off as an expense. T, Ayers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090224/20d2c5e3/attachment.html>
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