I've heard that a trip must be at least half business in order to qualify for a deduction. So if you tune Aunt Sally's piano on your week-long vacation, you can't claim business deductions for any of your trip. -- JF On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Tom Driscoll <tomtuner at verizon.net> wrote: > Matt, > I asked my preparer that question some years ago and he advised that I > would be asking for trouble if they took a close look. A dedicated trip that > is business related is deductable , but if that trip entails costs for more > than yourself for more days that the task requires and includes deductions > for activities not related to the task it could raise a question . > I had seen one of these TV financial programs where it was suggested that > a vacation could be deducted if you went on a job interview and my guy --who > by the way can be quite creative whilst staying within the rules-- said NO ! > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100118/38e4d4e6/attachment.htm>
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