Can a Traveling Steamfitter Deduct Meals and Lodging? What the Tax Court Decided
From TORQUE & TAPE — The Blue-Collar Skills Guide · 19:01
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James Harwood, a union steamfitter from Yakima, Washington, spent eighty-five nights in a Boardman, Oregon, motel in early twenty sixteen. His credit card statements show four thousand three hundred twenty-four dollars paid to that motel. The Internal Revenue Service told him he owed five thousand eight hundred eighty-five dollars in extra tax for that year. The agency had disallowed most of the work expenses he claimed. Can a tradesman who follows the work deduct his…
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