Anyone ever deducted cost of a trip on your taxes?
Ohioguy
taxes? If so, I want to hear from you!
My wife and I will soon be taking a cruise out of Puerto Rico, on the
Caribbean Princess. Including the airfare, this will be our single
biggest cost of the entire year.
Now that everything is set up, I find myself wondering if there is
any way to write off some of the costs on our taxes. I write for a
magazine, and the editor just asked me to write a couple of articles
with a rather short deadline. The articles are due soon after the
cruise, which means that I've already started doing the footwork.
However, I may need to do the bulk of the writing on the cruise itself -
when I have time to write without the normal distractions of changing
diapers, cleaning up pencil marks on the walls, etc., etc.
I'm wondering if this is even a possibility, or not. Thanks for any
of your thoughts!
Rod Speed
Not.
> Thanks for any of your thoughts!
Even fantasys about gunning down the Pope ?
Mrs Irish Mike
Better to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission. Try it and
see. Don't deduct the entire crusie, just the time you spend working,
that way you weren't cheating just didn't understand the
interpretation.
Back when the top tax rate was above 80%, many people would spend
money just because it was such a deal with the tax break. Clothing for
work with the tax deduction could mean 80% off. Martinis were real
cheap if work was discussed during the drinking. I believe high taxes
spurred alot of spending.
Mrs Irish Mike
/> Not.
>
> > Thanks for any of your thoughts!
>
> Even fantasys about gunning down the Pope ?
The ramblings of a drug addled mind, deprived of suffecient oxygen
housed in the body of a "fuckwit".
The Henchman
"Ohioguy" wrote in message news:4d1b7002$0$5022$882e...@usenet-news.net...
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Keep in mind that you "could" be asking for advice on how to claim
fraudulent expenses.
If you get greedy, those computers that are programmed to weed out greedy
people will alert humans paid to visit greedy tax filers.
If you have to ask how to write off large expenses that you rarely ever in
your tax history write off then you need to make sure it's not fraudulent
and that there is a very easy paper trail to prove you are not being
fraudulent.
Lou
"Ohioguy" <no...@none.net> wrote in message
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Maybe I could see it if you were doing a piece about cruising on this
particular vessel for a travel magazine, and even then I'm not sure. But
most articles can probably be written just about anywhere, and perhaps more
easily from a location with net access to facilitate any necessary research.
Tell us, have you written off the cost of the computer you write your
articles on? (Or typewriter, or legal pad and pencil, whatever it is you
use) How about the chair you sit on while writing? The table your computer
(or whatever sits on while you write? The electricity to light the room you
write in? The heat and air conditioning for that room? How about the
clothes you wear while writing, or the food you eat? Assuming you write and
submit your work from a computer, do you write off your net access?
If some of those examples seem silly, how do you think it would look when
you claim that . . .
surrounding yourself with hundreds of miles of ocean,
with constant access to a variety of as much food and drink as you can
consume,
parties every evening,
shows every evening,
amused by scuba diving, rum distilleries, sight seeing, submarine rides, or
whatever shore excursions strike your fancy,
. . . was a reasonable and necessary expense of writing the articles?
If you want to pursue this course, I'd suggest that you consult a legitimate
tax advisor first, and follow the advice you get (no shopping around until
you find someone who will give you the advice you want). Possibly the cost
of that advice will end up being more than any possible tax savings, but
that's not the point.
h
> Have any of you ever successfully deducted the cost of a trip on your
> taxes? If so, I want to hear from you!
>
> My wife and I will soon be taking a cruise out of Puerto Rico, on the
> Caribbean Princess. Including the airfare, this will be our single
> biggest cost of the entire year.
>
> Now that everything is set up, I find myself wondering if there is
> any way to write off some of the costs on our taxes. I write for a
> magazine, and the editor just asked me to write a couple of articles
> with a rather short deadline. The articles are due soon after the
> cruise, which means that I've already started doing the footwork.
> However, I may need to do the bulk of the writing on the cruise itself -
> when I have time to write without the normal distractions of changing
> diapers, cleaning up pencil marks on the walls, etc., etc.
>
> I'm wondering if this is even a possibility, or not. Thanks for any
> of your thoughts!
Sure, it's a possibility. It's called tax fraud, you tax evading cheat! Are
you ever willing to pay your fair share of taxes?
a real cheapskate
>
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well a group I used to belong too has a annual cruise / trip to exotic
locations, the group NSSEA, national school supply equiptement
association.
The entire cruise is tax deductible with meetings training etc, that
meet IRS rules. one year they went to the filming location of blue
lagoon, a resort rather than a cruise. all perfectly tax deductible.
so yes it is if you follow the rules
Ohioguy
> articles on? (Or typewriter, or legal pad and pencil, whatever it is you
No, but I may write off the cost of the next one I build. Currently,
I just deduct the cost of a digital camera every year or two, because I
am required to have a decent, working digital camera in order to take
photos for the magazine articles I write. I don't want to take a chance
of the camera conking out on me, so I like to keep a relatively new one.
Sounds like the only way to legitimately write off the cost of
something like this is for it to be a business trip. I'll look into the
possibility of writing an article from the perspective of a first time
cruiser, and then shop it around to the local papers & regional
magazines. If I sell it, then I'll have a check to prove that the trip
was required for the article I wrote, and payment I received.
Dan Birchall
> Have any of you ever successfully deducted the cost of a trip on your
> taxes? If so, I want to hear from you!
If your job sends you away from the area in which you usually work, some
costs legitimately incurred while traveling for work are deductible.
See http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc511.html
> My wife and I will soon be taking a cruise out of Puerto Rico...
> ... I may need to do the bulk of the writing on the cruise itself -
> when I have time to write without the normal distractions of changing
> diapers, cleaning up pencil marks on the walls, etc., etc.
Your wife sounds rather... young. ;)
> I'm wondering if this is even a possibility, or not. Thanks for any
> of your thoughts!
Unless the writing you are doing requires you to make this trip (i.e. the
magazine has told you to write an article about this particular cruise
offering, this particular cruise company, or at the very least, cruises
in the Caribbean in general), it's probably not a possibility. And even
if it does, I don't think you could deduct the cost of taking your wife
along.
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The Real Bev
> no...@none.net (Ohioguy) wrote:
>> Have any of you ever successfully deducted the cost of a trip on your
>> taxes? If so, I want to hear from you!
>
> If your job sends you away from the area in which you usually work, some
> costs legitimately incurred while traveling for work are deductible.
> See http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc511.html
>
>> My wife and I will soon be taking a cruise out of Puerto Rico...
>> ... I may need to do the bulk of the writing on the cruise itself -
>> when I have time to write without the normal distractions of changing
>> diapers, cleaning up pencil marks on the walls, etc., etc.
>
> Your wife sounds rather... young. ;)
:-) !!!
>> I'm wondering if this is even a possibility, or not. Thanks for any
>> of your thoughts!
>
> Unless the writing you are doing requires you to make this trip (i.e. the
> magazine has told you to write an article about this particular cruise
> offering, this particular cruise company, or at the very least, cruises
> in the Caribbean in general), it's probably not a possibility. And even
> if it does, I don't think you could deduct the cost of taking your wife
> along.
Can she type? A secretary/editor/administrative assistant is ALWAYS
essential for <cough> creative types.
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Cheers, Bev
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