Jeff 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. Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT Piano Tuner/Technician Honolulu, HI Author of The Business of Piano Tuning available from Potter Press www.pianotuning.com -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Tanner <jtanner at mozart.sc.edu> To: College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org> Sent: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 7:39 am Subject: Re: [CAUT] PTG Dues On Jan 4, 2008, at 10:40 AM, Elwood Doss wrote: Writing it off your income tax is certainly a good way to do this.? 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. Jeff Jeff Tanner, RPT University of South Carolina = ________________________________________________________________________ More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20080107/ea9bbf10/attachment.html
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