Change accountants. Joy! Elwood Elwood Doss, Jr., M.M.E., RPT Piano Technician/Technical Director Department of Music 145 Fine Arts Building The University of Tennessee at Martin Martin, TN 38238 731/881-1852 FAX: 731/881-7415 HOME: 731/587-5700 ________________________________ From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Tanner Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 2:48 PM To: College and University Technicians Subject: Re: [CAUT] PTG Dues On Jan 7, 2008, at 1:08 PM, Willem Blees wrote: 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. That would make sense, and if you spend enough, that is true. But they are not deductible until the total reaches a certain dollar amount, which to my best recollection was some percentage breakpoint of your overall income. Same basis as deducting health care expenses. I found this out several years ago before I started doing outside work. At the time, it was something like $1800 minimum before it became deductible. The next year I bought my SAT III, and I had enough with that, dues and other tools to qualify for a deduction. But only after I started doing supplementary work that went on a Schedule C would my accountant allow me to deduct tools or PTG dues under whatever that breakpoint was/is. Jeff Jeff Tanner, RPT University of South Carolina -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20080107/bbf4c434/attachment.html
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