[pianotech] no shows/ tax relief

[G Cousins]

Hmmmm. Interesting question. ALthough I am not an accountant/legal type I would guess IF you could justify the cost to expense to deduction you should be able to get away with it.

Having gone through a couple of total IRS "full audits" in my carreer, i would say that you should be safe with the procedure. My accountatn used to justify some of the deductions with the rationalization that "If they are digging that deep into a return then you're probably up the creek with no paddle"  I ofter default to K.I.S.

Gerry C

 

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From: Ayerspiano at aol.com
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:28:40 -0500
Subject: Re: [pianotech] no shows/ tax relief





In a message dated 2009-02-23 21:20 Eastern Standard Time, 
cousins_gerry at msn.com writes:

 

If all 
else fails just take it as a write off/business expense.  I used to put 
it under the heading of Advertising expenses on my 1040 return or justify it 
as donated services.

Hope this helps.
Gerry C

 

Gerry,
 

Can you apply the same thinking to no shows in general  
? 

 

I've tried in the past to bill for a no show with just a simple 
gas charge but never got satisfaction.  People most of the time call up 
that night either extremely apologetic or have some kind of legitimate 
serious excuse,  but the few that never respond ?  I'm just as 
happy to never see them again,, but  I'd love to be able to 
write the appointment off as an expense.   
 

T, Ayers
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