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- From: ganek@apollo.hp.com (Dan Ganek)
- Subject: Education Tax Deduction
- Sender: usenet@apollo.hp.com (Usenet News)
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:45:35 GMT
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- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Chelmsford, MA
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- I need some tax filing advice.
-
- My wife is going back to school to get an MBA.
- She quit her management job and is a full-time
- student. This will take about 2 years.
-
- My casual reading of the tax rules suggest that
- her education costs are fully tax deductible.
- First, her profession for the last 5 years was management
- and an MBA is obviously a degree in the same profession.
- She had no formal training in management (she was
- a technical person before switching to management), thus
- an MBA is training directly related to skills improvement
- and career advancement. Since she was a successful manager
- for 5 years the degree can not be considered a prerequisite
- or a requirement for her career.
-
- We both made a good chunk of money this year and a
- large education deduction would be helpful. I plannning
- on deducting tuition, books, and a NeXT computer and SW;
- i.e. about $20-25k. I can already hear the bells ringing
- and see the red lights flashing in Andover, MA :-)
-
- Some questions:
- 1) Is my assessment of the rules reasonable? Or,is there
- some rule that is going to explicitly disallow the
- deduction?
-
- 2) How much flack will we get and when will we get it?
- I don't plan on sending in any supporting evidence
- but I will, of course, keep all receipts. etc. for
- what seems to be the inevitible audit.
-
- 3) Should I nickel and dime the IRS, i.e. deduct every
- possible expense such as commuting and parking expenses?
- Or, should I keep it simple and deduct just the tuition?
-
- /dan ganek
- ganek@apollo.hp.com
-