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- Date: 30 Dec 92 22:05 PST
- Subject: Re: deductability of a home PC used for
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- |I am about to purchase a low-end 486 PC, to be used
- |almost exclusively for home education programs for
- |my oldest daughter and for typesetting my dissertation
- |and other papers. Is there a chance that I can deduct
- |the cost of the PC (and perhaps educational software)
- |as an educational expense? The answer to this affects
- |whether I buy it in the next few days or wait (a few
- |more) until 1993. Thanks for any tips!
- |Dave Bakken Internet: bakken@cs.arizona.edu
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- If the dissertation is in connection with education intended to improve
- skills in your present job, you can include the portion of the cost of
- the PC attributable to this use among your itemized expenses. The
- daughter's portion of the cost isn't deductible. As a practical matter,
- I think you'd have considerable latitude determining how to apportion
- this. In general, money spent to enhance present earnings is
- deductible, with limitations, against those earnings. DMcKenzie
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- | mcaldon@igc.org | Opinions dispensed herein not guaranteed |
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