Entries by Raffensperger Martin Finkenbiner RMF

No touchdown for this coach

“Ordinary and necessary” expenses incurred in the pursuit of a trade or business are generally deductible. But in one case, most of the expenses claimed by a married couple were denied. The husband, a high school coordinator and coach, failed to prove that costs for meals, telephone, seminars, software, “student motivation” and more were business […]

Travel deductions denied

Taxpayers traveling “away from home” can deduct ordinary and necessary expenses incurred in a trade or business. But when nonresident alien students at foreign universities, who participated in a summer work-travel program, deducted travel costs to and from the U.S. and certain living expenses while here, the IRS denied the deductions. The U.S. Tax Court […]