Crazy Tax Deductions: 10 Claims That Didn't Quite Fly

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Tax deduction traps
Tax deduction traps

By Peter Blank, Editor, The Kiplinger Tax Letter

Over the years, taxpayers have concocted a lot of zany arguments to justify tax deductions. We've come up with what we think are the 10 most creative ones that the tax courts decided didn't quite pass muster.

As secret agent Maxwell Smart would say, "Missed it by that much!"


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