‘Tis the Season to be Taxed
In honor of the ongoing tax season - and my procrastination with regard to filing my own taxes - I spent a few moments today perusing lists of humorous nuggets about the world’s weirdest tax write-offs.
I think one of the funniest, perhaps not as weird as the rest, was the one about a married couple who were in a meeting with their accountant. Quite innocently, the accountant asked, “What about the mortgage interest deduction for the condo in Utah?” Turns out the husband had a secret condo where he had set up his mistress. Talk about a whoops moment!
Or take the Manhattan man who was low on dough … and something else entirely.
“He had made some money being a sperm donor and wanted to know if he could take a depletion allowance,” the accountant recalled. “I told him he really needed to be an oil well or something like that.”
Check out some more odd write-offs at Third Age and AOL Money & Finance, and happy tax season, everyone.


