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Tax Season Quiz: Which Item on This Receipt Is a Deductible Medical Expense?

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Caleb Newquist

This comes from a tax professional in the throes of a hectic day. Personally, I’m stumped.

So we’ve got:

A) Feminine hygiene products
B) Starkist Tuna
C) Orbit gum

Arguments for any or all are now being heard.

Posted in TaxTagged 1040, Medical expenses, probably won't see this on the CPA exam, Schedule A, Tax season

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Considering the tone of Joe Stack’s manifesto, you’d think common courtesy would have been abandoned ages ago. Not necessarily so:

Perhaps it was a more sinister “have a great day” than we’re imagining, although the jig would have been up if he had given any indication about his plans (e.g. read the manifesto to air traffic control).

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(UPDATE 2) Bernie Sanders Didn’t Convince Too Many People (Pretty Much No One!)

  • Caleb Newquist
  • December 14, 2010

~ Update includes clarification on vote tally and addition to first paragraph. ~ Update 2 includes finally vote tally.

Despite Friday’s epic speech by Bernie Sanders, the Senate passed elected to finish debate on the tax cut/unemployment compromise this afternoon to set up the final vote before it moves on to the House.


At 4:12 ET, the vote was 62-7 with Sanders, Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Russ Feingold (D-WI), Tom Udall (D-NM) (CSPAN originally showed Tom as voting “no” and has now disappeared), Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), Kirsten Gillabrand (D-NY) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) voting “no.”

If you’ve got nothing better to do, you can watch the live feed here.

UPDATE, circa 5:00: Vote is 73-10 with John Ensign (R-NV), Mark Udall (D-CO), Kay Hagan, (D-NC), Carl Levin (D-MI) voting “no.”

UPDATE 2, circa 6:30: Finally vote of 83-15.

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