Klarinet Archive - Posting 000539.txt from 1998/06

From: Lee Hickling <hickling@-----.Net>
Subj: Re: [kl] deducting lessons $ for a child
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 23:45:01 -0400

David Blumberg wrote:

>I got a call from a future student's parent to sign
>her up for lessons. Upon calling them back, the dad tells me that he wants
>to deduct the cost of the lessons (for 12 yr old) on his income tax, under
>child care! I said to him that it is not possible to deduct the expense,
>............... The guy persisted, saying that if I
>claim the income, I have nothing to worry about. I don't buy that. Seems to
>me like an invitation to trouble.

One thing I don't quite understand. What does he want from you - some kind
of statement or receipt from saying that what he pays you is for child
care? If so, he is bad news. He's trying to make you an accomplice to a
federal offense, and you are quite right to want no part of it.

But if you simply take his cash or check, and declare the income on your
Schedule C correctly, as being from music teaching, you're clean, and it's
nothing to you whether he tries to scam the IRS.

Although, come to think of it, dealing with a cutie like this guy I'd
probably insist on cash, to keep him from entering Child Care later on in
the memo line on his checks, and if he wants a receipt, write him one that
says For Music Lesson, and keep a carbon copy. If he isn't in trouble with
the revenooers already, he probably will be.

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