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Section 162(a) of the Internal Revenue Code allows for taxpayers to deduct from their gross income [1] ordinary and necessary expenses paid or incurred in carrying on a trade or business. Taxpayers seeking to minimize the size of their gross income for tax purposes have a strong incentive to deduct as much as possible from their pre-tax income.
It is one of the most important provisions in the Code, because it is the most widely used authority for deductions. [1] If an expense is not deductible, then Congress considers the cost to be a consumption expense. Section 162(a) requires six different elements in order to claim a deduction. It must be an 1) ordinary 2) and necessary 3) expense
Commissioner v. Flowers, 326 U.S. 465 (1946), was a Federal income tax case before the Supreme Court of the United States. [1] The Court held that in order to deduct the expense of traveling under § 162 of the Internal Revenue Code, the expense must be incurred while away from home, and must be a reasonable expense necessary or appropriate to the development and pursuit of a trade or business.
The applicable sections of the Tax Code are §§ 162 and 262. [7] These sections must always be looked at together, because § 162 generally allows a deduction for ordinary and necessary expenses incurred in a trade or business while § 262 disallows deductions for all personal, living, or family expenses.
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These expenses may only be deducted, however, to the extent they exceed 10% (7.5 % for 65 and over) of a taxpayer's AGI. [1] Accordingly, a taxpayer would only be entitled to deduct the amount by which these expenses exceed 10% of $100,000, or $10,000 with an adjusted gross income of $100,000 and medical expenses of $11,000.