"prune" <sophisblu[at]yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid> wrote

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Uhhhh, no.

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Paul A. Thomas, CPA
Athens, Georgia

"prune" <sophisblu[at]yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid> wrote:

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No

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David M. Woods, EA, ChFC, CLU
Woods Financial Services
Norwood, MA 02062
www.woods-financial.com

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prune <sophisblu[at]yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid> wrote:

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This sounds like a personal expense to me. Even if you were
taking driving lessons to gain a commercial drivers license,
you would be qualifying for a new trade or business. Now, if
you already had a job that required you to drive and your
employer wanted you to take advanced lessons as a condition of
continued employment, they would be deductible as an employee
business expense.

Unfortunately, you would have to be able to itemize deductions
to take this and it must exceed 2% of your AGI. Most likely,
no benefit.

All freely provided advice guarantee correct or double your
money back

Frank S. Duke, Jr. CPA
Cincinnati, OH USA

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I have just graduated from college in the East Coast and
moved to public transport unfriendly California for my job.
I would like to know if it is to claim driving school fees
tax deductible?

many thanks in advance!

I googled and found some material on this but I am not sure
if this applies for my case:
http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc513.html

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