William Halby, a 78-year-old tax lawyer, claimed more than one hundred thousand dollars spent on prostitutes and magazines as medical expenses for sex therapy. You won’t be surprised to learn that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) didn’t agree with him and issued a Notice of Deficiency. The matter landed in court. You can read more about the case over at Accounting Today.
And it’s not Halby’s first attempt to claim those deductions. Halby also lost a New York state tax case in which he had tried to deduct $322,000 in sex-related charges for 2001-2005.
I don’t understand your emphasis on his age. Are older people supposed to be more scrupulous than to hire prostitutes? More ethical than to commit tax fraud?
No Thomas, they are supposed to be much less interested/needful of sex! (Except Hef.) I’m 45 and I’m not looking forward to that!
I would think it didn’t fly, because these were not sex therapy expenses. It was a man visiting a prostitute and nothing more. I wonder how it would’ve turned out if the man had a “perscription” from a genuine doctor and had done business with a practicing ,licenced, legitimate, sex therapist.