If you read the blog regularly, you probably already know a little bit about my maternal grandmother. If you don’t, let me fill you in… She made the best vegetable soup in the world. She raised eight children, including an invalid son whom she refused to institutionalize even though everyone told her different. She dyed…
There’s lots going on in the tax world this week. And much of it bores me, so take from that what you will. But the case of Finzer v. United States, No. 06-C-2176, about medical expenses and assisted living facilities caught my eye because, well, lots of folks that I know are considering assisted living…
Rhiannon O’Donnabhain is challenging a decision not to allow the $25,000 cost of her 2001 sex-change and breast augmentation surgeries as a tax deduction. According to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), both surgeries were elective and cosmetic, and therefore not deductible as medical expenses. 63-year old O’Donnabhain argued in Tax Court that the procedures were…