Allowable IRS Medical Expenses Tax Deduction Guidelines 2009 2010
You can deduct any expense you pay for the prevention, diagnosis, or medical treatment of physical or mental illness, and any amounts you pay to treat or modify any part or function of the body for health, but not for cosmetic purposes.
(So you can deduct the cost of Lasik...
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Gordon Brown may be asked to pay back expenses
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. "Gordon Brown is expected to be asked to pay back some money as part of the investigation into MPs’ expenses claims." Just when we thought that the 'MP expenses row' was over, it rears...
BBC Spends $607,000 A Year On Bottled Water
The British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, spends £406,000 ($607,000) of taxpayers' money on water every year, according to the british newspaper the Guardian. BBC released the information as a response to a freedom of information request. The money is used to buy large...
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Police to investigate MP expenses
" Scotland Yard has decided to launch an investigation into the alleged misuse of expenses by a small number of MPs and peers, the BBC has learned. Police say its economic and specialist crime command will...
Is this divorce time for the 'Mother of all parliaments'?
It has been a sad week for politics in London as scadals have plagued both houses of the British government. New Labour it seems is tainted with old fashioned sleaze as they wilt under daily allegations of misdeeds in Members expenses. Although MP's expnses were due to be...
Gordon Brown does U-turn and abandons expenses objections
Today the prime minister of the United Kingdom, Gordon Brown, reversed his stance on a plan to block the publication of the expenses claimed by members of parliament. Last night the rival parties, the...
Dodge Foundation Cancels Poetry Festival
How sad!–On an aside, Paul Muldoon, a professor at Princeton University, has been extremely generous in his efforts on behalf of the campaign to save the Hill of Tara, one of Ireland's most important heritage sites, from destruction by developers and speculators. Learn more...
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Nanny or Botox Treatment...botox Wins? Cutting Back
What do you cut first? What do you cut last?Miriam Jordan suggests that When the Going Gets Tough, Some People Lay Off the Nanny (Wall Street Journal, December 11), and personal chefs and the like. Besides women giving up on household help, the article mentions people taking...
Customers injured in crush suing Wal-Mart
Some of the customers injured in Friday's horrific stampede at a Walmart on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving in the US when stores open early and offer big deals for people who come at dawn, are planning...
Canada not giving up on F1 race yet
In an effort to confirm the ageless expression coined by famous NY Yankee baseball player and manager, Yogi Berra - "It ain't over 'till it's over", officials of the Canadian Grand Prix, the city of Montreal,...
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