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From: sdl@rayssd.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.taxes
Subject: Re: House purchase deductions
Message-ID: <383@rayssd.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 5-Feb-84 15:00:22 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb  5 15:00:22 1984
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Not quite.  Attorney fees and related stuff CAN be deducted from
your taxes if you have bought the house in order to move to take up a new
job, in which case these things are deductible as moving expenses
(up to the usual $3000 limit on indirect moving expenses).