Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site eosp1.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!ulysses!princeton!eosp1!mcmillan From: mcmillan@eosp1.UUCP (John McMillan) Newsgroups: net.taxes,net.legal Subject: Re: Tax question for academicians Message-ID: <605@eosp1.UUCP> Date: Tue, 21-Feb-84 22:21:56 EST Article-I.D.: eosp1.605 Posted: Tue Feb 21 22:21:56 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 23-Feb-84 01:41:20 EST References: <1935@ihnss.UUCP> Organization: Exxon Office Systems, Princeton, NJ Lines: 23 When I was a graduate student and research assistant, I declared my tuition money as a deduction by neat piece of reasoning. I carefully explained it in an attachment on my income tax, but the amount involved was very small, so I cannot draw any inferences from the IRS's failure to audit me. The law may have changed, but in 1964 it went like this: There were a very few well-accepted cases where tuition was tax deductable. One of the cases was: where it is necessary to go to school in order to keep your job. I carefully explained to the IRS that Princeton Graduate School would only give Research Assistanceships to full time graduate students; if I stopped going to school I would lose my job. Therefore the tuition was deductable. Now there is obviously a logical error in that bit of reasoning someplace (confusing cause and effect?), but it seemed to work very well. I also brought this argument to the attention of the Graduate School Administration, hoping to save thousands of dollars for the students as a group, but the deans were not interested in my argument. - Toby Robison allegra!eosp1!robison decvax!ittvax!eosp1!robison princeton!eosp1!robison (NOTE! NOT McMillan; Robison.)