Let us say, for sake of argument, that you have a job that requires you to commute a signifigant distance each day.
Let's also say that part of this daily commute involves a toll road.
Let's also say that since you are interested in potentially saving money with a tax write-off, you keep reciepts from each toll payment, in hopes of being reimbursed at tax time.
So, we have two reciepts each way, as you have to go through two toll booths, which takes the total to 4 a day, two in the morning, two each night.
4 slips a day, 5 days a week, 4 weeks a month, for let's say, the last six months. Perhaps more.
4 x 5 x 4 x 6 = 480
I won't even attempt to multiply that number into any real dollar amounts, since you would most likely immediately subtract that number from your salary, and get a nasty sinking feeling in your stomach or loins, right before you started crying.
Now let us imagine that you have a meeting with your accountant, since tax day is coming up oh so quickly, and you ask her about the potential for reimbursment for all of these dollars and seventy-five-centses, and your accountant asks you some questions about the nature of your job, and whether or not the tolls were just commuting to and from work, or paid as part of a job that required me to drive on the aforementioned toll road. You answer her truthfully. She hands you back the thick stack of several hundred toll reciepts, and says with a sad and piteous tone, "Sorry."
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*Sigh*
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Courage! Let us not dwell on the financial implications of this unfortunate set of circumstances! No! For these are the follies of life, and we must roll with each punch, even as it connects with deadly accuracy and powerful force, our kidney and/or groinal area.
No, what I want you to tell me about, dear reader, is what YOU would do with nearly a thousand small(approximately 2" by 5") white slips of paper that now have absolutely no legal or fiscal purpose in your life?
Hmmmmmm???
Let's also say that part of this daily commute involves a toll road.
Let's also say that since you are interested in potentially saving money with a tax write-off, you keep reciepts from each toll payment, in hopes of being reimbursed at tax time.
So, we have two reciepts each way, as you have to go through two toll booths, which takes the total to 4 a day, two in the morning, two each night.
4 slips a day, 5 days a week, 4 weeks a month, for let's say, the last six months. Perhaps more.
4 x 5 x 4 x 6 = 480
I won't even attempt to multiply that number into any real dollar amounts, since you would most likely immediately subtract that number from your salary, and get a nasty sinking feeling in your stomach or loins, right before you started crying.
Now let us imagine that you have a meeting with your accountant, since tax day is coming up oh so quickly, and you ask her about the potential for reimbursment for all of these dollars and seventy-five-centses, and your accountant asks you some questions about the nature of your job, and whether or not the tolls were just commuting to and from work, or paid as part of a job that required me to drive on the aforementioned toll road. You answer her truthfully. She hands you back the thick stack of several hundred toll reciepts, and says with a sad and piteous tone, "Sorry."
***
*Sigh*
***
Courage! Let us not dwell on the financial implications of this unfortunate set of circumstances! No! For these are the follies of life, and we must roll with each punch, even as it connects with deadly accuracy and powerful force, our kidney and/or groinal area.
No, what I want you to tell me about, dear reader, is what YOU would do with nearly a thousand small(approximately 2" by 5") white slips of paper that now have absolutely no legal or fiscal purpose in your life?
Hmmmmmm???