Holistic practices have their place in modern medicine, but you can’t expect the feds to reimburse every “nature-based” treatment a patient wants.
That’s the lesson recently learned by a tax attorney (no, really) who tried to deduct more than $108,000 in medical expenses on his taxes. The bulk of the funds were spent on prostitutes, porn, and magazines on sex therapy.
We’ll give him this: He kept good records, including the amounts paid, the date payment was made and the name of the “service provider.”
But the feds weren’t convinced that the “treatments” were for a medical condition, and a court agreed.
He’ll now have to pay not only the back taxes on the disallowed deductions, but another $4,200 in penalties.
Not much of a happy ending.
If hookers aren’t an eligible tax deductible then I don’t want to live in this world anymore! 🙂
He used the wrong tax category.
Hookers are a business expense, not a health treatment, and only then if you are a politician.