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- <text id=93TT0914>
- <title>
- Jan. 25, 1993: Not Deductible
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Jan. 25, 1993 Stand and Deliver: Bill Clinton
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- BUSINESS, Page 22
- Not Deductible
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>A high court ruling could bring the house down on home offices
- </p>
- <p> For growing numbers of working people, home is where the job
- is. But to the U.S. Supreme Court, home had better be where
- virtually all the job is--or no tax deduction. In a decision
- that will make it harder to write off the costs of a home
- office as a business expense, the high court ruled that home
- offices are not deductible if taxpayers spend significant work
- time away from the rooms they have set aside for office space.
- </p>
- <p> The ruling was handed down in the case of Dr. Nader
- Soliman, a self-employed anesthesiologist who spent 10 to 15
- hours a week working out of the spare bedroom of his home in
- McLean, Virginia. Soliman also worked a total of 30 to 35 hours
- each week in three hospitals. But the irs denied him a $2,500
- tax deduction because it determined that his home office was
- not his "principal place of business." The ruling was roundly
- criticized by small businesses, some members of Congress and,
- appropriately, the National Association for the Cottage
- Industry.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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