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NOYB,
You are just upset because you would have to fill some cavities to
write
off your trip, but it still might be a good deal.
There are all sorts of "grey area" methods to save taxes. Writing
off
non-business related trips as a business expense is not my way to
save
taxes. As a corporation, I could make my wife an officer, and then
write-off *any* trip that I take by simply keeping a journal of
daily
"business meetings". But I consider that unethical...and would
never
do
it.
But there are always those educational seminars held in luxury
vacations
spots. The medical doctors seem to really be hooked on those.
The only one I take advantage of is the annual Florida Dental
Association meeting in Orlando. But I must get an advertisement for
a
new one in some exotic locale almost every day in the mail.

I *will* be attending the ADA meeting in Hawaii in 2009 though. ;-)

I get clients to pay for many of my trips. They usually want some sort
of presentation from me at their meetings. Since I am on a retainer
fee,
they don't have to pay more for me to be there, so they're glad to
pick
up my airfare, hotel, meals, et cetera. I was invited to a meeting
next
month in Seattle, but I talked the client into putting me off until
Spring. I do hope the sun shines a little in Seattle in the Spring.

Do you claim the trip as income?


I should be embarrassed to say this, but I don't know. My books are
handled by an accountant, and he prepares my taxes, too. I follow his
advice. When I say "pick up" my travel expenses, I pay for them up
front,
submit a voucher and receipts, and get reimbursed. I don't mark up these
purchases, so I suspect they are a wash, tax-wise.

I hope he is a union accountant!

"Narcissists are grandiose. They live in an artificial self invented from
fantasies of absolute or perfect power, genius, beauty, etc. Normal people's
fantasies of themselves, their wishful thinking, take the form of stories --
these stories often come from movies or TV, or from things they've read or
that were read to them as children. They involve a plot, heroic activity or
great accomplishments or adventu normal people see themselves in action,
however preposterous or even impossible that action may be -- they see
themselves doing things that earn them honor, glory, love, riches, fame, and
they see these fantasy selves as personal potentials, however tenuous"