Vanessa A
Expert Alumni

Deductions & credits

That is correct.  Employee job related expenses are not tax deductible under current tax law unless you are one of the following:

This changed in 2017 with the new tax laws that went into affect back then.  Prior to that, employee job related expenses were deductible as an itemized expense for the amount that was more than 2% of your AGI and then only if you itemized. 

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