topic Church Safety Team in Deductions & credits

Church Safety Team

ifishjdc — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:05:29 GMT

I serve on our Church Safety Team. I learned in a recent training session that I could claim expenses as deductions in regard to training classes, mileage for training classes, ammunition for training and the expense of the firearm used for use on the safety team. How and where do I file these expenses for deductions?

Re: Church Safety Team

macuser_22 — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 01:50:30 GMT

As an itemized charitable deduction, but it all your itemized deduction do not exceed the standard deduction it will make no difference.

2021 standard deductions

$12,550 Single
$18,800 Head of Household
$25,100 Married Jointly

Add an additional $1,700 for over age 65 or blind

Re: Church Safety Team

ErnieS0 — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 01:56:50 GMT

You can enter any expenses not reimbursed by your church as charitable cash deductions for the amount you actually spent (keep receipts).

There is another part in charitable deductions to enter your mileage. TurboTax will do the math and convert that into cents per mile.

Type donations in Search in the upper right.
Click Jump to donations.
Say Yes to Did you make donations to charity in 2021?
Say No to Do you have an account with ItsDeductible Online.
Type the name of the charity in Who did you donate in 2020?
Click Add next to Money. Enter your out-of-pocket expenses.
Click Add to Mileage and travel expenses to add mileage.

See Out of Pocket Expenses in Giving Services