Can I deduct as "a business expense re improving myself toward getting a future job" for a conference I attended (that was required for PhD). I'm a grad student as well as unemployed software engineer (worked till April 4 2017). Knowledge gained & networking would help with my occupation going forward. Am looking for another software developer job. The conference was also required in that I need to get 2 papers published to graduate and the way to get them done is via these conferences. This is common practice as journal papers can take too long to get published.
I cannot deduct for education expense as reached limits re agi-
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Job Search Expenses possibly but you would have to itemize and see limitations (read the can't part), or possibly Grad school expenses.
Taxpayers who are looking for a new job that is in the same line of work may be able to deduct some job-hunting expenses on their federal income tax return, even if they don’t get a new job.
Here are some important facts to know about deducting costs related to job searches:
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