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would I be able to write off a yoga teacher training as an occupational therapist?

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I am a home health and adult group home occupation therapist with a 1099 and considering taking taking a yoga teaching training abroad. Yoga has helped my body aches ( mind , body ,spirit) and I  want to incorporate it into my therapy interventions. If i go through with the yoga teacher training abroad, would I be able to write off the training?

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would I be able to write off a yoga teacher training as an occupational therapist?

That could be tricky.  You can't deduct (as a work expense), training needed to meet the minimum requirements for your job or to qualify for a new job, but you can deduct training that extends or improves your skills in your current job.  So you would have to look at this training on that basis.

https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc513

 

Then, international travel is allowed, but you need to be careful that you only deduct expenses related to training and not expenses related to personal travel (i.e. vacation).   There are a series of rules and tests in publication 463.  https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-publication-463

 

If the travel is "entirely for business" (based on 4 tests that are described in the publication) then you can deduct transportation, 50% of meals, and your tuition or registration expenses.  If the travel is not "entirely for business" (and therefore partly personal) then you can only deduct the registration fees and other expenses that are directly associated with the training. 

 

 

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