I receive perdiem from my company as taxable income because i am away for more than a year on one project. Can i deduct my expeses?

[Bocaman]

I receive per diem from my employer as taxable income because i am away for more than a year on one project. Can i deduct any of my expenses?

[DS30]

Yes, you will be able to claim job-related expenses as an employee if your per diem was included as taxable income.

However, as a employee, job-related expenses are considered deductible miscellaneous expenses that are subject to a 2% AGI limitation and are only deductible if you itemize.

To enter your job-related expenses in TurboTax Online or Desktop (for TurboTax Online sign-in, click Here), please follow these steps:

1. Once you are in your tax return, click on the “Federal Taxes” tab
2. Next click on “Deductions and credits”
3. Next click on "check for more tax breaks" then “see all tax breaks”
4. Scroll down the screen until to come to the section “Employment Expenses”
5. Choose "show more", then Job-related expenses and follow the onscreen instructions

• Say "yes" to question "Did you have any of these expenses in 2017 for your W-2 income?" under the screen titled "Employment Expenses Related to a W-2".
• after about 6 to 10 question screens, you will get to a screen titled "Any Other Expenses" you can put this information here.

Please note that if you are claiming a foreign earned income exclusion for your foreign sourced earned income, you will not be able to claim any expenses against excluded income.

[SweetieJean]

@TurboTaxDeeS
"away for more than a year on one project."
Does it matter that this is not a" less than one year" temporary assignment?

[DS30]

It will not make a difference that the assignment is over one year. But I did add a note that if the income is excluded under FEIE, then the taxpayer will not be able to claim any expenses related to any excluded income.