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Yes, it is. Legal fees relating to either doing or keeping your job are tax deductible. They are part of your itemized deductions:
Legal Fees you can deduct:
Legal fees you cannot deduct:
My husband is being sued over an employment contract. Legal fees are over $60,000 this year. I am not seeing a way to put them into turbotax. If I do it the workaround way that was suggested, it doesn't seem to make the kind of difference that I expect to see (Maybe alternative minimum is kicking in, or the suggested place to put it doesn't work?) Any suggestions?
My husband is being sued over an employment contract. Legal fees are over $60,000 this year. I am not seeing a way to put them into turbotax. If I do it the workaround way that was suggested, it doesn't seem to make the kind of difference that I expect to see (Maybe alternative minimum is kicking in, or the suggested place to put it doesn't work?) Any suggestions?
You are posting on a thread that is several years old. The tax law has changed since then.
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