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Nov 13
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Advances in tax deductability

  • Tas Sinadinos moved to Sydney to work for a particular employer on an annual salary of $185K
  • his employer gave him a credit card to use for work-related expenses
  • he used the card to pay for, among other things, ”escort agency services”
  • he was afterwards fired for using the card in that way and is suing his former employer, claiming that he was unfairly dismissed
  • in the case, TS claimed that his buying the services of escort agencies could be a tax deduction for his former employer, as expenses incurred in relocating him to Sydney
  • the presiding judge is quoted as dealing with that claim by saying that he “could barely believe that Tas Sinadinos lived in the ‘real world’ in” making it
  • from here
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