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Background Note
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2005
Allemeier Commissioner
by
Henry B. Reiling and Kevin Wall
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Abstract
An employee who worked full time while pursuing an MBA wishes to deduct his tuition expenses in computing his federal income tax. The IRS denied the deduction as a violation of several of its policies interpreting the relevant statute. Are the expenses deductible?
Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting;
Policy;
Taxation;
Employees;
Law;
Citation:
Reiling, Henry B., and Kevin Wall. "Allemeier Commissioner." Harvard Business School Background Note 206-079, November 2005.