Flash Wrote:
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> On all of this stuff I would strongly suggest that
> YOU read the tax code and make YOUR decisions
> about what is and is not allowed. IRS is unlikely
> to penalize anyone who is acting in good faith
> based on what they can determine from reading the
> rules and regulations.
This is the best advice anyone here can give you. I am a tax preparer myself for the past 15 years and have done all kinds of returns, taken classes, been tested -- and I would not want to see anyone here taking any advice I gave you and trying to apply it because everyone's tax situation is different. The decisions a single adult with no kids and only mystery shopping as a source of income would make are not the same decisions that a married couple with kids and two W-2 incomes in the household and mystery shopping as a sideline would make.
Time to build a bigger bridge.