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Question: Will you donate your wedding dress to help people in need?

Your wedding dress deserves a happy life too? Right? But it sits in your closet, waiting to be eaten by bugs or fire or rejected by your daughter because the dress doesn’t have a wireless hook-up thingy to regulate body temperature (standard in yr 2025).

Making Memories is a non-profit organization founded for the express purpose of granting memory-making events and last wishes to women and men who suffer from metastatic breast cancer. Making Memories is able to grant these wishes by selling wedding gowns that have been donated by manufacturers, bridal shops and individuals at our events called “Brides Against Breast Cancer” across the nation.

Please visit www.makingmemories.org and see the wishes we grant with the proceeds of our wedding gown sales.

Your donation and shipping costs are tax deductible. We’ll love an appreciate your dress and you’ll have more room for shoes.

Answer: No way! I spent 5,000 on my dress! And I am not donating it! It is for my daughter if I ever have one!

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Question: donation tax?

Hi, I am single, no kids, no house. I usually do standard deduction. However, I donated many clothes. Is it helpful if I file a itemized deduction for those donated clothes? What’s the min amount to file a itemized deduction in order to get more refunds?

Answer: Your best bet would be to figure your taxes both ways, using the standard deduction and the intemized deduction. Use whichever gives you the most back.

A good rule of thumb is that, unless you have a mortgage and pay interest, you are going to come out ahead using the standard deduction. Otherwise you probably won’t have enough deductions to equal or surpass the standard deduction.

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Question: tax return – deductions?

hey there

I’m international student working in a hotel as a casual F&B Attendant. I also study Advance Diploma of hospitality. I was wondering what I can claim this year. I heard that I cannot claim the petrol since I don’t travel between jobs. I had to buy uniform, entry card and till card so I guess I can deduct that. I’m gonna claim laundry and maybe shoes. Does anybody know what else I can claim?

Last year I earned less than $12,000 and when I was using calculator from the gov website it showed me that I have low income tax offset (less $1,500). Does it mean that i do not have to worry about deductions and I will get all tax back?

thanksssss

Answer: If you have not been re-imbursed by your company you can claim:
1. Cost of uniform
2. Cost of protective clothing
3. Cost of laundry
4. Mobile phone costs – if you make calls on your mobile for them

However, you may not need to claim expenses as it looks like you are under the threshold for income tax and thefore entitled to all your tax back.

Good luck!

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Question: Is my laptop tax deductible?

I’m going to be buying a laptop, and was wondering if it’s tax deductible as i work for an internet company that requires me at times to access the net for research on a computer at home.

Answer: If it’s for business and you can prove it, then more than likely yes. Ask your accountant though.

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Question: Can I claim my girlfriends kids as dependents, and let her claim them for the EIC?

I live with my girlfriend and her two kids. She made $12,000 in 2009, so I know that I cannot claim her as a dependent, however I supported all of them throughout the year. Can I claim the kids as my dependents, to get the standard deduction for them and the child care credit? And then have her claim them for the EIC, as non-dependents, so that she will reap the benefit of the EIC due to her low income?

Answer: No.

You can’t claim them because their mother’s income is over $3650 for the year.

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