If you deduct travel, entertainment, business gift, or local transportation expenses, you are required to keep records that substantiate certain elements of each type of deduction.
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On Schedule A line 20, you can include the unreimbursed costs of education that is required by your employer or by the law to keep your present salary, status, or job.
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What education expenses are tax deductible? The following are job related expenses that can be deducted.
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Whether you can deduct allowable work related expenses depends on your reimbursement arrangement with your employer. Your employer may not reimburse you at all for your work related expenses.
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You must use the tax form 2106 to figure and report travel, car, and other local transportation expenses whether or not you were reimbursed for these expenses.
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The table below shows what your employer reports on your W-2 form and what you report on tax form 2106 to the IRS.
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The following are some of the expenses that can be entered directly on line 20 of Schedule A as long as you did not receive reimbursement for them (or the reimbursements were all included in box 1 of your Form W-2).
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