Because you’re not a business. None of those are costs associated with your job. If you didn’t have your job you would still be paying for those things.
How do you not understand this? Do unemployed people not need to eat or pay rent?
This is like talking to a brick wall. If you don’t have a job you still have those costs, so that means those costs are not work related so can’t be claimed as tax deductions.
Businesses aren’t people. Revenue isn’t personal income.
You’re comparing apples to oranges.
I don’t care if businesses are not people. That’s not the topic. The topic is why they get to deduct expenses that I am not allowed to deduct.
And the reasons why they are all explained in my example that you don’t seem to understand.
You said a bunch of things. None of them made any sense.
Try again.
Why shouldn’t I be allowed to deduct my utilities and rent just like a business does.
Because you’re not a business. None of those are costs associated with your job. If you didn’t have your job you would still be paying for those things.
How do you not understand this? Do unemployed people not need to eat or pay rent?
I know. That’s not relevant.
If I don’t eat, if I don’t have a place to live, if I can’t use electricity or water or sewer I can’t do my job.
If I didn’t have a job I wouldn’t be paying rent or utilities right?
how do they eat? Where do they get the money to eat? Do they pay taxes on that money?
As always, missed the point.
You need to eat and pay rent even when you don’t have a job, therefore they’re not costs related to your income.
How do I eat and pay rent if I don’t have a job?
That requires money right?
Where do I get that money?
Do I pay taxes on that money?
Do I need to eat and stay alive in order to get that income?
This is like talking to a brick wall. If you don’t have a job you still have those costs, so that means those costs are not work related so can’t be claimed as tax deductions.