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.
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
Let’s see if I can break it down so that even you can understand it.
If I don’t have any income I can’t eat and will die.
If I have any income and I spend any of that income on food then any taxes I pay on that income I should be able to deduct the cost of that food because without that food I won’t be able to pay taxes because I will be dead.
Any food I eat is absolutely related to any income I get. Without income I have no food and I die. Without food I will die and will not earn (or aquire) income. My ability to get income is 100% dependent on the cost of the food. It’s absolutely related.
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.
Let’s see if I can break it down so that even you can understand it.
If I don’t have any income I can’t eat and will die.
If I have any income and I spend any of that income on food then any taxes I pay on that income I should be able to deduct the cost of that food because without that food I won’t be able to pay taxes because I will be dead.
Any food I eat is absolutely related to any income I get. Without income I have no food and I die. Without food I will die and will not earn (or aquire) income. My ability to get income is 100% dependent on the cost of the food. It’s absolutely related.
No food == no income.
got it?
Plenty of people don’t have any income and can still eat and don’t die. This alone proves you wrong.
Are you talking about children?
How do people buy food without any money?