Tax office rejects employee's work lunch deductions and claims they can drive home to make lunch, so the employee claims a larger deduction for mileage to and from work: ‘"Very well played..."’

Tax season gets under all of our skins… There's something about money, the absence of it, and realizing how much money is taken out of our paychecks per year for miscellaneous reasons that has the potential to turn us all into crazy people. I'm not sure about you, but I struggle to open my banking app, let alone do my taxes. There are some things certain people just shouldn't see… I'm just a girl!

If you didn't know, there are plenty of loopholes that rich people use to somehow make more money off of spending more money, and that's usually due to write-offs and deductions on their taxable income for a number of reasons. They say that rich people stay rich because they know how to keep their money, and this is just one way of doing it.

Even still, deductions are only a wealthy person's thing. Anyone can receive deductions on their taxes, which results in fewer taxes being taken out of their income because their taxable income grows smaller. I know, I know. I'm probably explaining this more than poorly. Oh well, on with the program!

The employee who shares the story below explains that they were wrestling with a tax office over office lunch deductions. This tax office failed to provide them with the deduction because, in their eyes, the employee could've simply gone home and made lunch for themselves instead of grabbing lunch outside. There is one issue with this logic… and the employee hits the nail right on the head.

For a tax office, they sure didn't think this through. If the employee drives to and from work for lunch, then their mileage increases. Which means: more money spent. Which means: more deductions. Don't you just love when the universe straight-up refuses to let you down? I have yet to experience the same stroke of luck, but stories like these sure give me hope that the universe is on the little guy's side sometimes. Scroll to read the full story.

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"Tax office won't accept my tax deduction: I claim even more deduction on the same basis used to deny it"

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