krona12345
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Immigrations Fees. Federal Tax deductions?
Can I ?
Can I ?
Immigrations Fees. Tax deductions?
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trialanderror83
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You are serious arn't you?
TheRealCanadian
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I think you can deduct the amount in excess of 2% of your AGI. I doubt you'll meet that threshold.
krona12345
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In Canada you can . I know is the U.S but would be nice if we could deduct.
austriacus
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There's some information about this in Publication 529 (miscellaneous deductions).
There's a deduction for "Legal fees related to your job" which, as TheRealCanadian correctly pointed out, is subject to the limit that only the excess beyond 2% of your AGI is deductible. It's under the heading for "unreimbursed employee expenses." There's also another category for "Legal fees related to producing or collecting taxable income or getting tax advice."
Legal Fees
You can deduct legal fees related to doing or keeping your job.
Legal Expenses
You can usually deduct legal expenses that you incur in attempting to produce or collect taxable income or that you pay in connection with the determination, collection, or refund of any tax. You can also deduct legal expenses that are [r]elated to either doing or keeping your job, such as those you paid to defend yourself against criminal charges arising out of your trade or business[.]
However, I doubt that a GC, especially a family based GC, could be construed as being specifically related to your job, or related to doing or keeping your job. If anything, this might be true for employment based GCs (the only instance I can think of, and even there I wouldn't be comfortable with it, is where someone exhausted their nonimmigrant visa employment limit and files for AOS to keep their job).
It specifically mentions in the same publication that personal legal fees are not deductible.
There's a deduction for "Legal fees related to your job" which, as TheRealCanadian correctly pointed out, is subject to the limit that only the excess beyond 2% of your AGI is deductible. It's under the heading for "unreimbursed employee expenses." There's also another category for "Legal fees related to producing or collecting taxable income or getting tax advice."
Legal Fees
You can deduct legal fees related to doing or keeping your job.
Legal Expenses
You can usually deduct legal expenses that you incur in attempting to produce or collect taxable income or that you pay in connection with the determination, collection, or refund of any tax. You can also deduct legal expenses that are [r]elated to either doing or keeping your job, such as those you paid to defend yourself against criminal charges arising out of your trade or business[.]
However, I doubt that a GC, especially a family based GC, could be construed as being specifically related to your job, or related to doing or keeping your job. If anything, this might be true for employment based GCs (the only instance I can think of, and even there I wouldn't be comfortable with it, is where someone exhausted their nonimmigrant visa employment limit and files for AOS to keep their job).
It specifically mentions in the same publication that personal legal fees are not deductible.