If a stripper gets breast implants can she write it off on her taxes as a business expense?

yes…

if she can prove that “dancing” is her major source of income and not only supplemental.

I suppose she could, but there’s some complications here.

If you buy a computer as a business expense, you can only deduct a percentage of its price: the exact percentage of use that is directly related to business. So, 70 business / 30 personal would mean that 70% of the price was deductable.

You’d have to have a way to explain what percentage you “use” the augmented breasts for work purposes, and then could only deduct that much.

No matter what the percentages, one thing is sure: this is a 100% sure way to get audited.

@tonedef

Yeah, it really depends on the reviewer/auditor I guess. In the case of Chesty Love them bangers were so big that the court ruled they were equal to “stage props” and therefore of no “personal” use:

“Tax Court Judge Joan Seitz Pate noted that Hess increased her income as a result of the surgery and that her cumbersome breasts, weighing 10 pounds each, were so large that she could not derive personal benefit from them. Hess had undergone the surgery “all for the purpose of making money” at an Indiana strip club, and the tax court allowed her to deduct the expense as a stage prop.”

not in Oregon you can’t. Perhaps it could be fought but cosmetic surgery is not covered as a tax write off in this state.

hum, Oregon yes :)

I used to live in Portland for a very short while. They are a bit different there indeed :)

@judochop, work expenses are deducted from federal income taxes, and so are not subject to the jurisdiction of individual states.