If it was an expense you incurred for training, for your job, certainly!:eek:

Or...if it was an expense you incurred while looking for work yes!:D

Did you guys talk about flying? Then, yes!

Notice I didn't wait for your answer...I didn't need an answer. Of course you talked about flying.

My wife's favorite pilot joke:

How do you know when your date with a pilot is half over?

When he says, "That's enough about me, let's talk about flying.". :rolleyes:

Sounds like an airline pilot convention. Did you discuss work for at least 1 second?

This is not tax advice. Dyodd.

You have retirement pay, you probably won't hit 2% AGI.

Union Dues are deductible work expenses. You're already at 1.95%

Your buddy Bruce Wayne? Pretty sure "therapeutic services" can be claimed by a decent CPA.

One guy who was into a direct marketing scheme told me he wrote off all of his ski vacations as being sales trips, since he would subject his unfortunate seatmate on the chairlift to a marketing pitch. I warned him that some day the chair would reach the mountaintop with an empty seat. :rolleyes:

True, but I also happen to know he was on probation for half the year and didn't pay dues during that time :).

That said, any mil retirees who paid a full year of ALPA dues find it worthwhile to itemize all those job related expenses and per diem differences?

Mike,
That's only one aspect of the unreimbursed employee expense column. For that I use the printout from flight line (I know, everyone likes the other guys). There are many little items that add up for pilot write offs if you keep the receipts.