job search expenses

• Taxpayers miss opportunity to claim work-related expenses

  By Jenny Ivy  |  April 13, 2012

  Resume paper, trips to job interviews, even steel-toe boots can all be claimed as a work-related expense on tax filings. Yet only one in five taxpayers say they include it, according to a survey from Liberty Tax Service and CareerBuilder. Only 7 percent have claimed job search expenses.

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  Tax relief for jobless misery

  By Jenny Ivy  |  January 23, 2012

  If you spent either all or part of the year actively looking for a job, there are some ways to skirt the tax pinch.

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  All 2011 unemployment insurance benefits taxable

  By Carole Feldman  |  January 23, 2012

  The jobless rate is dipping, but millions of people are still out of work. And that could have implications when they file their income tax returns.