Tax Deduction Question: Claim the expense the year purchased or year used?

I'm pretty sure if you use the cash system (rather than accrual) you deduct it in the year you spent the money.

I compare it to making a contribution for a non-profit in December although the contribution is for your next year's membership in the non-profit. You deduct the contribution in the year you paid it, not for the year of the membership.

Poodle can either verify or correct my statement.

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Hey Russian, you been terrorizing and bullying more people on here?

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Oh, yeah, man.....everyday. It's what I live for.

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Haha You still hear from Bitcoin Boy?

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If you're referring to wiki, not for few days. He posted in a thread on the Help Board about me "stalking" another poster but he seemed to disappear when an admin and Chicken didn't seem to agree with him.

He chimed in the thread and was pissed that I used the initial of his first name (not his name, mind you, just the first letter of his name) last year in a post and said it proved I had stalked him and learned his name....blah, blah, blah.

I and another poster reminded wiki in that thread that he had used his real name as his screen name for the first year or so that he posted on TigerDroppings so anyone who has been around for a while knows his name.

Never a dull moment on TigerDroppings!!! It's one of the reasons TD.com is the best message board on the interwebz!