Meet the Street: All's Fair in Love and Taxes?
When it comes to creative accounting, even Enron probably doesn't have anything on what individuals try to get away with on their tax returns.
Try a collection of porn tapes as a business expense, or someone's pet dog as a dependent. Sometimes people even manage to get away with the most unlikely or unsavory claims, says Grace W. Weinstein, author of the Complete Idiot's Guide to Tax-Free Investing and 11 other books on personal finance.

Grace W. Weinstein
Author,
Complete Idiot's Guide to Tax-Free Investing
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