I am a dentist, classified as an employee of a company. I am paid a base salary, as well as commissions.
- If I buy some of my own instruments to use in the office, can these be deducted?
- Can I deduct meals - I occasionally hold lunch meetings (business- related) where I buy lunch for my assistants.
- Here is a tricky one.... can I deduct miles? I work at 4 different locations. The company does not reimburse me for mileage, but interestingly, the assistants ARE reimbursed by the company for mileage. They choose one office as the "headquarters", and then calculate mileage from headquarters to the satellite offices. On any given day, they (we) all drive directly from our residence to one office -- in other words, we do not meet at "headquarters" and then drive to a satellite. The assistants are classified as employees as well.
I am NOT an independent contractor, so I assume none of the above deductions can be made, but just wanted to make sure. Thanks.