Job Expense or Medical Expense?

Are you the only one who has to get those glasses? Or do all the employees in your position have to get them?

I'd think that if you have to get something special to you, it's more a medical expense than a business expense. But if everyone is in the same boat, I'd think it would be a medical expense.

Did you use a wrong word in one of the sentences above?

I will admit to not being, but I think that the criterion is that you employer requires you to buy these glasses as a condition for to retain your job.

For example, if you are a glassblower and require glasses to suppress the the bright yellow produced by hot glass, you would have an employment expense.

Bill

Is is possible for these to be "impairment-related work expenses?"

If so, that would be misc deductions not subject to the 2% rule.

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"Says: "Work-related expenses are ... and other expenses in connectionwith your PLACE of work that are necessary for you to be able towork." The next paragraph gives a confusing example. According to thepub, there must be a nexus between your place of work and theeyeglasses glasses.

Can you work without the eyeglasses?

Richard Di Bernardo, CPA

If the OP's situation is like one I had, it goes like this. I (anyway) was working in a glass factory. I had to have glasses to see (being 20/400 in my GOOD eye). OSHA, Union, and various other rules said all employees had to have safety glasses. I had to have glasses made to my RX with specific (hardened) types of lens. Thus in order to be able to see AND work I had to get these specific kind of glasses. The glasses were a requirement of working there. Under this scenario would it be work-related?

The portion of your eyeglasses for the RX part is a medical expense. The remaining portion is something everyone has, and is subject to the

2% limitation. It is not subject to the 0% limitation because that seems to only apply to disabled people. That's my take!

How much money are we talking here? Why not take the 2 %?. Sure sounds like a job related expense to me.. Any tool you use to get your job done falls under the 2 %. that's how it's been expalined to me. For what it's worth.