Salmon Egg wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@news60.forteinc.com:
It is common that when a technical paper is accepted for publication
> by a peer reviewed journal, the author's employer usually pays page
> charges. Being retired, I wish to submit a technical paper to a
> journal. If I pay the page charges, would they be deductible? I will
> get no income from that. The journal would be that of an organization
> devoted to disseminating scientific and technical knowledge.
>
> If I were to collaborate with an academic on such a paper, would I be
> able to get a deduction by contributing to the academic's institution
> for the specific purpose of paying the page charges?
>
> Bill
In my experience as a biomedical researcher, page charges are paid by the investigators' (investigator's) funds. Usually these are grant funds of some kind. It may be possible to request an exemption from the publisher, but I'm not giving you more than a 15% chance of success in that (zero if the publisher is Elsevier). It may be better for your wallet if you find a journal with no or lesser page charges. With the current wide distribution of search and abstracting services, it is by far not as important any more (other than prestige) to get published in a "good" journal. Of course, the critiques and press coverage would be better ...
What area would your paper be in?