Reply #27: There's an interesting question

[one-eyed fat man]

Most places if you have to provide your own tools to work, the cost of those tools is tax deductible.

Tools are an employee business expense that are reported on form 2106 which then carries to Schedule A itemized deductions. Employee business expenses must exceed 2% of you adjusted gross income before they start to count. A short-barreled shotgun might be tough to make the 2%, even adding the tax. But cough up 18K for a nice Thompson and I bet it makes it! Clothing counts too, if it's uniform and/or something not generally able to be worn away from work. So do you deduct the Class II vest as clothing or protective equipment?

Where are the CPA's who know the answers to those questions?