Are baby wipes tax deductible?

Audits do not disallow cleaning supplies for cleaning your truck if your company requires you to clean your truck as a condition of employment. What the IRS will accept as proof of that, I don't know. If you clean your truck because you just like a clean truck, it isn't deductable. I used to work for a company who did require a clean truck. My accountant deducted the supplies, and said it would pass an audit. He joked "it has to, I will be there at the audit with you, if you get audited"

 

Oh for Pete sake

 

I get a huge stack of Baby Wipes for about $5, that lasts me over 2 weeks. I use them all the time, wiping my face and hands after dropping and hooking trailers. You are trying to say you use 10 packages of Baby wipes each week? You are nuts, or a liar.

 

That's to funny to comment on.

 

Keep all receipts! ! All toiletries are deductable. Soap, shampoo, razors etc. If you need use 2500.00 and you have receipts then they can't argue that. But they may audit you and you have to show proof. They will go over everything s be on the up and up.

 

Anything can be disallowed if it's in excess of what is considered 'normal' for your business. $200/mo for baby wipes sounds like some sort of misprint or deception to the IRS.

Now, someone mentioned if your company requires a clean truck as part of employment, what if you're an O/O? Can I mandate that all my drives (me) must have a clean truck?

And what about truck washes? If truck cleanliness is a personal expenses, what's to say washing the outside isn't personal as well?

If I buy it for the truck because it's used for the truck. It gets written off. I go through a $9 pack of paper towels a month, or sooner. I buy them just for my truck to handle all the dirt and excess grim you accumulate everywhere when trying to do work. At the TA or Petro, these would be listed as "shop supplies" and are written off. They don't make the company pay tax on them, or the employees to bring their own.

It sounds like your auditor is seeing how far they can push to extract the most money out of you.

 

To be deductible, a business expense must be both ordinary and necessary. An ordinary expense is one that is common and accepted in your trade or business. A necessary expense is one that is helpful and appropriate for your trade or business. An expense does not have to be indispensable to be considered necessary.

 

My comment dealt with the cleaning supplies for a person taking a shower.

The audit I had, she said the cleaning supplies for the interior of the truck were personal. Later in the audit, she backed down on it.

 

IMHO--yall make this way too complicated--make a lumper company form-or scan 3-4 real companies in your puter and white out dates etc-and once or twice a month when their are no unloadin charges--ghost a $100-$150 unloading charge--never gets questioned--and move on.......
Just my $.02

 

I lump it in with truck supplies have never had a problem,or been questioned