A synagogue in your home? Zoom camera lighting? Pandemic offered rabbis some unusual tax deductions
A suggestion to rabbis: don’t do your own tax return this year. The pandemic forced most people to move their office to their home and rabbis were no exception. Rabbis found themselves setting up a room in their house from which to work, buying office supplies and camera lighting to Zoom with congregants and participate in minyans. But is any of that deductible when filling out their 2020 tax returns? “Every rabbi I know is working from home and I don’t know of any rabbi who thought about that,” confessed Rabbi Elyse Wechterman, executive director of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical A...
Source: forward.com