It’s more than just a Snickers bar!
This is the kickoff blog for my new website and what better way to start it than with something fun and informing.
The SNICKERS® Write-Off has been getting a lot of viewing on YouTube lately, because of something apparently Mars put out.
Hopefully somewhat tongue-in-cheek, they state that “In 2005, an Arizona woman tried to write off a Snickers bar and her tax return was denied. This short documentary exposes that injustice to the world.”
In CVANCARA v. COMMISSIONER, T.C. Memo. 2013-20, all the memorandum opinion says regarding this is that “We find that the Mars Snickers bar is personal.” This short sentence wound up to be a 3 minute and 17 second YouTube video.
However, there are other personal items that the Court found , which are listed separately in the notes to the table, and which altogether total $113.53, including the two dollar Snickers bar.
- children’s medicine
- drinks
- coffee and water
- candy, drinks, and medicine
- coffee
- coffee
- coffee
- coffee
- infant formula and cookies
- coffee and the coffee cake
- chocolate
- backpack and the soda
- infant bottle
- mocha drink
- shampoo
- gum and chocolate
- the Sunday paper
- coffee
- medicine
In that same table, the Court allowed $1,308.79 as business expenses. Apparently, her tax return was not denied. Whether this constitutes injustice to the world depends, I guess, on how one defines injustice, and how much you like chocolate!
Mars does their part, by the way, in tackling social injustice.
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