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Ninth Circuit court rejects arguments that children's religious school tuition should be tax deductible

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Title: Ninth Circuit court rejects arguments that children's religious school tuition should be tax deductible
Date: Friday, 12 December 2008
Publisher: MarketWatch
Main source: justice.gov
Tags: Internal Revenue Service (IRS) • Legal • MarketWatch • Michael and Marla Sklar • Nathan J. Hochman • Tax matter

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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit today rejected taxpayers Michael and Marla Sklars’ argument that they were entitled to claim deductions for tuition and fees paid to their children’s Orthodox Jewish day schools, the Justice Department announced. The Sklars sought charitable deductions under section 170 of the Internal Revenue Code for portions of their tuition payments made to the religious day schools their children attended, asserting that those portions of the tuition payments were for “intangible ... [Read the rest at justice.gov]