Paul Horwitz has a great post on PrawfsBlawg:  Toward a General Theory of Writing Off the Purchase of a Flat-Screen TV as a Job-Related Expense.  Here is the opening:

I am always humbled and awed by the breadth of law school subjects for which television shows serve as a vital pedagogical resource. 

 

As one who regularly shows clips from The Daily Show, Oprah Winfrey, West Wing, etc. in class, my heart skipped a beat when I saw the headline. Unfortunately, Paul’s tongue is planted firmly in his cheek, and as a non-tax professor he does not offer any way around §§ 262 & 280F.  But I have opened the comment section in case any readers can offer creative tax planning strategies so I can file an amended return to deduct my new Sony.