This step could save tens of billions of dollars a year by reducing hospital and physician office administrative expenses, as well as health plan back office expense.

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Well, now you can point to Luis Bulas, a Florida accountant, as proof that best work or no, the bathroom is, in fact, not necessarily deductible as a home office expense.

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Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Respondent, Docket No. 18977-09 (downloads as a pdf), filed just this week, U.S. Tax Court Judge Haines agreed with the IRS that taxpayer Luis Bulas was not entitled to a deduction for his use of the bathroom as a home office expense.

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For a start, the office-expense scandals that tainted members of Mr Abe's first government could spread to the entire political establishment: with politicians less able to distribute public largesse these days, fiddling petty expenses is, short of reaching into one's own pocket, almost the only way to be able to entertain loyal constituents when they come calling in Tokyo.

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All too often, these bright and ambitious recruits see work as something to avoid or as a necessary evil to endure prior to winning the lottery, landing a spot on a reality television show, or getting a cushy, high-paying job with a corner office and an expense account.

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We aspire to a life free from long commutes, petty office politics, bosses, and expense reports.

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Their chief grievance was the monopoly of trade and public office held by the Spanish-born, at the expense of locally born criollos.

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Taking your kids to and from school is not a deductible expense even if you stop by the home and school office to say hello to your colleagues.

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Because of technological hurdles and expense, it will be some time before robots are as common in the office as, say, Skype.

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In an unremarkable office building one floor above, Edward Anderson ignores a nasty head cold and scrutinizes the expense budgets of a handful of private companies.

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It would also mock Mr Odinga's new office of prime minister, reintroduced for the first time since independence in 1963, at great expense.

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