The reason for this seems clear: Taxpayers who receive all their income from salaried employment can only deduct business expenses up to 2% of their adjusted gross income, but the self-employed have no such limitation, giving them more wiggle room for writeoffs.

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Yet even with these findings, the team knew that a crucial limitation of their work was that all of the data were self-reported by the people doing the praying.

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