{"id":15174,"date":"2023-04-17T15:52:49","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T15:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.accountable.de\/deductions\/clothing-and-accessories\/"},"modified":"2023-04-17T15:52:49","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T15:52:49","slug":"clothing-and-accessories","status":"publish","type":"deduction","link":"https:\/\/www.accountable.de\/en\/deductions\/clothing-and-accessories\/","title":{"rendered":"Deduct clothing and accessories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 id=\"your-clothing-purchases-are-generally-not-deductible\" class=\"wp-block-heading font-degular scroll-mt-32\">Your clothing purchases are generally not deductible.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"font-inter text-base leading-relaxed mb-4 first-of-type:mt-0 text-black wp-block-paragraph\">For income tax, <strong>general-purpose clothing purchases will systematically be rejected by the tax authorities<\/strong>. Therefore, clothes known as \u201ccity dress\u201d, evening\u201d, \u201cceremony\u201d, \u201ctravel\u201d or \u201cleisure\u201d are NOT recommended deductible expenses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"font-inter text-base leading-relaxed mb-4 first-of-type:mt-0 text-black wp-block-paragraph\"><em>It\u2019s clear: deducting your last suit, even if superb &amp; from <em><a class=\"font-inter text-purple underline underline-offset-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paulsmith.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Paul Smith<\/a><\/em><\/em>, <em>from represents a significant tax risk.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"you-can-only-deduct-genuinely-professional-clothing\" class=\"wp-block-heading font-degular scroll-mt-32\">You can only deduct \u201cgenuinely\u201d professional clothing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"font-inter text-base leading-relaxed mb-4 first-of-type:mt-0 text-black wp-block-paragraph\">The only exception is professional clothing imposed, for example, by <em>labor regulations<\/em>. Think of the<strong> lawyer\u2019s robe<\/strong>, <strong>the craftsman\u2019s work uniform<\/strong>: those will be deductible \u2b50\ufe0f.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"font-inter text-base leading-relaxed mb-4 first-of-type:mt-0 text-black wp-block-paragraph\">If you are an artist or performer,<strong> the clothes (&amp; accessories) you buy in view of performing your art will be deductible<\/strong>. The best examples? The clothes you can only wear while performing (<em>dominatrix dresses are welcome<\/em> \ud83d\ude09)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"what-about-the-vat-deductibility-of-clothes\" class=\"wp-block-heading font-degular scroll-mt-32\">What about the VAT deductibility of clothes?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"font-inter text-base leading-relaxed mb-4 first-of-type:mt-0 text-black wp-block-paragraph\">For VAT, the rule is similar:<strong> the deduction will only be possible if the activity carried out by the taxpayer requires the use of these specific professional clothing.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","deduction_tag":[559],"class_list":["post-15174","deduction","type-deduction","status-publish","hentry","deduction_tag-clothes"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Deduct clothing and accessories | Accountable<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.accountable.de\/en\/deductions\/clothing-and-accessories\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Deduct clothing and accessories | Accountable\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Your clothing purchases are generally not deductible. 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