I took a deduction this year I've never done in the past. I used tournament fishing as a second job and wrote off all my expenses.
I've never done this before, this is my hobby and I do not consider it a "job", but my brother and I won several thousand dollars each (team fishing) and we were givin 1099's.Sooooo, taxes had to be paid.
I don't know why, but at first it gave me a weird feeling...like I was doing something wrong. I keep up with all my expendatures anyway and the total is several thousand dollars per year.....Fishing is an expensive hobby...LOL
Saved me some money but honestly, it makes me sad to think, because of our idiotic tax code, I had to consider this and act upon it.