Annie Oakley is your tax client and started working a new job as a news anchor a

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Annie Oakley is your tax client and started working a new job as a news anchor at a local television station. She is very enthusiastic about her position but has incurred expenses that she feels she can deduct on her tax return. As a television news anchor Annie Oakley is required to maintain a specified professional appearance as described in the Women’s Wardrobe Guidelines (guidelines). The guidelines provide that the “ideal in selecting an outfit for onair use should be the selection of ‘standard business wear’, typical of that which one might wear on any business day in a normal office setting anywhere in the USA.” The guidelines point out that there is no correlation between the cost of an outfit and its appropriateness for use, and generally a conservative outfit purchased “off the rack” at a local department store is more acceptable than excessively stylish items purchased at a designer boutique. The guidelines also recommend avoiding certain clothing such as those with flamboyant or loud patterns which may be distracting on camera, heavy tweed suits, and outfits with buttons or accessories that are overly large, as television tends to make them look even larger. The general guideline is that Annie Oakley maintains a professional and conservative appearance. She must maintain her hair in a neat and conservative cut and maintain her fingernails at a reasonable length, finished with conservatively colored nail polish. In addition to her duties as a news anchor, which include writing, selecting, and preparing news stories for broadcast, Annie Oakley is required to attend promotional appearances throughout the year. Because she is an ambassador of her station, she must maintain a professional image and demeanor at all times. She is also required to have an overnight bag ready at all times, in the event she is called out of town, in which she maintains several changes of clothing. She wears her business clothing only at work and maintains her business clothing separately from her personal clothing. She explained that the requirement to wear conservative clothing makes her business clothing unsuitable for everyday wear. Annie Oakley purchased most of her business clothing and accessories from typical clothing stores such as Nordstrom’s, Kohl’s, Victoria’s Secret, Macy’s, Old Navy, JCPenney, Sportmart, Casual Corner, DSW, Ann Taylor Loft, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Marshall’s, Charlotte Russe, and other local clothing stores. Annie Oakley’s clothing purchases for work consisted of such items as traditional business suits, lounge wear, a robe, sportswear, active wear, lingerie, cotton bikini and cotton thong underwear, and evening wear. She also had dry cleaning costs. Consistent with the requirement that Annie Oakley maintain a neat, professional, and conservative appearance, and as a part of her community appearances, she incurred considerable expenses for clothing and for maintaining her appearance during the years at issue. Your research assignment will be graded using the following criteria:

1. Recognition of the important facts and issues

2. Correct conclusion

3. Proper citation of relevant sources

if you use outside sources can you please site the sources. I am trying to understand the project

Explanation / Answer

1. Recognition of the important facts and issues

Answer : Here in above case Annie Oakley is media person . Following are the important issues & facts .

a) Annie Oakley works as a Anchor for Local Television

b) She is planning to deduct the tax

c) As a television news anchor Annie Oakley is required to maintain a specified professional appearance.

d) Her appearance is observable so needs to be maintain the nails , dress , hairs etc

e) She is Ambassador of her station

f) Annie Oakley needs to travel anywhere at any time. So her bag must be ready at any time.

g) Annie Oakley purchase her clothes from typical stores which are branded.

f) Annie Oakley wants to reduce the tax on the ref. of expense of clothing

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2. Correct conclusion :

Above case focus on ,

If a person is working in media , then what are the responsibility she has or he has

How she carry herself

What are the personality aspects

Mind preparation about where to go at any time

Dress etiquette

Communication styles

etc

These all are the important aspects necessary when you are working in media industry.

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3. Proper citation of relevant sources

http://www.historynet.com/annie-oakley

http://www.biography.com/people/annie-oakley-9426141

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