Professional Memberships? How does your Institution handle them?

[polly_mer]

You folks do know you can deduct from your taxes professional membership fees and other unreimbursed professional expenses, right?  Keep good records and it's straightforward.  If individuals don't have enough expenses of this type to itemize, then the assumption in many quarters is it's not big enough to complain about.

The federal tax deduction for unreimbursed employee expenses was eliminated by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.

Bummer.  Clearly, I only skim my tax return that we pay someone to prepare.

[waterboy]

I always find this sort of question fascinating. Never, ever would have occurred to me to have my institution pay for memberships. I must be slower than I thought I was.

[Ruralguy]

Well, most of them don't., so that would make you efficient and not slow.

It's probably only private schools that get little federal grant money but have enough money to give the benefit that do this...probably not a large set.