I used to deduct my actual expenses of attending NSS conventions back
when I was on the Board of Governors all those years. Of course, I did
spend half the convention in board and committee meetings. I never got
audited. Of course, compared to someone attending a professional
conference, expenses of attending a week-long NSS convention are so
minuscule that they would fly under anybody's radar. However, I will
note that the IRS literature says something about not being a
vacation. Just _attending_ something like an NSS convention would
certainly not be deductable.
Grottos and Regions of the NSS (such as the TSA) do not acquire
deductable status by being associated with the NSS. In theory, some
other sorts of NSS groups, such as Projects and Cave Conservancies
(e.g., the AMCS or the TCMA), do. Last I knew, the TSA did not have
its own official non-profit status with the IRS.
Incidentally, although I assume the original query was just carelessly
worded, you don't deduct much of anything from your "income taxes,"
you deduct it from your income on which you compute the taxes. Also,
unless you've got a mortgage or are paying for individual health
insurance yourself, you'll probably find it hard to dig up enough
itemized deductions to exceed the standard deduction anyway.
--Bill Mixon
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