Donating Criminal Case Records Not Tax Deduction

Jones v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 2009 WL 794481 (3/27/09) )(Published) - The attorney for Timothy McVeigh could not claim as a tax deduction his donation of records the government gave to him as part of the discovery in Mr. McVeigh's case. The papers were "letters, memos, or similar property held by the taxpayer for whom such property was prepared or produced," and therefore could only be deducted if the taxpayer had paid something for them, which he had not.