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Alright I have kind of a weird situation right now. I already filled out my taxes for both federal and state, took the standard deduction and got my refund. But I was talking to a friend and he gave me some advice and told me I should amend both this year and last years taxes. So heres the story: I was in college until June 2009 at which time I got a job with my current company. My position was to work for 1 year overseas doing 4 90 day trips with about 1 week in between each trip back working in the US office that I am employeed by. The company said they were classifying these as business trips to avoid having to get me a work visa(pretty sure this was illegal in the country I was visiting, but didn't violate and US laws), and instead of getting a 2000 moving allowance I was originally promised, I got a 2000 total classified as per diem expenses for the first 90 day trip, and got no other money from the company for the entirety of the trip. My friend used to be a business accountant, hes in law school now, he told me that I should be able to write off the rent I paid overseas(500 euro a month for 6 months in 2009, and 6 months in 2010) and take the standard daily deduction for meal allowance from the irs website and multiply it by each day I was abroad and take that as a business expense as well. Doing this gives me about 10k of meal expenses and 4k of living expenses to write off for both 2009 and 2010. Does this sound legitimate? What would I need to prove the per diem, just proof of plane tickets for those dates bought by my company? What about my rent? To complicate things I moved from MD to DC in October and never updated my residency, I wasnt really worried about it since it was only 3 months of getting paid, But if I'm ammending two years of taxes I figure I should probably make sure I get this right because I'd imagine the chance of an audit is rather high. I read MD and DC have tax reciprocity or something to prevent me from getting double taxed, but I assume that just means that I will have to get the 3 months of extra MD taxes I paid back and pay them to DC but not have to pay them both, is this correct? Somewhat relatedly, if I pay taxes in DC can I still keep my permanent residence as my parents home MD? Most of my posessions are still there and my car is registered to that address as well, I don't really want to change all of my things to DC since I plan on moving back to MD in August or September. Any advice would be appreciated, I may end up taking this to an actual tax specialist since this does seem to be reasonably complicated and 100 bucks or so vs the thousands of difference I may get in refunds seems to be worth it. The last two years I did my taxes using turbo tax online for free, would going to an h&r block office be a good idea since they most likely have access to all that data?
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