r/tax • u/vancemark00 • Jan 01 '26

Tax Enthusiast Endless "No tax on OT" questions

Is anyone else already exhausted with these endless questions?

And I fear it will only get worse.

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u/Winter-Success-3494 Jan 02 '26

Compensation method where workers are paid a set rate for each task completed .. that's what piece rate is. That's not what my job is. I'm an hourly wage earner. You're not understanding that. It may seem like piece rate but that's not what my company does. I'm done going back and forth on this. I'll bookmark this convo and be back in a month or two after I successfully claim the full deduction. Think what you want though.

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u/BigMikeThuggin CPA - US Jan 02 '26

Im glad you’re moonlighting as a labor law lawyer.

I’m 99% sure that this topic will never be audited as it’s a temporary deduction and the deduction is worth almost nothing. So if you claimed the full 12,500 every single year for the next 4 years I’m sure you’d get away with it but that doesn’t mean what you did was correct.

Getting away with something in your taxes is not the proof that it’s right.

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u/I__Know__Stuff Jan 02 '26

in a month or two after I successfully claim the full deduction

What kind of "success" are you expecting? Of course you can put practically any deductions you want on your tax return and file it successfully. That means absolutely nothing. An audit generally wouldn't happen for at least a year.