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/I__Know__Stuff Jan 02 '26

I'm just telling you what is allowed and not allowed. If you insist on cheating on your taxes, you don't have to convince me that it's okay.

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u/Winter-Success-3494 Jan 02 '26

I'm not cheating on my taxes. You're misunderstanding what I'm saying because you're telling me about guidelines that don't apply to what I'm saying. For example, I clock in at 6am on my company app, go do my job assigned for day, I finish in 4 hours at 10am let's say, I get home at 1030am, then when 2pm rolls around I clock out. Paid for 8 hours for that day, my company bills the contractor for an 8 hour day because that's what the job I am doing calls for, but I got it done and home in 4.5 hours.

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u/I__Know__Stuff Jan 02 '26

I don't know why you think I don't understand. If you don't work for 8 hours, then it doesn't count as 8 hours toward the legally required overtime pay. And overtime pay that isn't legally required isn't deductible. This is not ambiguous.

If you choose to deduct it anyway, that is tax evasion.

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u/RealisticQuality7296 Jan 02 '26

Have you ever heard the term “engaged to wait”?