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Make arrangements to pay the bill in installments, and remember to ask your lab to get authorization prior to any future lab testing.If you can get a written statement from the ordering physician, that states the justification for the lab work, you can appeal the claim with the insurance company. Sometimes, insurance companies do what is easiest —not what is right, nor ethical.Last (but not least), you can take all unreimbursed/unpaid medical costs off next year's income tax return, IRS Form 1040, Schedule A.

Most likely the $1,000 in "chore money" from Mom would be treated by any normal IRS agent as a gift and not subject to tax. I would not include this on my tax return. See IRS Frequently Asked Questions on Gift TaxesYou cannot issue a Form 1099-MISC for household help. It's against IRS rules, so your mother should not do this. However, if you mother issues you a W2 as household help and reports it under her Form 1040 Schedule H, then you would need to claim it, but there is no reason for your mother to do this. She gains no tax benefit, and she makes you liable for taxes unnecessarily. See Taxpayer Bill of Rights - The Right To Pay No More than the Correct Amount of Tax Of course, without the family relationship, you would be classified as a household employee and the wages would be subject to tax. Your employer would have to report it on her return and pay her half of the FICA tax (which is done with the Schedule H mentioned above). In many states, she would also be subject to household unemployment insurance. For example, in Illinois she would need to file a Form UI-HA and pay the taxes due to IDES. So, if she fires you, you can possibly make an unemployment claim.Also, all of this assumes that she paid you directly and not through a trust. There are possibly some other unlikely factors that could change the answer. But, I believe this is the most straightforward answer to your question of how to treat allowance money.==EDIT==Cancel everything I said above and read through Topic 756 Employment Taxes for Household EmployeesIf you pay cash wages of $1,900 or more for 2015 (this threshold can change from year to year) to any one household employee, you generally must withhold ...............Do not withhold or pay Social Security and Medicare taxes from wages you pay to your child who is under age 21,Since we're talking about an amount under $1,900, then these payments do not need to be treated this as employment. Just report the $1,000 on line 21.

You've answered your own question. If it's used for the business, expensing a PC or laptop is allowed under 'safe harbor’ rules, recently changed in our amazingly simple tax code. I like spending pre-tax money too. Here's the way to do at least $2500 (but can be pushed beyond that):Annual Tax StatementTo use this rule you should attach the following statement to your tax return:“Section 1.263(a)-1(f) De Minimis Safe Harbor ElectionYour name _________________Your address __________EIN or Social Security Number __________For the year ending December 31, 2015 I am electing the de minimis safe harbor under Treas. Reg. Section 1.263(a)-1(f) for my business expenses of less than $2,500.”I would recommend entering these expenses on IRS Form 1040 Schedule C, Part V Other Expenses. Add up all the items you are deducting under this rule and put them on one line and call them “De minimis safe harbor expenses.”This rule must be elected each year you want to use this rule. So, you need to attach a similar statement to your tax return for each subsequent year you purchase items costing more than $200 and less than $2,500.You can start using this rule for your 2016 taxes. However, the authors of the rule also said that if you use it on your 2015 taxes and are audited, the IRS won’t challenge you. Talk to your tax preparer if you want to use this rule for 2015.If the item is purchased as part of a larger home improvement, it must be added to all the costs associated with the improvement and depreciated over 39 years. For example, if you bought a $400 bathroom sink as part of remodeling your bathroom, you’d have to depreciate it over 39 years along with the rest of the cost of the remodeling. If you only replaced the sink you could deduct it in one year.