Witchcraft and the IRS

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This article was in the papers today. Think it would work here in the U.S.?

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AP • Reuters • Photos

Witchcraft training gets tax break

Sep 28, 10:04 AM (ET)

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Dutch tax authorities have allowed a woman to deduct the 2,210 euros it cost her to take a one-year course in witchcraft, an inland revenue official said Wednesday.

The 39-year actress and artist learned how to use crystal balls and prepare herbs, and also spells and other witchcraft skills at the course held in the country’s northwest.

“The woman used the training in order to start … giving workshops, so she used it to extend her professional knowledge,” the tax official told Reuters.

Margarita Roland, who gave the course and whose website (http://www.heksehoeve.nl/) shows her with a broomstick and pointed hat, said she teaches apprentices all they need to know to become a witch, using magic as a force for good.

“A witch is a wise woman or man who knows about the magic of life in general and the magic of the earth in particular,” said Roland, known as the “witch of Appelscha” after her home town.
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And THIS is why I’m in the entertainment industry. Next week I’m gonna have the IRS pay for me to take classes in astrology, telekenesis and astral projection! Why? Because you never know when I may be called upon to act in or direct a play where the character has to send his consciousness into another city to bend a spoon with his mind in order to fulfill his self-written horoscope!!

4 thoughts on “Witchcraft and the IRS”

  2. You’re going to direct The Matrix, adapted by Mike Nichols?!
    …It could happen.
    Hey, when you figure that stuff out, teach me that astral projection stuff. I’m gonna project my current self 12 hours into the future and get me some lotto numbers.

    • Now see, that’s a play I’d have a good time directing! Let’s do that.
      And if I could project somebody into the future for lotto numbers, it’d be ME first, then you could have your turn a couple weeks later (after it had built up again!).
      Hey, I won 7 dollars on a lotto ticket the other day! Let’s see, averaging that out at one or two tickets a week, 52 weeks a year, carry the one….I spend about, oh 80 bucks on it, so now I’m only $73 in the hole for this year…

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