Recently I had to move locally and I did a DITY move. I decided to pack up everything and unpack and hired a local company to move it all for me. It was around 3,500 lbs and should of been 1,500 bucks. It cost me 500 bucks to hire the company. Anyways I was told I had to put expenses down of the moving company and that money is basically gone. So out of the 1,500 I was automatically down to 1000 and then the govt would take 28% in taxes. So he told me to expect a check of around 700 dollars. But I asked well I just paid 500 to the moving company and that doesnt make sense because the government would be paying me 700 out of the allowed 1,500. I basically had to pay the 500 twice. After explaining this for over 15 minutes he said well I could just not claim it as an expense but they would tax the whole 1,500 at 28% which I said um ok? Its still more money that way than the way you're telling me. Has anyone had any problems with this before? So now I should be getting a check around a grand so I should pocket around 500 of it but the whole process seems jacked up.