This takes the cake on tacky.....Just. Wow.
DEAR ABBY: At a wedding reception I attended recently, the mother of
the bride gave a sales pitch for her insurance company. She concluded
with the statement that she would now be able to write this off on her
taxes. Was this legitimate? She had numerous clients there, as
well as prospective ones, and gifts with corporate logos for them
stashed in the bathroom. -- TAKEN ABACK IN CALIFORNIA
DEAR TAKEN ABACK: Talk about a "marriage of
convenience." How unbelievably tacky! Actually, my tax experts tell me
that she's not entitled to write the reception off because the
predominant motive of the occasion was not business. Let's hope the IRS
doesn't get wind of it.