Reimbursment of Travel Expenses

[Patrick Michael]

Client has a child that required a bone marrow transplant several years ago.  They have to travel to the Mayo Clinic every year for check ups.  In 2014 a charity reimbursed my client for travel expenses and issued a 1099-MISC (not sure why the organization did that)  with the amount of the reimbursement in box 7 (Nonemployee Compensation).  So, I'm not sure the best way of report this to avoid a CP2000 notice.  I was thinking of placing the amount of reimbursement on a Schedule C-EZ  as income and then reporting an equal amount of expense to zero it out.  She does have receipts to show that the actual travel expenses exceeded the reimbursement.  Am I on the right track or is there a better way to handle this?

 

As always, thanks for the input.

 

Pat

 

[schirallicpa]

I had similar case where non-profit issued 1099 to client for travel to Roswell.  Did exactly that -

[Patrick Michael]

Thanks.