Death of parent in another country...

[taxguy057]

Same client in my last post about education credit father died last year. My client is from India and that is where his father unfortunately was killed in a car accident. My client had to fly to India twice to make arrangements for burial. He paid for those expenses as well as some medical expenses the father had as a result of the accident. Can the son get any relief taxwise due to this large out of pocket expense of traveling abroad to handle his father's affairs??

Again thx for any input...

TG

[jasdlm]

Can't think of a thing unless you are doing Father's 1041 or Father qualified as Son's dependent. Were you thinking of anything specific?

[Pacun]

Nothing for burial expenses.

[kcjenkins]

It's hard to think of a more personal reason for a trip than that one. No deduction.

[taxguy057]

Thx to all for ur input... I pretty much knew the answer already but it did seem worth sending it out to the professionals.... Thx!!