The advantages of certain whaling captains

Yes, I'm a slacker and am just now doing my taxes. I bet my dad still hasn't done his, though. To be fair, I attempted to use the IRS's free fillable forms and submit electronically over the weekend, but the forms sucked and my return was rejected because there was invalid data in "the field." One of the many, many fields I'd filled in.

So I'm redoing them today—not the best way to spend a day off, but I'm getting money back, so I might just use the rest of the day to spend it. I wasn't sure if I had to submit receipts for my charitable contributions, so I looked it up in the 1040 instructions, and came across this:

"Certain whaling captains may be able to deduct expenses paid in 2008 for Native Alaskan subsistence bowhead whale hunting activities."

It's funny, I almost always forget about whaling captains while I'm doing my taxes, and then bam! There they are right in the instruction booklet.

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