Kernrechtsfrage
Whether extra car travel costs at midday are deductible business expenses because of the taxpayer's diabetic condition.
Extrahierter Entscheid
No. Costs for health preservation or recovery are personal living expenses, not professionally necessary expenses, even if they may indirectly facilitate work.
Extrahierte Begründung
The court held that the statutory notion of necessary business expenses does not cover special health-related costs. Midday travel above the regulatory limit is generally not professionally necessary; medical or personal conditions cannot transform such expenses into deductible work costs. The taxpayer separately received a special deduction for continued care needs and could not invoke the same illness again under business-expense rules.