Questão jurídica principal
Whether weekly lodging costs were deductible as professional expenses despite the possibility of daily return travel.
Decisão extraída
Yes. In this borderline case, daily return from Y to Z was not reasonably practicable, so weekly lodging costs were deductible.
Fundamentação extraída
The court considered the total commuting time, required transfers, limited ability to work on the train, and the taxpayer's substantial professional workload. The question of reasonableness depends on the individual case and not on travel time alone.