[Principled]

It's not normal to itemize?

Are you smoking medical marijuana?

[oceanview]

"hardly the norm" with respect to the dishonest practices, the practices you mention are the "norm" and therefore fine.

when someone is setting up a dummy corporation in haiti, or figures out a way to write off every meal they eat, all their clothes, their domicile, their car, their travel expenses, then they have crossed the line.