While the Boston Bruins may not have won a Stanley Cup since 2011 when they defeated the Vancouver Canucks in Game 7, they achieved an off-ice victory last month when they faced off against the Internal Revenue Service in U.S. Tax Court.
The issue in the case was the deductibility of 100 per cent of the cost of player and staff meals when the Bruins played their away games in city arenas throughout the U.S.
and Canada. The Bruins stayed at hotels when visiting away cities and contracted with the hotels to provide the pregame meals to players and team staff. The Bruins’ owners deducted 100 per cent of the cost of the pregame meals at away games, totaling US$256,000 in 2009 and US$284,000 in 2010.
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