Dennis Hicks and his team have been filing Traveling Nurse income tax returns since 1992. Our clients mail, email, and fax their tax information from all over the country. The majority of our nurse clients continue to utilize our services long after they have stopped traveling.

Hicks Financial Services was featured in Shalon Kearney’s "Hitting the Road – A Guide to Travel Nursing." Our firm has been interviewed by numerous nursing publications on how to maximize the deductions of a healthcare traveler. We offer a full service year round accounting firm. Our areas of expertise extend well beyond nursing, making us valuable allies to our client’s, whether it be a first time home purchase, a new baby, retirement or questions regarding your rewarding career as a healthcare traveler.

This section has some general information for those in the nursing profession. Please contact us for more information.

What are some things a Nurse can deduct?

• RN license fees (all states)
• Dues and subscriptions (AAA, nursing publications, etc.)
• Malpractice insurance
• Continuing education expense
• Student Loan Interest
• Uniforms & dry cleaning expense
• Union Dues
• Shoes
• Nursing supplies (stethoscope, calculator, etc.)
• Computer
• Internet expense
• Cell phone
• Parking fees & tolls
• Job search cost (airfare, faxes, Fed EX, medical test, etc.) Hotel expenses while driving from home to different assignments & returning home
• Long distance calls
• Travel mileage from home to an assignment & other assignments during the year (mileage to and from work while on assignment is not deductible, it is considered commuter mileage).

The traveling contract is the first step necessary to begin an assignment (which we require for our records) and helps verify residency status. Some examples of proof of permanent residency status are:

• Car registration
• Bank account
• Registered voter
• Property owner

What additional information do we need from you?

• Date of birth
• Dates of assignments and dates you returned home
• Copies of nursing contracts and extensions
• Amount of reimbursements received from your travel company
• Address of permanent place of residence
• Include county and school district if applicable
• Address of current residence
• Contact information (cell phone #, travel, & home)
• Email address
• Copy of prior year tax returns (if not prepared by HFS)