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Do you fill out your own tax form? Just complete a Schedule C, and you can do the exact same thing. It's called an unreimbursed business expense. No special privilege. Available to anyone who files. Look it up.
That only takes the amount of the expense off of your taxable income. If your unreimbursed business expense was, for example, $500, and you were in a 10% tax bracket (again, hypothetical numbers only!), you wouldn't save $500 on your taxes, you'd only save $50. So, that means that the business trip wasn't paid for by the taxpayers, it was only slightly subsidized.