The tax laws permit some limited tax breaks for job-related moves, if you meet all the requirements:

1. For any moving expenses to be deductible, your move must have been closely related to the start of work in your new location, in both time and in place.
   
   
2. The distance between your old home and your new job must be at least 50 miles farther than the distance from the old home to the old job. In other words, your new job would have increased your commuting distance by at least 50 miles, if you hadn't moved.
   
   
3. The third and final test for a deductible move is that, if you're an employee, in the first year after you start work in the new location you must work full-time for at least 39 weeks.
   
   If you are self-employed (as a sole proprietor or partner), you must work full time for at least 39 weeks in the first year, and you must also work full time for at least 78 weeks in the first two years.