How would you interpret the last sentence?
Two airplane tickets purchased, air-coach to Mexico and back, at a cost of $191 each. A breathtaking sum, but all in the line of duty; Arthur Gold (the lawyer) says it can be worked out for some reduction in the tax later on.
How would you interpret the last sentence: it can be worked out for some reduction in the tax later on?
Does it mean they could make the sum of traveling be part of the tax the novelist needed to pay later?
PS: The narrator was a novelist.
Thanks! And it’s from The Lacuna.