[occamrazor]

Are extortion payment and “protection fees” to mob groups already tax deductible? Ransomware payments aren’t qualitatively different.

[casefields]

Maybe: https://taxfoundation.org/irs-guidance-thieves-drug-dealers-...

[toomanybeersies]

Yep, losses due to theft are deductible [1], including blackmail, extortion and "kidnapping for ransom".

[1] https://www.irs.gov/publications/p547#en_US_2020_publink1000...