Business Deductions
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- Home Office Deduction
- Meal and Entertainment Expenses
- Organizational Costs and Start-up Costs
- Qualified Plan Awards
- Schedule C Expenses
- Section 197 Intangibles
- Should You Sell or Trade in Your Car?
- Start-up Costs
- Travel Expenses
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- Per Diem Rates - IRS Publication 1542 Oct 2011 for Travel Within the Continental U.S (for employers who pay a per diem allowance to employees)
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Travel Expenses
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Business Conventions and Seminars
If you deduct expenses to attend a convention, make sure you can show that the business discussed at the convention was related to your business.
Investment Conventions
Expenses of attending investment conventions and seminars are generally not deductible.
Video Tapes Received at a Business Discussion
If you only receive a videotape or a business discussion to be viewed at some later time at your discretion and there is no other business-related activity at the convention, the cost of attending the convention is not deductible.
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Travel Expenses: IRS Meal Allowance; If Employer is a Relative; Daily Meal Allowance Amount; Travel Expense Records You Must Keep; Transportation Industry Workers
Related Links
- Domestic Per Diem Rates
- What Are Travel Expenses?
- Who May Deduct Travel Expenses?
- Items Included in Travel Expenses
- Tax Terms You Need to Know-Ordinary and Necessary Expenses
- Tax Terms You Need to Know-Tax Home Defined
- Tax Terms You Need to Know-Tax Home Example
- Tax Terms You Need to Know-Transient and Away From Home Test
- Personal Expenses
- Expenses of a Spouse, Dependent, or Other Individual
- Entertainment Expenses of Non-Employees
- Entertainment Expenses of Non-Employees-Example
- Employee Travel Expenses
- Employer Error Reporting Travel Expense Reimbursement on Form W-2
- Employee Accountable Plan
- Commuting Costs
- When You May Deduct Commuting Costs
- Temporary Work Locations and Commuting Expenses
- Temporary Work Location-Example
- What if Your Expectations for the Length of Time to Work Changes?
- Professionals Traveling to Clients' Sites
- Claiming the IRS Meal Allowance
- Travel By Cruise Ship
- Business-Vacation Trips Inside the U.S.
- Business-Vacation Trips Outside the U.S.
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