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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
You're accountant should be able to get you on expenses and any legit staff you needto attend shows for legit business reasons.
Getting the wife, family through is dodgy. So are meals and any entertainment.
What does your business do? A really important question.
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You have no idea how American taxes work. You go to a show, collect your receipts, and write them off on your taxes. The IRS doesn't look at your receipts and say "Gee, this plane ticket is for your wife and she's not an employee". In the event you do get audited you say "Well my wife does the affiliate support and we thought it would be good for her to meet the affiliates".
In my case, technically, I am my own company - an LLC - and my wife is the Vice President. While my wife doesn't do any work she is very much involved in the management and strategic planning for the company. It's very official; We have monthly meetings where we take notes and write them up (and then charge off the meal).