yes, so is hosting, your computer hardware (although usually better to depreciate hardware) software, office supplies, a percentage of your rent / mortgauge if you use an area exclusivly for work, light bill, phone bills, heat bill (all a percentage based upon the amount of space you use for work)
I suggest you go to an accountant, along with knowing more about what you can deduct, it also greatly lessens you chance of an audit
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Any god damn thing you put up money for to run your business is tax deductable. This means everything that has been said, business dinners, travels, hotels whatever, if its for your business you deduct it!
If you are spending $15k in a year on content for galleries...you are probably overpaying a bit. Heh. You can get one of those content blowout deals for $2k and have 100,000 high quality images. That's years worth of galleries.
Originally posted by Rictor If you are spending $15k in a year on content for galleries...you are probably overpaying a bit. Heh. You can get one of those content blowout deals for $2k and have 100,000 high quality images. That's years worth of galleries.
Hmmm, I would rather cut a check to a provider for the other 13k and have good content, than cut a check to the IRS for jack shit.
It's a business expense like any other...hell, I was able to write off dildos I used on shoots! (Classified as "Production Equipment")
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The best answer you had yet in this thread is to go see a good accountant. Depreciation - rates and qualifying items - is a very complex topic. Sometimes you have to apply depreciation. Sometimes you may want to.
The IRS count as depreciable "property that wears out or becomes obsolete and it must have a determinable useful life substantially beyond the tax year." There are some basic requirements and rules about specific items, but generally you can expense up to around $100,000 during the year of purchase via a Section 179 deduction.
So the short answer is almost certainly that you can write off the $15,000, but there are several reasons it might be better to depreciate rather than to write off. To enhance your credit, you might want to show a higher income. Running a business you might want to sell, assets plus a higher income look good. An accountant who is advising you on tax planning might recommend it.
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