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  • adjektiv
    Confirmed User
    • Jan 2003
    • 381

    #1

    Domain names and Taxes

    If you bought a domain for $2k or something do you write it off over 5 years or how do you list it in your taxes?
    Do you list it as advertising?

    Yes I know I should ask an accountant but she doesn't know and yes I am getting a new one, but I thought I'd ask here anyway.

  • Giorgio_Xo
    Confirmed User
    • Mar 2003
    • 4263

    #2
    Since a domain name can only be leased and you are paying well over the lease price, all overage is considered goodwill which is amortized.
    Make Levees, Not War

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    • 69pornlinks
      Confirmed User
      • Mar 2003
      • 5560

      #3
      i don;t like my taxes going to kill women and kids so i wrote uncle sam and said fuck you
      It IS what it IS

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      • jackson
        Confirmed User
        • Feb 2004
        • 1094

        #4
        Originally posted by 69pornlinks
        i don;t like my taxes going to kill women and kids so i wrote uncle sam and said fuck you
        WAT?


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        • Edguy!
          Confirmed User
          • Mar 2004
          • 1126

          #5
          You could always just say it was for charitable purposes *shrugs*

          That's how I can $4K off my car



          Yes, that was a lie

          $300 off my scooter
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          • adjektiv
            Confirmed User
            • Jan 2003
            • 381

            #6
            Originally posted by Giorgio_Xo
            Since a domain name can only be leased and you are paying well over the lease price, all overage is considered goodwill which is amortized.
            Thank you.

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            • Lifer
              Confirmed User
              • Feb 2004
              • 871

              #7
              You should be able to write it off as an advertising expense.

              You can write it off as a research and development expense, even if you don't develop it.

              It's a business expense and since the cost is so little, just put it under miscellanious expenses on the schedule c on the backside. The cost of the domain is not really going to affect your taxes by more than a dollar.

              But that's what I would do... you need to buy a book on taxes.
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              • Mr.Fiction
                Confirmed User
                • Feb 2002
                • 9484

                #8
                There is no set way to do it. Different accountants will advise writing off domains in different ways and will continue to do so until the government issues some kind of guidance.
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