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The 3rd edition is completely updated with all the latest tax information and numbers for 2007, and provides new information on tax planning.
Home Business Tax Deductions also covers how to avoid being classified as a hobby business, steer clear of home-business tax scams, stay out of trouble with the IRS andtake special deductions if your business loses money.
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"Keep more of your hard-earned money! Tax deductions are essential to any business, but even more so when your office is also your home. You can spend thousands on an accountant -- or you can turn to Home Business Tax Deductions and do it yourself! Home Business Tax Deductions will help you write off: your home office start-up and operating expenses vehicles and travel entertainment and meals health insurance and medical bills inventory equipment and much more The 2nd edition is completely updated to provide the latest information and tax numbers for 2006. Home Business Tax Deductions also covers how to avoid being classified as a hobby business, steer clear of home-business tax scams, stay out of trouble with the IRS and take special deductions if your business loses money. "
Customer Reviews:
Great help for Schedule C and 8829.......2007-01-12
I'm working on my schedule C and 8829 and every so often I get to a question I don't understand. I go to the IRS instructions and their web site and it's as clear as used motor oil. It's enough to drive you insane.
Picked up this book and it's spelled out in plain English. No need to read a passage five times to understand.
As others have stated, you need this BEFORE you start your business and you need it a year before you do your taxes. In other words, it will help you along with your 2006 return and you can learn from it on how to do a better job for 2007 by keeping the right documents and receipts in order to get even bigger legitimate deductions. I know I wish I'd had this book last year!
With that said, this is not a line-by-line assistant for Schedule C and the 8829 which I wish it was at times. There are just times when the IRS uses a specific term on a specific line and it would help to have a layman's definition at hand. I didn't get that with this book. Nonetheless, it's been one of the best sources of information I've found for doing one's self employment tax forms.
Good.......2006-12-17
If you're in business for yourself, you better buy this book. It wasn't as complete as I thought it should be. But I did learn that I was not taking all the deductions that I could. So it more than paid for itself.
Suggested reading.
Home Business Tax Deductions Review.......2006-07-31
This is a great book and well worth the money. It is well layed out and organized. I found it easy to find information. It is very detailed and covers all the basic information needed to get a small business started. The book is well written in that it explains everything in an easy to understand manner.
Very helpful and easy to use........2006-03-13
This book was very helpful and used language and a format that made it easy to follow and understand. I was left with some questions but mostly because of the unique qualities of my business.
The Written Rules and the Real Rules in Plain English.......2005-11-08
This book starts off with a very good description of what this book is all about: John and Jane both gross $50,000 a year. John gets $40,000 after taxes, Jane gets $45,000. The difference - John works for someone and goes into work. Jane works at home and gets to deduct her home office expenses.
The IRS allows you to deduct your expenses of maintaining a home office. At the same time, the IRS rules are fairly comples, and home office expenses are often overstated or subject to outright fraud. So the IRS tends to look at them fairly carefully, they have been known to come to your house to see what your office looks like.
This book, updated to be current for 2006, explains the rules as written down, the rules as actually followed and gives you some tips as to what you should, shouldn't, must, and mustn't do. Beyond the official rules, which are messy enough, there are more or less unknown rules, i.e. computer software that you buy is written off one way (well actually two or three ways), software you create, either for yourself or for sale, is handled quite differently.
This book is well written, simple to read and up to date with current law.
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Why the wealthy stay wealthy.......2006-07-24
This book is a great source of information and gives indication and confirms why the wealthy stay wealthy. They know how to keep their money by minimizing and calculating business writeoffs and this book will demonstrate how regular folk can do the same thing!!!
This is a great book.......2004-04-04
I'm currently a tax preparer and I found this book to be one of the best tax books on the market. It is very easy to read and understand. I recommend that every tax payer reads this book and start savings thousands of dollars on taxes.
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- Completely updated for all the new tax laws
- Capitalize on every deduction!
- Sole proprietor, corporation, or partnership?
The Ultimate Guide to Running a Tax-Efficient Home-Based Business
The advantages of operating a home-based business are countless, but what many owners don't realize, and are often not prepared to handle, are the host of complex tax issues surrounding a home-based business. The completely updated Fifth
Edition of J.K. Lasser's Taxes Made Easy for Your Home-Based Business clarifies the current tax environment with regard to home-based businesses, and shows you how to make the most of the new tax laws.
This perennial guide answers home-based business owners' questions, with a special focus on the changing tax laws and deductions for the home office. Expert advice and in-depth insights will help you avoid costly mistakes and take advantage of opportunities you would otherwise miss.
Critical coverage will help you:
- Navigate the details of the new tax laws and IRS rules
- Increase your knowledge of deductible expenses
- Keep your records up to IRS standards
- Organize and run a home-based business for maximum tax benefits
- Make filing easy by utilizing sample tax forms
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The best starting point for Home-based Businesses.......2004-01-18
This book, without any doubt, is the best starting point around for those of us who are starting a home-based business. However, words of warning:
-This is a reference. Do not assume you know all there is to know to your particular situation only by reading it. There is no good substitute for an accountant to help you with your business taxes, if not on an on-going basis, at least in order to get you going the first time you do your biz taxes.
-Watch for past editions. I ran into the 4th edition, and given changes in tax legislation, it is unwise to base any decisions on outdated (tax) information. Make sure you always read the latest edition of this book.
This said, I highly recommend this book for any business owner starting his/her business from home. It will give you a very good perspective on what to expect, what things you can change/improve to take full (and legal) advantage of the benefits the tax legislation offers to small business owners.
Excellent Introduction to Taxes For Your Home-Based Business.......2003-07-30
"J.K. Lasser's Taxes Made Easy For Your Home-Based Business: The Ultimate Tax Handbook For the Self-Employed" by Gary W. Carter is a great book for home-based business owners and especially for those who operate as sole proprietors.
I found the first chapter, "Legislative, Administrative, and Judicial Authority" a bit slow and skipped most of it. (It's well-written and authoritative. I just don't care too much about the internal workings of the tax system).
Discussing the Supreme Court, Carter writes: "...the Supreme Court has complete discretion over whether it will hear a case. A party requests a hearing by Writ of Certiorari. If at least four members of the Court believe the issue is of sufficient importance to be heard by the Court it will grant the Writ (cert. Granted). Most often, however, it will deny jurisdiction (cert. Denied). ..."
But, it sounds like denied Writs aren't completely bad. Carter continues: "Furthermore, even when the Supreme Court steps in and handles a tax case, its decision often has the effect of muddling the issues rather than clarifying them, leaving us even more confused and bewildered. ... [Y]ou can see that the answers to tax questions often are not clear-cut. Sometimes, when the IRS says no, the courts say yes; or some courts say yes and other courts say maybe. Having an appreciation for this puts you at an advantage when dealing with the IRS. You should never submit to an IRS agent's adjustment of your returns unless it is backed up by appropriate authoritative support. The next section tells you how to find the various sources of authority."
Carter then shows us how to learn about tax law using online and other resources.
A good section of Chapter One for those facing an audit is "The Audit Process And Your Appeal Rights." But, if you aren't facing an audit, you can probably skip that section also.
Another section of Chapter One I found useful was "Letter Rulings," which discusses how taxpayers can ask the IRS in advance how certain transactions will be treated. (There is a fee for this service. The fee can be more than $5,000, but Carter tells us that for those with income under $150,000 the cost is only $500. And, for business owners asking about business-tax topics, the fee is also $500, if the company's annual revenue is $1 million or less.)
We learn that a letter ruling is actually a contract between the IRS and the taxpayer. So, getting a letter ruling is better than just asking the IRS for general about how something should be treated. And, Carter tells us that because a letter ruling is a contract between that particular taxpayer and the IRS, we shouldn't rely upon someone else's letter ruling to determine how our similar transaction will be treated.
So, if you have a question about how the IRS will treat a certain transaction that means a great deal to you, asking for a letter ruling will clarify the situation for you and provide certainty. You won't wind up at your Writ's end in the process.
Chapter Three introduces the reader to the basic business structures: Sole Proprietorships, Partnerships, LLC's, C-Corporations, and S-Corporations. Various advantages and disadvantages of each business structure are discussed, along with options for retirement plans and information about dealing with health insurance.
A large section of the book discusses the home office deduction and home-specific expenses. For example, deductions for daycare providers are covered as are the rules for being able to claim a deduction for the use of your home.
One chapter covers IRS form 8829, "Expenses For Business Use of Your Home" in detail and another chapter covers automobile deductions.
Chapter 12 works a comprehensive example, showing a sole proprietor's tax returns, including the IRS Form 1040, Schedule A, Schedule C (the heart of a sole proprietorship business), Schedule SE (for Self-Employment tax), Form 4562 "Depreciation and Amortization," and Form 8829.
The chapter "Other Common Business Deductions" covers deducting meals, entertainment, computer software, magazine subscriptions, and books.
For example, we learn that the Section 179 deduction (which allows a taxpayer to write-off as a current year expense the cost of certain assets that are normally depreciated over a number of years) doesn't apply to software, because Section 179 only applies to tangible property, and software is intangible.
Carter writes: "If you purchase books for business or investment purposes having only short term value (a tax guide like this one, for example), you can deduct their entire cost in the year of purchase. Books of a more lasting value are seven-year property for depreciation purposes. ... Because books are tangible personal property, they qualify for the Section 179 election if they are purchased for business purposes...make the Section 179 election by putting them in Part I of Form 4562..."
Carter gives a great quote from lawyer and writer John Grisham: "It's a game. We [tax lawyers] teach the rich how to play it so they can stay rich-and the IRS keeps changing the rules so we can keep getting rich teaching them."
If you want to learn how to play the small business tax game, "J.K. Lasser's Taxes Made Easy For Your Home-Based Business: The Ultimate Tax Handbook for the Self-Employed" is an excellent resource. Don't feel you must read this book cover-to-cover. Just jump around finding the stuff that's specific to your own situation.
Peter Hupalo, Author of "Thinking Like An Entrepreneur" & "How To Start And Run Your Own Corporation: S-Corporations For Small Business Owners."
A must for budding entrepreneurs.......2002-12-05
Offers numerous ways to save money on taxes for home-based businesses by educating on deductible expenses, types of accounting methods, how to manage record-keeping, and the latest tax laws to name a few. Lots of examples make the book easy to understand. A real eye-opener.
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Tax Power for the Self-Employed addresses the specific and particular tax laws and regulations facing a self-employed individual. Unlike other small businesses, it focuses on the individual who either runs a single-person small business (or one with an otherwise limited number of employees) or the person who does something to make extra money that he or she may consider a hobby or side job, but from which the IRS expects tax to be paid.
Discussions of specific concern to the self-employed person include Schedule C deductions, with particular emphasis on changes in Sec. 179 deductions that target self-employed individuals for increased capital investments. Additional attention is placed on strategies for taking deductions to lower income subject to the self-employed tax, a totally separate tax from income tax. An entire chapter is devoted to the self-employment tax and Schedule SE.
With the latest IRS rules, regulations and decisions, as well as tax-planning strategies, any self-employed individual can feel confident that they are meeting all of their tax requirements while maximizing their tax savings.
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The ultimate guide to running a tax-efficient home-based business
Today, millions of people are making either a full- or part-time living selling things on Internet auction sites like eBay. Still more are making a living selling products from their homes—think Mary Kay and Avon. If you're just entering the home-based or online business arena, you might not be aware of your potential tax liability.
With J.K. Lasser's From eBay to Mary Kay, leading tax consultant Gary Carter walks you through the challenges of accounting for a home-based business. Topics covered throughout this comprehensive guide include:
- Can you deduct the use of your home?
- Are there ways to avoid taxes entirely?
- What types of taxes might you owe?
- How do you account for your inventory?
- What are the rules on collecting sales and use taxes?
The advantages of operating a home-based business are countless, but many owners don't realize—and are often unprepared to handle—the host of complex tax issues surrounding them. J.K. Lasser's From eBay to Mary Kay will show you how to account for your home-based business and avoid unnecessary tax trouble.
J.K. Lasser—Practical Guides for All Your Financial Needs
Please visit our Web site at www.jklasser.com
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The ultimate guide to running a tax-efficient home-based business Today, millions of people are making either a full or part-time living selling things on eBay. Still more are making a living selling products from their home think Mary Kay and Avon. Many just entering this business are unaware of their potential tax liability. With J.K. Lasser's From Ebay to Mary Kay, leading tax consultant Gary Carter walks readers through the challenges of accounting for a home-based or on-line business. Topics covered throughout this comprehensive guide include: Can you deduct the use of your home? Are there ways to avoid taxes entirely? What types of taxes might you owe? How do you account for your inventory? What are the rules on collecting sales and use taxes? The advantages of operating a home-based business are countless, but what many owners don't realize, and are often unprepared to handle, are the host of complex tax issues surrounding them. J.K. Lasser's From Ebay to Mary Kay will show readers how to account for their home-based business and avoid tax trouble. Gary W. Carter, PhD, MT, CPA (Edina, MN), has more than 25 years of tax experience. He has worked as a revenue auditor and tax practitioner, and is currently on the faculty of the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management. Carter also writes, lectures, operates a tax practice, and conducts seminars on tax issues pertaining to home-based businesses.
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- Detailed coverage of home-office tax laws and IRS rules
- Comprehensive information on deductible expenses
- Keep your records up to IRS standards
- Sample tax forms for easy filing
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THE ULTIMATE TAX GUIDE FOR THE ULTIMATE WORKPLACE!
The desire for independence, the rise in personal wealth, and, most significantly, the impact of the Internet have dramatically increased the number of home-based businesses. Along with this rapid growth comes a host of tax issues. This revised and updated edition of J.K. Lasser's perennial guide answers home-based business owners' questions, with a special focus on the changing tax laws and home-office deductions. Avoid costly mistakes and missed opportunities with the latest expert information offered in this invaluable resource.
Critical coverage will help you:
- Navigate the details of the new tax laws and IRS rules
- Increase your knowledge of deductible expenses
- Keep your records up to IRS standards
- Organize and run a home-based business for maximum tax benefits
- Make filing easy by utilizing sample tax forms
J.K. Lasser-Practical Guides for All Your Financial Needs
Please visit our Web site at jklasser.com
Customer Reviews:
Very Good Information.......2006-12-26
If you're not interested in taxes, you're not really in business...Mike Stokes
Good Guide for checking tax rules.......2002-12-17
This is an excellent guide if you have questions regarding your own home-based business. You can find out what you can deduct and what you can not deduct all from this book.
Most Helpful Book I Bought Before I Started My Business.......2002-03-17
This book was OUTSTANDING. It completely and simply explained everything that I needed to know about taxes, expenses, etc. before I started my business. Most HIGHLY recommend that anyone considering starting a business purchase this book.
A practical guide that provides specific guidelines.......2001-09-09
Reverting back to my comments on Mr. Daily's( Tax Savvy For Small Businesses) and Mr. Kamoroff's(A Small time Operator)reviews, this book coupled with the two previously mentioned books, should provide an outstanding foundation to start off with, as far as what you should and must do to operate a small business when it concerns your tax liability.
This book concentrates more on past precedents passed down by both the Appeals Courts and the Tax Courts, and what procedures can and cannot be implemented. Gives specific instruction in accordance with the IRC code, to follow and to determine what can be done to legally lower your tax liability.
This book is more legally technical than both books I mentioned above. While Daily's book gives you general examples of accounting procedures and legalities, Kamoroff book gets into the nuts and bolts of accounting procedures, along with a step by step guide to implement those procedures. These 3 books should be on every entrepenuer's shelf, for future reference and procedures.
A practical guide that provides specific guidelines.......2001-09-09
Reverting back to my comments on Mr. Daily's( Tax Savvy For Small Businesses) and Mr. Kamoroff's(A Small time Operator)reviews, this book coupled with the two previously mentioned books, should provide an outstanding foundation to start off with, as far as what you should and must do to operate a small business when it concerns your tax liability.
This books concentration is based more on past precedents passed down by both the Appeals Courts and the Tax Courts, and what procedures can and cannot be implemented. Gives specific instruction in accordance with the IRC code, to follow and to determine what can be done to legally lower your tax liability.
This book is more legally technical than both books I mentioned above. While Daily's book gives you general examples of accounting procedures and legalities, Kamoroff book gets into the nuts and bolts of accounting procedures, along with a step by step guide to implement those procedures. These 3 books should be on every entrepenuer's shelf, for future reference and procedures.
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The Complete do it yourself guide to personal and financial survival for the hard years to come. Some of the topics covered in the book are:
- How to start from scratch
- How to raise $60,000 in 24 hours using only your signature as collateral.
- How to raise one million dollars
- How to legally use tax havens and receive tax free income
- How to operate a thriving Export-Import/mail order business with little or no capital
- How to legally obtain foreign citizenships and passports.
- How to make your assets creditor and judgment proof
- How to form your own bank
- How to get free grants from the government
- The Stock Market made easy
- How to obtain A1 credit rating
- How to become CEO or managing director overnight
- How to get out of debt without borrowing or bankruptcy
- What to do when the bank says NO
- Big Brother is watching YOU
- How to be successful in everything you do
- Reliance on God the best ingredient for success
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GREAT - SUPER- SUPER.......2006-10-27
This book is for you ... you know who you are. You need money, you need financial freedom, then read and apply this book in your life. Mr. Salomon my prayers are with you in your time of trials.
As an immigrant to this great country I will surely use this book.
Excellent Book even for Beginners.......2004-07-24
This book has a lot of information in a well written, easy to read style. Beginners can easily understand it, and those already knowledgeable about financial matters will pick up new information. Learn from one who has done it!
A Wonderful Book Written To Perfection!.......2004-07-09
This book is so easy to read that anyone can become financially independent by reading it. I normally don't like books about money-making because they use complicated words and phrases that the Average Joe (or Average Jane in my case) can't understand. This book, however, is written in a way that everybody can understand. Through Eddie Solomon's personal experiences, the reader grows wise even if they're young like I am. It's an excellent book for anyone and is well worth the price. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants a steady financial future (which should be everyone I would think!). Eddie Solomon is a genius but more importantly, he's incredibly generous.
Financial Independence by Eddie Solomon.......2004-06-23
This book cuts through the bull.
I've read many books on this subject and this book stands out as the best of the bunch.
I highly recommend this book to any one who truly wants to begin to understand the true way of financial independence.
Extraordinary book about the true nature of wealth and money.......2004-06-19
Absolutely incredible! Forget everything you think you know about money, banking and commerce. As this book concisely and effectively points out, hardly any of what you think you know about such things is accurate; it's impossible to know what you don't know. In fact, as you read on you quickly realize that if you think about money issues in a "conventional" way, it will greatly diminish if not entirely eliminate your ability to create, sustain and protect wealth.
Step aside Trump, Allen, Getty, et al. Those books are written based on the same regurgitated "wisdom" of the Carnegie's, Rockefeller's and Rothschild's. While the theory of what they write about is true, they inexplicably fail to provide us with the, until now, esoteric keys to wealth creation. In an attempt to keep us always pining but forever unable to duplicate their success, they've in essence, built the house and conveniently, actually intentionally, forgot to give us the all important key. In an apparent mission from God and/or genuine good will, Mr. Solomon has humbly offered up that elusive key.
You have to know how the money and banking industries truly operate in order to properly manage your assets. In an entirely comprehensive and palpable way, the author Eddie Solomon, teaches several different ways to accomplish the same thing: wealth creation, money management and asset protection. This book will challenge even the most "knowledgeable" banking authorities.
It shoots from the hip, unapologetic about revealing the unsavory nature of our friendly neighborhood bankers and still inspires you to accept the ways thing really are, commit to a plan to rise above the nefarious anatomy of our money markets and finally, to realize your god given right to freedom and prosperity.
Daring, provocative, revealing and inspiring; unlike anything I've ever read. In a collection of almost four thousand books, Financial Independence by Eddie Solomon is displayed prominently in this library and subsequently, lent out often and always brought back with rave reviews. This book is a must have for all those looking for financial freedom and an honest perspective of how the world of money works.
Learn how to create Gates, Vanderbilt and Murdoch size wealth. It's all for the taking, once you know how.
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Supplanting confusing technical jargon with practical and easy-to-follow listings, these specialized guidebooks provide expert research in a user-friendly, alphabetical format in order to maximize deductions on tax returns. These portable pocket guides give career professionals—from military personnel and teachers to priests and writers—a single source for finding relevant, money-saving tax deductions. A handy journal to record deductible transactions such as automobile usage, meals, entertainment, and travel expenses is also included in each guide.
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