Owning a small business can offer many tax breaks and deductions at the end of the year. Most of these breaks and deductions will come directly from business related expenses.

Examples of these expenses would be:

Rent

Business Travel Expenses

Payroll

Insurance

Taxes

Interest

You can also receive tax deductions for capital expenses.

Examples of these expenses would be:

Equipment Purchases

Property Purchase

Repairs to Equipment or Property

Depreciation of Equipment

Home Business

If you are a new small business owner, chances are you may have a home office. You are able to claim a percentage of your home operating expenses that are used for operating your business. You would just divide up the amount of the home used for the business and take that percentage to take advantage of business operating deductions.

Travel Expenses

You may deduct all expenses for your travel as long as the trip was devoted entirely to the business. So if you incorporate personal travel with your business travel, you must divide up the amount spent for the business travel.

You may also take mileage deductions for the use of your vehicle for business purposes. You can either deduct mileage or deduct the operating expense of the vehicle during business travel.

In order to take these small business deductions they must either be a necessary deduction or an ordinary deduction. This means that an ordinary expense will some how relate to your business and a necessary expense is an expense that will be helpful to your business.

To learn more about deducting small business expenses, visit TurboTax online.

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