Product Description

Fully revised and updated, this guide is aimed at all businesses, independent professionals and contractors, freelancers, and home and Internet businesses. The hundreds of tax breaks listed are not loopholes or questionable areas of the law, but legitimate business deductions that accountants forget to ask their clients about or that the IRS chooses not to mention on its tax forms.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1057287 in Books
• Published on: 2001-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 220 pages

Customer Reviews

An alphabetical listing of tax deductions
Now in a fully revised and updated edition, 422 Tax Deductions For Businesses & Self-Employed Individuals by certified public accountant and tax specialist Bernard B. Kamoroff is an alphabetical listing of tax deductions that business owners and the self-employed can apply to save themselves money on their tax bill. Ranging from depreciation of athletic facilities; to the cost buying, feeding, and maintaining a watch dog; to the creation of Medical Savings Accounts, 422 Tax Deductions presents its entries in brief, simple terms which are entirely accessible and "user friendly" for non-specialist general readers. 422 Tax Deductions For Businesses & Self-Employed Individuals is a superbly presented and strongly recommended tax preparation supplement for small business owners and the self-employed.

Use this book ALONG WITH another
Prior reviewers seem to have been disappointed with this book because they expected it to be something that it isn't designed to be. It is an encyclopedia of tax deductions for small businesses. If you're wondering if something is deductible, turn to that page in ths book (deductions are in alphabetical order), and you'll learn whether it's deductible and, if so, what category on your return it should be listed under. There won't be much information about who's eligible to deduct it or what records you need to keep to prove it but it does answer the question I always have of "can I deduct XX?" If you use this along with a general small business tax book, you'll have most of the information you need. I recommend either Kamaroff's Small Time Operator or Jan Zobel's Minding Her Own Business. The JK Lasser small business tax book might be fine too.

Lacks Detailed Content
This book is very vague and general in content. In trying to determine how much of our home office furniture was deductible I looked up "furniture" and the book points you to "Business Assets" and within business assets there is no mention of furniture or like assets. What is written is a short very general list what "might" be deductible. I expected 422 deductions to be "specific deductions" or more importantly "how to determine" the eligibility of deductions. This book is far to vague to understand what is deductible and how to determine the eligibility.