Related: Robert Reich posted earlier today that Tesla paid ZERO taxes on $5 billion in sales (earnings?), so that’s just fucking great.

Microblog post saying “so funny how the US govt desperately needs
25% of the $2500
I made on a small creative project, but won't tax any of jeff bezos $239.4 billion”
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[–] 6 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

I am also not an accountant, but in my country even a failed business project is still a business project. E.g you run an IT consultancy and suddenly decide you need to do something with AI. Wellll now that gaming PC with a really over the top GPU is actually a business purchase because you NEED that VRAM. AI project didn't do all that well? Oh well, shit happens. Keep the PC tho, maybe you'll need it for another project soon.

Home office is another fun one. In my country, you have to decide what % of different purchases are for business vs living use, for tax-free expense compensations. But the interesting thing is, you can go really in depth with that. 20-40% of your toilet paper could be business usage reasonably, depending on what percent of awake time is spent working vs not working.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    As far as I understand it, these can all be written off in America under the same pretense. The only difference is the paperwork is a lot more complicated. Most of what you're describing is handled in the 1040 Schedule C

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