From: Mark Lasarko (mlasarko@co.ba.md.us)
Date: Fri Jan 20 2006 - 12:53:25 GMT-3
Greetings John & GS,
...Write off CCIE stuff? Absolutely!
I have had a business established since '99 as a sole proprietorship.
Most of my reasoning at the time was to offset training expenses.
See, I had full-time work I was sure to owe taxes on.
In the meantime I began to see the test fees, books, etc... accrue.
That was just CCNA/DA, Check Point, Nokia, CNE, and MCSE stuff back then.
I was barely looking at the prices of the CCNP/CCDP books and exams;
The bottom line was that I wanted to study more than my employer wanted to pay
for.
So the only logical thing to do was find a way to pay for it, but get it back
in the end!
Little did I know :-)
Back then I had no idea how many $'s would fall...
(into the CCIE [money pit | wishing well])
A couple years later I have a full rack,
More books than I could ever read,
Materials from vendors, all that costly stuff :-)
And some comfort knowing my efforts are "deductible".
My best recommendation:
Go for the biz, schedule C, and the loss in your business income, if any,
can be beneficial, even if the taxes are taken from you or your spouse's job,
if married and filing jointly. (For those spending the family savings on
training!)
Just try and document it all as best you can.
Travel down to the mile, every toll or meal expense on the way.
Maybe even get a separate credit card or open a business account just for
these things.
And if you think you might ever need to resell any hardware
be sure and get your state's sales and tax use ok'd sooner instead of later.
HTH,
~M
>>> "John Matus" <jmatus@pacbell.net> 01/19/06 11:37 PM >>>
does anyone know if you can write off CCIE stuff on your tax returns? i'm
not
quite sure where or how you would do it, but hey..... it is "continuing
education".
Regards,
John D. Matus
MCSE, CCNP
Office: 818-782-2061
Cell: 818-430-8372
jmatus@pacbell.net
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