Home Business Tax Deductions: Keep What You Earn » (Revised)

Stephen Fishman is the author of many Nolo books, most recently Tax Deductions for Professionals. Other titles include Deduct It! Lower Your Small Business Taxes, Every Landlord's Tax Deduction Guide and Home Business Tax Deductions: Keep What You Earn-plus many other legal and business books. He received his law degree from the University of Southern California in 1979. After time in government and private practice, he became a full-time legal writer in 1983.

Keep your hard-earned money in your home business!

Completely updated for 2010 returns

Tax deductions are essential to any business, but even more so when your office is also your home. Don't spend thousands on an accountant --turn to Home Business Tax Deductions and do it yourself!

Home Business Tax Deductions will help you write off:

1 Some Tax Basics 3

2 Are You Really in Business? 23

3 Start-Up Expenses 51

4 Home Business Operating Expenses 65

5 Deducting Long-Term Assets 77

6 The Home Office Deduction 133

7 Meal and Entertainment Expenses 169

8 Car and Local Travel Expenses 187

9 Business Travel 227

10 Inventory 257

11 Hiring Workers 271

12 Medical Expenses 307

13 Retirement Deductions 343

14 Additional Home Business Deductions 361

15 Record Keeping and Accounting 399

16 Claiming Tax Deductions for Prior years 441

17 Staying Out of Trouble With the IRS 453

18 Help Beyond This Book 469

Index 489