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Business Expenses

What's deductible as a business expense? This common question can be tricky to answer. Here's what you need to know about keeping tracks of your business expenses and determining if they are deductible for tax purposes.

Deductible Business Expenses

Self-employed entrepreneurs incur many common business expenses that are fully deductible against their business income. Find out which business expenses are deductible, and which are partly deductible, for federal tax purposes.

Business Expenses

Generally speaking, a business expense has a legitimate business purpose. That's good news, because most business expenses will be fully tax-deductible, and will lower your taxes. Some expenses, however, are only partially deductible, and some expenses are never deductible.

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