A llist of business expenses to track for taxes from my Accountant

Amanda,
You could get a super nice couch sleeper with the money you would save.

Ahhh, a fouton couch/bed! that solves that problem!

Super helpful and timely !

Thank you

I have one whole wall in the family room...but that probably does not count! I don't doubt that I take up 11% of my house with my face painting stuff!

amen!

Ditto on the amen! I get spread out all over the house and then the sinks in the bathrooms and kitchen will have paint splatters everywhere. My desk has splatters all over it and my lap top even gets pain on it as I watch youtube videos and paint at the same time. I think I use more like... about 70% of my house. My pillow has even gotten paint on it due to late night practice and being too tired to get it all off.

I am in Canada and the way I track and report my car/gas/mileage is I buy a purse calendar and whenever I go anywhere for business, I mark my km. At the end of the year, I tally up the km and mark them down as .52/km.
My brother in law is a CA and he is the one that does this for me. I have never had any issues. If I am audited, I have receipts and work contracts to co-inside with all the mileage booked.
Hope this helps.

Shannon, I took an intro to book keeping course here in Ontario last fall, they did say that if you have ANYTHING in the room other than work, or if the room is ever used for other purposes, it can't be claimed as an office. Eg A dining room that is taken over by office but still has a table and is used on Holidays, or the spare bedroom that is an office except when guests are over...

If your clowning and doing characters too along with your face painting you can file as an entertainer then you can take off everything you get inspiration from books, mags, newspapers, cable or satellite tv, movies. So how can they say you can't have a tv in your office? How else but from you guys and our wii can we figure out how to paint Mario, Sonic, and Zelda.