Q:

Hello Kerry,

We just bought a some what expensive boat out of our corporation.  We will use the boat both for personal and client entertainment.  Would it be an OK idea to depreciate this asset on our corporate return?

Thanks for your input.

A:

It would be the same as with a car or any other vehicle.

There are a couple of main ways in which it can be handled.

You can just depreciate the business usage percent of the boat’s cost.

or

You can depreciate it as 100% business usage and then you either:
  reimburse the corp for the personal usage

or

include the value of the personal usage in your W-2 wages. 

Kerry

 

Q:

Dear Kerry,

I am now using Quicken for the first time. Is there a way that Quicken can be used to automatically track tax deductible expenses as they are made from my bank account? i.e. can you assign a payee to a ‘category’ (like capital improvements) and then program Quicken to automatically assign all the entries for the designated  ‘payee’ in your check register to the previously designated  ‘category’?  If this is a possibility, and you have any helpful information that can be used to program the system I will be glad to reimburse you for any time you spend discussing the matter with me.

Sincerely,

 A:

I don’t think you can have the program automatically categorize entries that have already been input into the file.  However, with new entries, these will be automatically assigned the proper categories if you have the box checked under “Register Options” that says “Complete Fields Using Previous Entries.”  After you manually make one entry to a payee and assign the appropriate category, all future entries to that same payee will go to the same category.

I hope this helps.

Good luck.

Kerry Kerstetter

Follow-Up

 Kerry –

 Thank you so much. This is extremely helpful.

 I have had almost no success getting useful answers about obvious questions from any of the Quicken support staff.

Take care. 

 

 

Mallard Fillmore reminds us how impossible it is to remove a tax, even more than 100 years after its alleged purpose has disappeared, as well as how much DemonRats hate removing or reducing any taxes.

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What is more telling about the mentality of our rulers is this sub-head:

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As I’ve long explained, the words fairness and taxes cannot be in the same sentence with any credibility.  When it comes to money for our rulers to confiscate from the people, fairness is an entirely inappropriate concept.  Just because the AMT has evolved into an insane, unfair, immoral, unethical, convoluted mess is not reason enough to eliminate it, as long as it is still producing dollars for our rulers to spend.  If our rulers had any concept of decency, travesties like the AMT would be removed without regard for the money involved.