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Tax Tips Small Business

Turning Interest Payments Into Tax Deductions

Make interest payments work for you, not against you

You can deduct business-related interest on your business return if you used the borrowed funds to purchase business supplies, equipment, services, etc. Co-mingling business and personal expenses makes it difficult to determine what amount of the interest is business versus personal. If this happens, the IRS may consider the entire amount as nondeductible personal interest and disallow the deduction. Therefore, keep all business purchases made with loans and credit cards clearly separate from your personal expenses. Use a separate credit card for your business to make it easier.

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Small Business Quick Tip

The Social Security wage base increases to $102,000 in 2008, up from $97,500 for 2007. This means that you are no longer required to withhold social security tax for employees after meeting this threshold. However, you are required to withhold Medicare taxes regardless of the amount of wages paid.
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Tax Tips Personal

Divorced?
Know the rules before claiming a dependent

If you are a divorced or separated parent, the rules for determining which one of you can claim the children as dependents is confusing at best. A few years ago, the IRS created rules that provided a uniform definition of a child for purposes of claiming certain tax benefits such as the head of household filing status, the child tax credit, the dependent care credit, arid the earned income tax credit.
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Personal Quick Tip

 

Beginning January 1, 2008, the standard mileage rates for the use of a car (including vans, pickups, or panel trucks) are:
  • 50.5 cents per mile for business miles driven (58.5 cents per mile for miles driven after July 1, 2008);
  • 19 cents per mile for all miles driven for medical or moving purposes (27 cents per mile for miles driven after July 1, 2008); and
  • 14 cents per mile for all miles drive for charitable purposes.