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Speaker 2: So let's talk about these deductions if we can, some

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Speaker 2: of the deductions that people can take.

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Speaker 1: And obviously the sneakers is not one of them.

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Speaker 3: Sneakers is not one of the.

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Speaker 4: Come on, that is not your uniform.

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Speaker 3: Not a uniform. Okay, So let's talk about first of all,

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Speaker 3: let's get let's get Troy sneakers out the way. Let's

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Speaker 3: talk about how you can make that as a business

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Speaker 3: owner a deduction. If you put if you purchase a

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Speaker 3: then you can now write them off like I've seen

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Speaker 3: you guys with e y y'all sneakers before. That can

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Speaker 3: now make it a tax deduction, right. But you cannot

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Speaker 3: just purchase sneakers, you know, when you were an employee

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Speaker 3: and just be like, oh, because I went to put

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Speaker 3: locker and I brought these sneakers, they are now a

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Speaker 3: tax deduction, right. And that also goes with clothes. So

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Speaker 3: a lot of people will say, well, how can I

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Speaker 3: write off this clothing? So you can write off, you know,

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Speaker 3: clothing that you purchase, however, and you have to stit

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Speaker 3: your logo in it. And it also can't be excessive,

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Speaker 3: like you can't say, oh, I'm gonna go out and

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Speaker 3: write it off, right, So it has to be reasonable.

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Speaker 3: You purchase a reasonable shirt you want to, you know,

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Speaker 3: write that off. So that's how that works, all right.

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Speaker 3: But let's talk about expenses, right, what does it mean?

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Speaker 3: Because I do get a lot of outlandish requests and

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Speaker 3: there's hundreds of things that can be written off. This

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Speaker 3: the time. So I like literally wrote a book about it,

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Speaker 3: like there's hundreds of deductions because I mean I wrote

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Speaker 3: classifies something as an expense. According to the IRS, it

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Speaker 3: has to be an ordinary and necessary expense. Ordinary meaning

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Speaker 3: Necessary meaning that it is necessary for you to spend

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Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, no, let's keep it, you know, let's

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Speaker 3: Things being reasonable and you being able to and you

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Speaker 3: having your documentation. Okay, you need documentation. So let's just

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Speaker 3: talk about a few very popular expenses. So you're CPA services.

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Speaker 3: That put me first, just because I need you guys

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Speaker 3: So any legal services. Education, so you guys are going

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Speaker 3: to conferences, you know, investing in your education, purchasing books,

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Speaker 3: you know, investing in mentorships, like all of these things

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Speaker 3: are tax deductible. Why because it is a necessary expense

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Speaker 3: in order for you to develop in your business. And

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Speaker 3: that's what I love about business, right, Like we get

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Speaker 3: So consultants meals for a.

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Speaker 4: Minute, So this and this is a business. This is

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Speaker 4: a business owner's only.

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Speaker 3: Right, this business owner.

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Speaker 4: So so so if for.

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Speaker 2: A business owner, if you were going to invest fest

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Speaker 2: let's say, right, and you buy a ticket to invest

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Speaker 2: gotta fly and get a hotel, so you can you

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Speaker 2: can deduct that.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, you can deduct the ticket, purchase the flight, the hotel,

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Speaker 3: the meals while you're there, transportation, get into and from.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, because because it would be for the betterment of

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Speaker 2: your business. You're there and you're promoting your business, your marketing,

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Speaker 4: So you're you're right, that's what And the only.

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Speaker 3: Thing you need to do is you need to keep

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Speaker 3: confirmation that you purchase your ticket, obviously, and a good

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Speaker 3: thing about all of these things is they're digital, right,

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Speaker 3: so you know you keep that, you keep your hotel

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Speaker 4: Okay.

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Speaker 3: Reason that especially played yourself. You double played yourself, all right.

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Speaker 4: So consultants, you said, consultants.

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Speaker 3: Yep, consultants meals travel, so business travel that I want

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about the meals, Okay, because there's something that's

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Speaker 2: you gotta let's explain that.

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Speaker 3: Let's explain meals. Okay, guys, me meals. You can write

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Speaker 3: off fifty percent. Here's the idea. If you are having

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Speaker 3: your meals, right, but you can write all fifty percent

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Speaker 3: of it because the idea is that you are having

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Speaker 3: you are having dinner with clients, and then if you

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Speaker 3: is deductible, yours is not. So that's why you can

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Speaker 3: write all fifty percent of your meal. So fifty percent

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Speaker 3: of your meals can be deducted. I want you all

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Speaker 3: to understand that this line item is and thank you

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Speaker 3: a shot for making me go back to this, because

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Speaker 3: this is one of the highest auditit line items. And

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Speaker 3: the reason why is because people are unlike for shod like, oh,

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Speaker 3: let me get that receipt you have to keep your

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Speaker 3: receipts because the government is like, okay, well we know.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to tell you it is the highest audit

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Speaker 3: line items on a business owner's tax return is meals, travel,

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Speaker 3: and vehicle, okay. And the reason why is because you

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Speaker 3: need extensive documentation to support these things. And when I

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Speaker 3: say extensive, I mean that it's a lot of small

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Speaker 3: for your meals, you need to hold on to your receipts.

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Speaker 2: So for the received things, though, because most people are

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Speaker 2: not going to carry their receipt. So what's the best

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Speaker 2: option outside of that? Is it to use a credit card,

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Speaker 2: a business credit card where it can track your transactions,

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Speaker 4: Is it an app?

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Speaker 1: I know sometimes people are using the app that takes a

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, so it's both. So let's just talk about when

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Speaker 3: you go out and the receipt and what it should have. Right,

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Speaker 3: if you have a meal, the receipt that you have,

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Speaker 3: So let's talk about the receipt, and then let's talk

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Speaker 3: about how to actually hold on to the receipt and

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Speaker 3: what you need to do. So for the receipt, right,

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Speaker 3: the receipt needs to have the date, the amount, who

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Speaker 3: like who was the like, who did you go with?

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Speaker 3: What did you guys discuss? Right, So you need to

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Speaker 3: have all of these things written down, like you need

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Speaker 3: went out with Raseean and Troy. You know, this is

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Speaker 3: what we you know, talked about, like this is what

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Speaker 3: then you know, then I'll well all the date, the amount,

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Speaker 3: and the place is already on the It's on the receipt, right,

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Speaker 3: so you just need to identify, like what was your

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Speaker 3: the IRS wants to know, right, what was your business

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Speaker 3: reason for being there? So then from there, Rashad to

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Speaker 3: your point. You have to hold on to those receipts, right,

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Speaker 3: So you have to hold on to those receipts. But

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Speaker 3: a physical receipt. I'm one of those people. Receipts they crumble,

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Speaker 3: I do is I and my account and software. So

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Speaker 3: I use quick Books. So quick books has a feature

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Speaker 3: it to the transaction. So that makes it really helpful

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Speaker 3: let's say you want to upload into your Google Drive

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Speaker 3: or and you know it's so crazy, Troy, you gave

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Speaker 3: me that idea one year when you were like, I

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Speaker 3: it'll match to date. And so now I give that

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Speaker 3: that strategy out to everybody. So thank you, trust me,

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Speaker 3: Just thank you, because a lot of times if you,

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Speaker 3: let's say you you know, you'll know when the transaction happens.

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Speaker 3: So if you put the date in the search bar

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Speaker 3: of your phone, you'll be able to pull it up.

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Speaker 3: You'll know exactly who you were with while you were there.

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Speaker 3: You know, you should have a photo in your phone

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Speaker 3: of the of the receipt. I wouldn't say keep all

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Speaker 3: don't keep the photos there, right, but originally take the

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Speaker 3: phote on your phone and then you know, attach it

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Speaker 3: to quick boats or upload it into Google Drive, like whatever,

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Speaker 3: whatever your process is, figure out the process and stick

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I would just just add to that what you're

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Speaker 1: saying is one hundred percent factual. Having documentation is super important.

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Speaker 3: Let's take it back real quick. Let's talk about vehicles.

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Speaker 3: In twenty nineteen, we were still in the window of

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Speaker 3: You can take sixty percent, you just can't take one

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Speaker 2: Soy so for so all right, so for six thousand

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Speaker 4: So they started a rule, the six thousand pounds rule.

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Speaker 2: Right, So, okay, if you buy a car that's over

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Speaker 4: Is forty percent. So what is that? What does that

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Speaker 2: Because most people aren't going to pay two hundred thousand

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Speaker 2: So let's kind of explain, like, how what is sixty

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Speaker 3: It's sixty percent of the value because it is an asset.

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