Taxation - Deducting Your Combined Business and Vacation Travel

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Deducting your combined biz/vacation travel
By Dorothy Griggs, EA

Deducting your combined biz/vacation travel by Dorothy Griggs, EA

Time with family is precious. That's why more and more business travelers are adding on vacation to
their trips and inviting family to join them. Sometimes it's easy to mix business and pleasure -
especially with the trend toward booking business conferences at resort areas like Orlando or Las
Vegas. With a little advance planning, you can get Uncle Sam to foot part of the bill - legally.

The Internal Revenue Service lets you deduct 100 percent of your transportation costs for travel within
the United States - as long as the primary reason for the trip is business. If your trip is primarily for
pleasure, only expenses directly related to business are deductible. So the trick is to make business
the principal purpose of your trip. Then you can mix in a few vacation days and still fully deduct
transportation costs, including: airfare (for yourself only), getting to and from the airport, tips for
baggage handlers, cabs from your hotel to your business meetings and back. Of course, you don't
have to fly to get tax write-offs. The same rules apply when you travel by rail or car. Pack the family
into the car for the joint business/vacation destination, and you can deduct the total cost of driving back
and forth, even though others are in the car. When you share your hotel room with family members,
you may deduct the cost of what you would have paid for a single, rather than double, room. Just be
sure to ask the hotel to note the single rate on your bill.

Plus, you can write off all your daily out-of-pocket expenses - lodging, hotel tips, and 50 percent of
meals, seminar and convention fees, cab fare, etc. - for business days at your destination. Your out-of-
pocket expenses for personal days are not deductible. There is a really easy way to gain maximum tax
deductions and take some extra days off too. It's the Saturday night stay-over exception. If staying over
a Saturday night would substantially reduce your airfare - and thus the overall cost of your business trip
- the IRS will cut you a break. In effect, the IRS lets you count the extra days as business days
because staying over actually saves money. Remember, your trip must still be primarily for business
and you can only deduct 50 percent of your meal expenses. Keep in mind that the IRS pays close
attention to deductions claimed for business travel. Maintain a log to substantiate your business
activities. Include the dates of departure and return, the number of days spent on business, and the
reason for the travel.

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Dorothy J. Griggs is a licensed Enrolled Agent and has over 10 years of tax and accounting
experience. Enrolled Agents are tax professionals licensed by the federal government to represent
taxpayers and assist them with tax planning and tax return preparation. Dorothy is also a member of
the National Association of Enrolled Agents. For more great tax tips, visit her website at
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Biz-domains with special characters will come soon. ICANN-Registrar
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special characters(https://www.domainregistry.de/biz.html)

On October 12, 2004 the registry of biz-domains
will introduce IDN.BIZ-domains, or domain names featuring foreign language characters. The German
language will be the first non-english language to be introduced at biz-domains.

With the introduction of German script IDN names, ICANN and NEULEVEL
accredited Registrar Secura will be able to offer customers the ability to register biz-domains
containing the IDN characters.

Hans-Peter Oswald
https://www.domainregistry.de/biz-domain.html

CEO ICANN accredited Registrar SecuraYou can publish this article for freeif Author and URL are
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