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Originally Posted by hueimo
is your tax situation pretty simple? married? children? have a personal business? how does your CPA do it? do you do your tax yourself?
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My primary profession required a great deal of spending on my part to keep me competitive and up-to-date with my trade. Trade journals, tools, specialized clothing, travel, continuous advanced education courses.
Attending trade conferences during vacation trips are a good way to write-off travel.
I am married, we do have children.
We collected apartment buildings while I was in the Navy, so we had a collection of those. Then when I retired, we sold most of them and used the 'profits' to buy a farm, where we live now.
We do a little catering, I sell produce at a farmer's market,
We generally file a couple schedule 'C's [each 'C' represents a business]. We have operated many businesses over the years.
We file a schedule 'E' ['E's are used for rental properties]. As I said we used to have a collection of apartment buildings.
We file a schedule 'F' ['F's are used for farming things]. We have used 'F's are years, though only of recent do we actually have a farm. I started filing a 'F' when all I had was one bee hive in a city. 5.000 livestock in a manner of speaking.