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<br><div><div>On Jan 7, 2008, at 9:04 PM, <a href="mailto:itunepiano@aol.com">itunepiano@aol.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div>I would think most full time Cauts would tune at least a few pianos<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>on the side, which would then qualify for deductions on a scheduled C. They could even take a business loss (deducting more expense than income) if they wanted for two consecutive years (the third year loss causes the IRS to call it a "hobby", not a business. I once took a business loss on a band I played in - Deducted equipment purchases against a pitiful income! Bob. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><br></div><div> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div></span></blockquote></div><br><div>That really isn't the point. The point is, that this is yet one more deduction that the self-employed tech gets with no restrictions that the employee does not.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br></div><div><div>On Jan 7, 2008, at 9:35 PM, Elwood Doss wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; ">Change accountants.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; ">Joy!<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; ">Elwood<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000080" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div></span></blockquote></div><br>I like my accountant. He gets me more money back than I know how to do and he is quite reasonable. He does taxes and I do pianos. I used to do my own taxes back when I was just getting a W-2, but after it got complicated I turned it over to somebody who spends their time with taxes.<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I took him copies of the three articles Randy Potter wrote for the PTJ a couple years back and he read them and told me you just can't do some of that stuff.<br><div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>Jeff Tanner, RPT</div><div>University of South Carolina</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br></div></div></body></html>