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Question on promotional expenses
Posted By Dan White On April 4, 2007 @ 6:09 am In Letters To The Editor, Tax Tips | No Comments
Dear Editor,
I have some promotional items to claim 2006 Air Photography business.
In previous return years I may not have understood or done it properly in BKS. For example, For a donated photograph and frame; in addition to the material costs can I also claim costs for completing the photograph, such as my aircraft operational cost/hr and my hourly rate for editing and photo preparation ?
Thanks in advance for your help with an answer.
K
Hi K
Nice to hear from you.
In respect to promotional costs.
All your hard costs (money you actually spent) can be claimed.
… this would include aircraft costs…
But when it comes to your labour, you cannot deduct that. The way it is looked at is you would have to include that amount of labour value as income from your business, so when you donated it would have an assigned value. However that defeats the purpose of claiming your labour as it ends up a wash.
If you paid a family member to develop the photos that would be tax deductable.
And certainly all your little costs on top of the aircraft cost are business expenses.
The key here is that the promotional expense has to have a business reason for you doing it… such as increasing the chances of future business or as a reward for business that is done, or in a barter situation. Your costs to produce the item are similar to cost of goods for resale… only this case you are business gifting the goods.
Best Regards
Dan
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