$9,000 may be a lot but that depends on your income. If you had to pay in very little or not at all, you would not be operating on much of a profit. That doesn't help with your current bill, but I guess I look at it as I want to make money. Also, there is so much more to taxes that just your daycare business.

Tom Copeland has list of all the things you can can claim, but as someone else above stated, spending money to reduce taxes does not make sense unless you actually need the stuff you are buying.

Good luck!

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