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Daycare and Taxes>Can You Write Off Cookbooks?
legomom922 03:28 AM 03-11-2011
Ok I am going to be totaly honest here...When I had my infants here I had teh parents provide their food. However, my 3 yr old, I charge the parents $5 a day extra because they did not want to bother bringing her food and just wanted me to take care of it. I have a subscription to some cooking magazines and buy some at the grocery store. Now, the only think I cook out of these are dinners. I try something new several times a week. DCG eats dinner here 2 nights a week, because she is here 6a-6pm tues & wed and eats whatever we eat. So, are my expenses for my cookbooks count for DC even though I am not buying them to look up kid friendly meals? Or is this pushing the boundaries?
Cat Herder 05:41 AM 03-11-2011
My guess would be that is pushing your luck. 
All that kind of information is available for free, online...YKWIM?
All that kind of information is available for free, online...YKWIM?
TomCopeland 10:52 AM 03-11-2011
Since you are using the cookbooks and magazines to prepare meals for the children in your care you can deduct the time-space% of their cost.
Abigail 05:30 PM 03-11-2011
Originally Posted by TomCopeland:
Since you are using the cookbooks and magazines to prepare meals for the children in your care you can deduct the time-space% of their cost.
If it was a child-friendly magazine, could those be deducted? No necessarily a cooking magazine for kids, but those magazines actually targeted for preschool age children?Since you are using the cookbooks and magazines to prepare meals for the children in your care you can deduct the time-space% of their cost.