Meet New Yorkâs new $15 minimum wage and 12-week paid family leave law, which is the longest allowed leave in the U.S. As part of New Yorkâs 2016-2017 budget approval process, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed two pieces of legislation affecting employers: a minimum wage increase and paid family leave.
IRS publications say that you can deduct mileage driven from your home to work sites if your home is your principal place of business. But itâs actually more complicated than that: to qualify as a principal place of business, your home office must be used regularly and exclusively as your principal place of business.
If you buy an accounting program, that is also a write-off. Hiring a bookkeeper to help you with this aspect of your business is a write-off and, if you use an accounting firm to file your taxes, you can write off that expense.ar expenses. If you use your car for business purposes, the IRS allows you to use either the standard mileage rate of $.55 per mile or actual car expenses like depreciation, licenses, gas, oil, tolls, lease payments, insurance, garage rent, parking fees, registration fees, tires and repairs.