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Travel Expenses for Travel Agents
Posted on 4/11/16 at 1:19 pm
Posted on 4/11/16 at 1:19 pm
Any of you tax professionals out there ever dealt with travel expenses for travel agents? I have a client that would like to deduct some of the expenses of her trip to Disney with her family because she sells Disney vacations and the experiences help her server her clients. I've done some searching and can't find any good or bad on how to advise on this. My first thoughts are to keep it reasonable if we use any.
What do you think?
What do you think?
Posted on 4/11/16 at 2:38 pm to MotorbikeMike
I have several stay at home moms who are also Disney "travel agents". Every once in a while, one of them will even make a sale once a year!!!
Here is our guideline for our clients who wish to write off four family vacations to the mouse a year.
1) If it's a legit training type program - and there are ones out there that are legit - then we let them deduct the cost - but only their cost. If the family comes along, we allocate expenses to deduct by not taking any additional expenses incurred due to the family.
2) Beyond that, we generally tell them they can take one fact-finding trip per year with the family - again, only allocating expenses that are for the agent.
3) Any trips they take without family, we generally tell them they can deduct.
The biggest issue you have is here hobby vs business. We have a conversation with them to ensure that there are things they are doing to actually be a business - are they advertising, do they have licenses/certifications/memberships, etc.
And if they go three years in a row without selling a vacation package, we tell them no more.
Here is our guideline for our clients who wish to write off four family vacations to the mouse a year.
1) If it's a legit training type program - and there are ones out there that are legit - then we let them deduct the cost - but only their cost. If the family comes along, we allocate expenses to deduct by not taking any additional expenses incurred due to the family.
2) Beyond that, we generally tell them they can take one fact-finding trip per year with the family - again, only allocating expenses that are for the agent.
3) Any trips they take without family, we generally tell them they can deduct.
The biggest issue you have is here hobby vs business. We have a conversation with them to ensure that there are things they are doing to actually be a business - are they advertising, do they have licenses/certifications/memberships, etc.
And if they go three years in a row without selling a vacation package, we tell them no more.
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