Course 4.2 · 60 minutes
Business Deductions A to Z: Home Office, Vehicles, Meals, Travel, and Equipment
Take every legitimate business deduction with the records to back it up, and know exactly where the lines are.
- Who it is for
- Every business owner, every year.
- Runtime
- 60 minutes
Pre-order: this course is still in development. Your purchase includes its materials as they are published in your portal. No release date is confirmed. Buy 5 or more and every course is 30% off.
After payment is confirmed and your access is set up, the files listed below can be downloaded from your portal. Any unpublished materials will be added when ready, at no additional charge.
Files currently available
- Deduction Master Checklist.
- Home Office Calculator Guide.
- Home Office Calculator.
- Vehicle Calculator Mileage Log Guide.
- Vehicle Calculator Mileage Log.
- Accountable Plan.
- Fourteen Day Rental Checklist and Memo.
- Slide deck.
- Visual: Roadmap.
- Visual: Deduction Test.
- Visual: Home Office Methods.
- Visual: Vehicle Methods.
- Visual: Meals Travel Sorter.
- Visual: Equipment Decision Tree.
- Visual: Small Deductions Map.
- Visual: Worked Example.
- Visual: Accountable Plan Flow.
- Visual: Audit Traps.
- Workbook.
- The narrated lesson. 60 minutes, cued to the deck, with chapter markers by lesson. Added to your portal when published, at no extra cost. This purchase does not guarantee that the narrated lesson is available today.
What the course covers
- 01The ordinary and necessary standard, and what substantiation means5 min
- 02Home office: the exclusive use test, the two methods, and the sale-day consequence8 min
- 03Vehicles: mileage versus actual, the luxury limits, heavy vehicles, and the log9 min
- 04Meals, travel, and the entertainment rule7 min
- 05Equipment: the de minimis election, section 179, and bonus depreciation after the One Big Beautiful Bill7 min
- 06Health insurance, education, phones, and the small deductions that add up5 min
- 07Worked example: a consultant with a home office, a vehicle, and three trips8 min
- 08Tricks of the trade: the accountable plan, renting your home to your business for fourteen days, and bunching purchases7 min
- 09Mistakes and traps: no log, personal use, and the hundred-percent phone4 min
How it fits: Requires 4.1. Pairs with 1.1 and 7.6.
The standard every course holds
- A narrated lesson of 45 to 60 minutes, produced as audio
- A designed slide deck you download and keep
- A computational workbook that runs the actual legal tests
- A toolkit of checklists and protocols
- A legal authority appendix carrying the two-pass vetting protocol
Written for a diligent reader with no legal education. Professionally narrated using a studio voice model of Brian T. Boyd. The course is recorded instruction, not a live consultation.
Where this course sits
Track 4: Business Planning
This course is one step in a track built around a single outcome. See the full build order and the other courses that get you there.
Back to this trackEducational material from the private client curriculum of Brian T. Boyd. This is legal education for a general audience, not legal advice, and no attorney-client relationship is created by purchasing, viewing, or using it. Tax outcomes depend on your facts and your state.