As a freelance employee it is important for me to make sure that I keep track of every expense that could be a write-off when tax time comes around. Lately I’ve been trying to justify buying a boat. I’m hoping to figure out a way that this could be a tax write off.

My freelance business involves doing many different things for my clients. The majority of those things have to do with freelance writing. Of course, this is something that I could do from almost any location. I could definitely do it from a boat if I wanted to. So technically I could work on the boat but I don’t think that’s enough to qualify the boat as a tax write off.

Maybe if I wrote a book about the boat then it would count as a tax write off. Maybe I could write an instructional guide to help new boat owners learn about Mercruiser Parts, Evinrude Parts and whatever else they might need to buy for their boats. Ooh, or maybe I could travel around the world and write a memoir about my boating adventures.

Hm. Okay so I guess I’m not going to be able to justify the expense in this way. A boat probably isn’t going to pass as a tax write off in my line of work. But I’ll keep thinking about it just in case I come up with a more creative way to make it happen!

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