Most people believe the answer is no . A primary residence is personal-use property, and personal property generally cannot be depreciated . But once part of your home is used for business or rental activity, the tax rules change. This situation comes up more often than people realize once a home starts being used for more than just personal living. In these situations, depreciating a primary residence or more precisely the income-producing portion of it may actually be re

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The Real Opportunity Isn’t Just the Account Yes, it’s a child savings vehicle. Yes, it grows tax-deferred. And yes — if your child was born between 2025 and 2028, the government will contribute $1,000 to get it started.* But that’s not the interesting part. The real intrigue lies in how contributions can be made. What Happens If You Fund It Personally? If you pay yourself wages from your business and then contribute personally, you first pay income tax and payroll taxes — and

Fixing messy books once is part of professional accounting. Fixing the same  mess every year is not a plan. We do clean up books. Businesses grow, systems fall apart, and owners end up doing too much themselves. A cleanup can be the reset that gets things back on track. What doesn’t work is treating that cleanup as something that happens every year. If you’re bringing a mess to your accountant year after year and expecting them to fix it again and again, something isn’t worki

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