Credits and Deductions are 2 completely different things. If you're getting a credit as a new business and only a deduction as an existing business, have a good idea to take the credit and not the deduction. The confusion that has been out there based on the articles I posted and between the different scenarios one calling it a credit, the other a deduction, the credit would be way more beneficial if only for new businesses.As long as they are following the rules and it made sense for them, then I’d call that a good idea.
Though what I was talking about your suggestion of your friends closing their business and reopening to deduct things that would not really meet the definition of start up expenses since they already had active operations. That would be fraud.
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