Principles Of Taxation For Business And Investment Planning 2020 Edition
23rd Edition
ISBN: 9781259969546
Author: Sally Jones, Shelley C. Rhoades-Catanach, Sandra R Callaghan
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 10, Problem 4IRP
Travis is a professional writer who maintains his business office in one room of his personal residence. The office contains Travis’s desk, filing cabinets, personal computer and printer, copying machine, phone system, and fax machine. It also contains his family’s library of videotapes, music CDs, popular novels, and the set of encyclopedias used by his three children for their schoolwork.
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