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Small Business Meals & Entertainment Write-Off Rules 2025
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Business meal and entertainment tax rules have changed, and many small business owners still aren't sure what's deductible in 2025. Don't worry, our favorite Bookkeeping Mensch, Paul Rosenblum, is here to explain meals, sports tickets, country clubs, and how to handle reimbursable expenses the smart way in a new experimental episode.
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Season 9, Episode 2: Small Business Meals & Entertainment Write-Off Rules 2025
I am trying something new with this podcast. We will still have regular episodes on the same schedule as we have had the past 3 years, but in off weeks, there will be a short episode like this one on a specific subject. Leave me fan mail or email and let me know what you think! I’m Paul Rosenblum
The entire meals and entertainment category has been changed in 2025 and moving forward. Take a listen to Season 7, Episode #1.
Going to a sporting event or a Broadway show is not deductible for most businesses, but if your business is in the sports industry, then the tickets to the sporting event might very well be. If you are on actor or a producer, or do anything in that arena, again, they probably will be for your particular business. Talk to you tax preparer, as always. Even if you are in the sports industry, country club memberships are not deductible, but meals and other costs are while you are there, are.
If you pay for a meal knowing that you will get reimbursed for it later, this is tricky. Since meals are just 50% deductible, and your reimbursement is for 100% of that meal, then how do you book the original meal? Rather than using the meal category, use an expense called “Reimbursable Expenses”. (or if you have a cost of goods section for your particular business, use that section instead). Then when you make the deposit for the reimbursable expenses, use the same category and in theory, the reimbursable expenses will be zero. If the amount isn’t zero, let your tax preparer know about it and what you did. They might want to show it as “Prepaid income” as a balance sheet item.
Put this under the category of ‘every little bit helps’ with your total business tax liability.
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