However, they can make an election stating the startup expenses will be capitalized on the return if they wish to forgo the deemed election. 1.195-1 provides that taxpayers are not required to make a separate election statement on their return in that tax year. The election to deduct startup costs in the tax year in which the taxpayer begins an active trade of business is deemed to be automatically made. The expenses are not disallowed, but they must be capitalized over a longer period. 195(b)(1)(B) provides that any startup costs that are not allowed to be expensed in the first tax year of the business must be amortized and then ratably deducted over the 180-month period beginning with the month in which the active trade or business begins. In other words, if startup expenses are greater than $55,000, there is no immediate expensing of any of the startup costs. However, if the total startup costs are greater than $50,000, the $5,000 deduction is reduced dollar for dollar for any amount of startup expenses over $50,000, until the $5,000 goes to zero. 195(b)(1)(A) allows a deduction in the tax year the trade or business becomes active of the lesser of the amount of the startup expenses or $5,000. Once the amount of the startup costs is established, how much of the costs can be recovered, and when, must be determined. "(A)(i) investigating the creation or acquisition of an active trade or business, or (ii) creating an active trade or business, or (iii) any activity engaged in for profit and for the production of income before the day on which the active trade or business begins, in anticipation of such activity becoming an active trade or business, and (B) which, if paid or incurred in connection with the operation of an existing active trade or business (in the same field as the trade or business referred to in subparagraph (A)), would be allowable as a deduction for the taxable year in which paid or incurred." 195(c)(1) defines these costs as being connected with: Startup costs are costs that are paid or incurred prior to the company’s becoming an active trade or business or prior to a business’s being acquired. 195(a) generally disallows a deduction for startup costs. 162(a) permits ordinary and necessary expenses to be deducted in the tax year incurred while carrying on any trade or business. New business owners are often surprised to find out that those expenses are not usually immediately deductible. The costs associated with investigating a new business idea for potential viability and those incurred when getting the new business started can be voluminous. When is a company allowed to report as deductions on a tax return the expenses that have been incurred during the time leading up to getting the doors open for business? In other words, when can startup costs be deducted by a new business? This question should be addressed by every startup company.
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