Do you write off all your gear on your taxes?
lol more like this 
. It's good to know that my taxes are paying for so many who abuse the system. (rant over for now) OK, moving forward.
Are you guys writing off literally all your new gear that was picked up in 2014? Do you even fuss with gear deprecation?
With the two above.
I do not know how different photography business is from construction. With construction work buying and writing off, or amortizing equipment is pretty straight forward. Sometimes taking off the whole value benefits you, and sometimes it does not. I always decided by how many other things I had to write off as expenses in a given year. If I had a lot of other things that had to be written off in that year, then I would only partially write off the more expensive items to balance out in the next year. That is because I knew that once I had a certain tool. or piece of equipment that I would not be needing to buy more over the next year, or two. There are strategies to how you choose to do write offs.
hghlndr6 wrote: It's not necessary to capitalize and depreciate your equipment. Research the Section 179 deduction.
This will get you started: ://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/179
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