The Family Child Care Inventory-Keeper is an easy-to-use log that enables you to track the furniture, appliances, and other items you use in your home-based family child care (daycare) business. Once you identify these items, you can reduce your taxes by depreciating them as business expenses. By filling out the Inventory-Keeper, you will have all the information needed to claim depreciation deductions for such items as a washer, dryer, computer, television, DVD player, refrigerator, stove, freezer, bed, sofa, lawn mower, microwave, swing set, and so on. You can use the Inventory-Keeper to claim depreciation deductions for furniture and appliances that you purchased years before your business began, as well as for items you bought after your business began. The Inventory-Keeper can help you identify many deductions that you may have otherwise missed. It can also be used for insurance purposes if any of your items are ever stolen or destroyed. There is even a section where you can list items that are strictly personal. The Inventory-Keeper can track it all.
