Sheri is a lawyer who operates as a sole practitioner. Despite her busy schedule

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Sheri is a lawyer who operates as a sole practitioner. Despite her busy schedule, in the past Sheri found time for her family. This year Sheri took on two new important clients, and she hired a personal assistant to help her manage her schedule and make timely court Flings. Occasionally, Sheri asked her assistant to assist her with personal tasks such as having her car serviced or buying groceries. Do you think that Sheri should treat her assistant's entire salary as a business expense? Would your answer be any different if personal assistants commonly perform these tasks for busy attorneys?

Explanation / Answer

Yes, Sheri Should treat her assistant's salary as a business expense because this is the job to assis the personal assistant to do such things for his/her boss during its working hours and more over there is no way to value its services provided for the Car serviced or grocereis purchased so salary cannot be bifurcated for personl or business use like that and she hired personal assistant for her managing things if the assistant do such things for her then also he/she helping her in her business only by giving her time more to business then doing such things. So yes she should trear her salary as an business expense.

No, The answer would not change by this line. it would remain same that she can treat it as business expense.

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