If you are only writing off what you paid for your inventory, you are handing the government a tip it did not earn. Almost every dollar you spend to run your shop is a legitimate deduction, and most resellers miss half of them simply because nobody handed them the list. So here it is.<\/p>\n
These are the deductions that make up most of your total, so nail these first:<\/p>\n
Those five categories alone are often the bulk of a reseller’s write-offs. Do not leave them fuzzy.<\/p>\n
Here is where money quietly slips away. All of these can count when they are genuinely for your business:<\/p>\n
The rule of thumb is simple: if it is an ordinary and necessary cost of running your reselling business, it is probably deductible. The catch is you have to be able to prove it, which means keeping receipts and a mileage log all year, not reconstructing it in a panic every April.<\/p>\n
The reason people miss deductions is not laziness, it is that receipts scatter across email, apps, and a shoebox. Keeping your sales organized in one place is half the battle, which is why I run Nifty<\/a> – one listing, every platform, one clean record of what sold.<\/p>\n The other half is sorting a year of random receipts into the right tax buckets, and that is where I lean on Claude. It can read through a pile of receipts and sort them into shipping, supplies, fees, and the rest so nothing gets lost. I show the setup in the AI Reselling Playbook<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe bottom line<\/h2>\n