Expenses for Self-Employed Truckers and the Transport Companies (Part 2)

 

If you have the incorporated or unincorporated business, you can claim truck related and other expenses such as:

  • Advertising
  • Meals and Entertainment (50% vs. 80% vs. 100% amounts)
  • Travel (Hotel/motel, parking, showers)
  • Business Tax (Municipal licence, Chamber of Commerce)
  • Office Expenses
  • Supplies
  • Professional Fees- legal and accounting
  • Automobile Expenses
  • Yard Rent
  • Salary, wages, vacation pay
  • Employee benefits (CPP, EI, Medical and extended benefits (optional))
  • WCB (for owner/operators, the lease company is required to remit WCB on behalf of the lease operator and cannot back charge the owner/operator. Amounts are based on gross truck earnings.
  • Payments to Sub-contractors
  • Telephone
  • Fuel, oil and other fluids
  • Maintenance & Repairs (Tractor, trailers)
  • Insurance
  • Truck lease
  • Business Use of Personal Residence (mortgage interest, utilities, property tax, etc.)
  • Interest (truck loans, bank account)
  • Bridge and Highway tolls, municipal ant state access licenses
  • Capital Cost Allowance for purchased vehicles and other eligible Capital Property
  • Other typical expenses