SDO CPA LLC
18 years of experience
Bobby Huang is a partner at SDO CPA. 18 years of hands-on bookkeeping. He still reconciles real client books and built Growthy from the same review-and-approve work bookkeepers do each week.
AWS goes to Cloud Services or Computer & Internet (Office/General Admin), Schedule C Line 25 or 27a. No 1099. Reserved Instances are prepaid expenses, not month-one writeoffs. §174 R&D tagging matters post-OBBBA.
Uber rides go to Travel (Schedule C Line 24a). Uber Eats food goes to Meals (Line 24b, 50%). Commuting is not deductible. Employer-convenience office Uber Eats programs went to 0% deductible TY2026+ per OBBBA. No 1099 to Uber.
Adobe Creative Cloud belongs in Software or Dues & Subscriptions (Detail Type: Software), Schedule C Line 27a. No 1099 to Adobe. Sales tax varies by state. Plus the six annual-vs-monthly edge cases that QBO forum threads skip.
Google Workspace belongs in Software or Dues & Subscriptions, Schedule C Line 27a. No 1099. Sales tax depends on state. Annual $4,200 prepay deducts in full under the 12-month rule. GCP charges split out as Cloud Services.
Microsoft 365 belongs in Software (Detail Type Software), Schedule C Line 27a. No 1099 to Microsoft. Sales tax varies by state. Plus annual-prepay treatment, Copilot, and Azure-split edge cases bookkeepers miss.
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