Tax season can be a stressful time for many people, from accountants to small Business owners.  You have to spend hours learning about the changes from previous years, to make sure that you are reporting all income correctly, and taking advantage of all available Tax Deductions.  For those of us that make money with a blog,  we also have to take care during tax season to report all of our income correctly.  This includes all income from google adsense, affiliate sales, and direcet advertising.

If you have incorporated your blog or created an LLC, you can take advantage of the tax code to limit the amount of overall income that you have to report.  However, if you run your site as a sole proprietorship as most Bloggers do, you will have to add your blog income to what you make in your other employment endeavors, which has the potential to push you into a new tax bracket!

Either way, it is certainly in your interest to take advantage of the many tax deductions available to bloggers.  Below is a list of twenty five items that you can claim that will help get your taxable blog income down as low as possible:

25 Tax Deductions For Bloggers

• Hosting & Domain Name Expenses – only the current year is deductible
• Staff Writer Expenses 
• Blog Related Software Purchases – (Market Samurai, dlvr.it, etc)
  
• Research Sites That Require a Subscription
• Computer Hardware Purchases
• Paypal Fees
• Website Design or Logo Work
• Premium WordPress Plugins or Theme Purchases
• Digital Image Purchases
• Books or Magazines Purchased to Help Learn Your Craft – if you write about money, that subscription to Forbes is likely deductible
• Digital Cameras and/or Memory Cards to Hold Photos Used on Your Site
• Cell Phone Purchases and Expenses – do you check blog-related- email on your phone?
• Tax and Accounting Software
• Business Incorporation and/or Trademark Costs
• Conference Registration Fees
• Travel/Parking/Hotel/Food expenses at conferences
• Business Card Creation
• Home Office Expenses – is there a part of your home dedicated specifically to blogging?
• Home Internet Costs
• Online Promotions and Advertising Costs  – Facebook ads, Adsense, etc
• Safe Deposit Box Fees
• Prizes and Giveaways
• Annual Fees For Business Credit Cards
• Business Lunches – If you meet other bloggers and pick up the tab
• Anything You Review On Your Site  – for example: I reviewed Amazon Prime in 2013.