Quote Originally Posted by reach_anna View Post
can you claim all those expenses even if youre not licenced/have a registered business?
Yes. I am a private in home daycare. I completely recommend getting a good accountant to help you out.

Side note: I do have a registered business name but that has nothing to do with my taxes. I can claim the cost of registering my business name. If you are going to name your daycare you should be registering it. That way no one can steal your name, your name can't be too similar to someone else and it guarantee's that you are not using someone else's name. I think it cost around $75 to start and then I renew it every 3 years for about $40. There was someone who was using a very similar name as mine (she actually even stole most of my wording from my ad). I contacted her stating that she could not use a name that was so close to mine. She quickly changed it. My guess is she wasn't registered.