- When you're an entrepreneur, you have to pay taxes,
that's life, but sometimes you also have to travel.
And if you're wondering how you can maybe travel more
and pay less taxes, well,
this lesson is all about business English
for talking about tax deductions and travel.
Hi, I'm your English coach, Christina,
and welcome to Business English with Christina,
where you become better at business and better at English,
and, real quick, if you're an entrepreneur
and you're trying to improve your English
and you wanna build up those good habits,
go over and get my English Habits Starter Kit
to help you do that.
The link is down below.
Now, before we get into this lesson, a little disclaimer,
a little warning.
With my team, when we were trying to decide subjects
for summer videos, we wanted to have a little fun with it.
So this video, yes, it is about business English
to talk about tax deductions and travel,
but it is not business advice or tax advice,
and we're not encouraging you to try to cheat on your taxes,
none of that.
It's really meant to be just a funny light video
to introduce some very useful business English expressions.
If you need tax help, or you're really wondering
what you can deduct from your taxes,
please check your local laws, talk with your accountant.
I am not here to give you tax advice,
only business English advice.
Okay, so now that the disclaimer message is there,
let's get into this lesson.
You're going to hear a dialogue
between an entrepreneur and their accountant,
and listen for the expressions that they use
to talk about traveling and tax deductions.
And as always, you can find all of this vocabulary
and a quiz to help you learn it,
over on my blog, link down below the video.
- Yeah, hey, it's Christina.
Listen, I'm calling because I'm leaving on this trip
and I was wondering,
can I deduct this trip as a business expense?
- Well, it may be possible to deduct your travel expenses,
like airfare, accommodation, restaurants,
if you take your business partners
or your clients out to dinner,
but is your trip business-related?
Will it help your business
or is this more of a personal trip?
- It's for a yoga and massage retreat in Bali,
it is kind of connected to my work.
You know, IT.
- Is that relevant to your business?
Do you need yoga and massage to do IT work?
- Actually, yeah, because we specialize in IT solutions
for online yoga businesses,
and after, my business partners and I,
we get some massage therapy, we'll be much more relaxed
for our business meetings later this year
and we'll be more productive,
and so I think it's definitely relevant.
- I see.
It might be easier to deduct the yoga part of the trip,
but the massage part might be more difficult to deduct,
you may be mixing personal and business travel.
So you can deduct a portion of your trip.
How long will you be there?
- Three weeks?
- Does the conference last three weeks?
- No, but once we're there
we thought we would do some sightseeing
and maybe hang out the beach and maybe work remotely.
Now that you mention it, if I bring my laptop,
can I just say that I'm working the entire time?
I can work from anywhere.
- I'm not sure that's the best idea.
- Well, I'm so glad I called you,
you always have the best ideas, Nico.
And don't worry, I remember what you said before,
document, document, document.
That's why you're my accountant, to keep me out of trouble.
So I'll keep my receipts,
it was great talking to you as always Nico,
and I'll let you go because I've got a plane to book.
- Wait,
hello,
hello?
- Okay, did you catch those business English expressions,
at least maybe some of them?
And did you think that that entrepreneur
was making the right decision
to try to deduct all of those travel expenses?
No matter what your answer to that question is,
you've got a quiz to help you learn
all of those expressions over on my blog.
So be sure to go over there and get it.
Start with this video, but don't stop there,
continue learning, be active in your learning
and go check out that quiz.
And, if you don't use it, you lose it.
So here's how you can use some of the things
that you learned today.
Down in the comments, tell me,
is there a place that you would love to travel for business,
for a conference or for an event,
where you could mix business and pleasure.
Share your dream business destination with me
down in the comments and let's have a little fun.
If this lesson was helpful for you,
and if you liked the fun, funny tone,
I hope it was funny, I tried to be funny.
Anyway, if you enjoyed it, let me know
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and subscribe to my channel
so that I can continue
making business English lessons for you.
Like I said, go over to my website
and check out the quiz that goes with this video lesson,
and get the Habits Kit to build good habits
for improving your English.
Watch this next lesson,
it's more businessy, about how to go from scared, to super,
on business English calls.
And, of course, thank you so much
for watching Business English with Christina.
I will see you next time, but next week,
and for the next couple of weeks,
something a little different.
We're going to share with you some longer lessons
that are the best of our lessons from the past year or two,
some compilations, because a lot of the members on the team
will be on well deserved summer vacation,
so we're preparing everything in advance for you
so that you can continue learning
and reviewing your English with us
during the summer months, if you would like.
But if you just want to disconnect,
go relax on the beach or go climb some mountains,
or just not do anything productive, let's say,
and enjoy doing nothing, please do that.
All right, guys, have a good one and I'll see you soon.