603.09 Self-Employment Expenses SR 96-29, 01/97 (FAM-A)

Subtract the actual cost of doing business from self-employment income to arrive at the countable self-employment income. Determine countable self-employment income before combining self-employment income with other income. If the cost of doing business exceeds the self-employment income, the countable self-employment income is zero.

Examples of self-employment expenses include, but are not limited to:

• cost of materials needed to perform the job such as lumber, demonstration products,

• tools and equipment, *

• work-related clothing,

• vehicle expenses including cost of maintaining the vehicle, mileage, tokens or tolls, gasoline, insurance,

• employee taxes,

• state and municipal business taxes,

• advertising expenses,

• postage,