| I understand the cost of a luxury suite/sky box can be partially deductible limited to the cost of non-luxury box seats if the box is purchased for more than one event. What if the box is leased/purchased for the entire year - which means tickets are available for every single event held at the arena. Would this be considered a perk or bonus instead? It is only used mostly for highly compensated employees, the ticket prices for different events can vary.========>> A box purchased or leased for the benefit of a specific executive may be taxable income.
it depends; you can generally deduct a bonus paid to an employee if you intended the bonus as additional pay for services, not as a gift, and the services were performed. However, the total bonuses, salaries, and other pay must be reasonable for the services performed. If, to promote employee goodwill, you distribute food of nominal value to your employees at holidays, you can deduct the cost of these items as a nonwage business expense. Your deduction for de minimis gifts of food or drink aren't subject to the 50% deduction limit that generally applies to meals. In general,Skyboxes or luxury suites are a common place for business associates to meet during sporting and entertainment events. One item to keep in mind is whether a suite or skybox is rented for more than one event. The allowable expense for a multi-event rental may not exceed the fair market value of the ticket price charged for the highest value, non-luxury box seats. The taxable deduction for the event would be limited to 50 % of the allowable expenses. For purposes of the preceding sentence, 2 or more related leases shall be treated as 1 lease.
Another question is what determines whether or not the box is luxury or non-luxury? =====>asfaras I know no specific definition of luxury or non luxury by IRC; Some luxury goods, or items that are not considered essential however, Luxury box rentals are subject to the general business-related entertainment expense rules as well as rules specific to luxury box rentals. There are two different types of luxury box leases, and the IRS treats them differently:those that require tickets be purchased in addition to the annual lease payments in order to attend events and these are not subject to tax dedcution; and
those that include the cost of tickets in the annual fee and do not require separate tickets be purchased in order to attend events. the income tax deduction for the cost of sporting event tickets used in connection with business entertainment is limited to 50% of the cost of the ticket of a field (or non-luxury) box seat ticket
What is the best way to handle something like this?=====>as said, If a company purchases / leases a skybox or luxury box at a sporting venue, the company can deduct no more than the price of the same number of regular seats at that venue. Other associated expenses ,catering, for example, must be "ordinary and necessary" to the business to be deductible as entertainment expenses.
A box purchased or leased for the benefit of a specific executive may be taxable income. Awards or bonuses are considered compensation. Be careful about providing non cash payments "on behalf of" executives. If these payments appear to be personal they are not deductible to the company and they are taxable to the executive.
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