> Many places require you to deprecate assets such as computers over many years, so the deductions are not all taken out of your profit the year you buy them
It's likely that in some accounting regimes you have to to this, but in my own experience with a small business in the US, multiple accountants have simply depreciated assets like our computers immediately. When I originally questioned this our CPA said we could depreciate it over several years but it wasn't necessary in our case (small enough [asset] value and lifetime) and not worth it.
As it stands I imagine if someone is spending $1,000 per year on "servers" these are non-depreciable cloud service expenses.
It's likely that in some accounting regimes you have to to this, but in my own experience with a small business in the US, multiple accountants have simply depreciated assets like our computers immediately. When I originally questioned this our CPA said we could depreciate it over several years but it wasn't necessary in our case (small enough [asset] value and lifetime) and not worth it.
As it stands I imagine if someone is spending $1,000 per year on "servers" these are non-depreciable cloud service expenses.