https://www.oakhavenbedrock.com/product-page/the-augusta-rule-event-documentation-system 2026-09-03 https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2a6a15_3806322bddfc47fdad13a30b0baef042~mv2.webp/v1/fit/w_1024,h_1024,q_90/file.webp https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2a6a15_921bf1215d1a4b969cbd3742ca12f709f002.jpg/v1/fit/w_50,h_50,q_90/file.jpg The Augusta Rule Event Documentation System Renting your residence to your own business is one of the few strategies the tax code permits outright and one of the easiest to lose under examination. Your company pays you personally. That is precisely the payment a reviewer looks at hardest. What saves it is evidence that each meeting genuinely happened, that the space was genuinely used, and that the rent charged matched what an unrelated party would have paid.This system builds that evidence event by event, before the money moves rather than afterward.Eleven instruments carry a single qualifying event from announcement through review. The meeting announcement and invitation opens it. The agenda master form sets what the session will decide. The attendance and sign in sheet records who was present. The minutes and business outcome summary captures what the meeting produced. The residential meeting space rental agreement governs the use of the space. The fair market rent comparable log records the evidence behind the rate you charged. The written consent of the governing body authorizes the rental. The rent invoice and payment record proves the payment. The event cost ledger tracks what the event cost. The event folder cover sheet and index closes the file. The professional review record captures your advisor sign off.The Augusta Rule Event Planning Workbook sits alongside them. It tracks every event across the year, so you always know how many days you have used and how many remain.Order matters more here than almost anywhere else. Authorization comes before the meeting, the comparable evidence comes before the rate is set, and the payment comes after the record exists. Fill the instruments in the order they are numbered and the file assembles itself correctly.Oakhaven Bedrock Investments, Inc. is a product development company. We are not a law firm, a certified public accounting firm, or a tax preparation service, and nothing here is legal, tax, or accounting advice. Confirm the current rules with your tax professional before relying on this strategy. https://video.wixstatic.com/video/2a6a15_921bf1215d1a4b969cbd3742ca12f709/720p/mp4/file.mp4 https://www.oakhavenbedrock.com/product-page/kidequity-app 2026-09-03 https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2a6a15_d873d082b39243829211a8fafb31cf71~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1024,h_1024,q_90/file.png https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2a6a15_8e5ee2c61acc4c00a7d4c894789ffcbc~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_2048,h_2048,q_90/file.jpg https://www.oakhavenbedrock.com/product-page/the-complete-family-payroll-documentation-system-with-kidequity-app 2026-09-03 https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2a6a15_bfa1b7ec14814d17b7c5d874a9f6c2f9f002.jpg/v1/fit/w_50,h_50,q_90/file.jpg The Complete Family Payroll Documentation System with KidEquity App Hiring your child is one of the smartest financial moves available to a family business, and four separate provisions of the tax code stack together to make it complicated. Section 162(a)(1) makes the wage deductible. Section 63(c) gives your child a standard deduction. Section 3121(b)(3)(A) excludes Social Security and Medicare on wages paid to a child under eighteen. Section 3306(c)(5) excludes federal unemployment tax under twenty one. Each provision carries its own conditions.This package is the complete answer. It joins the full Family Employment Documentation System to the KidEquity application, so the paperwork and the daily record keeping arrive as one system rather than as two purchases you have to reconcile yourself.The documentation layer holds seventy fillable instruments across two hundred eighty seven pages carrying six thousand two hundred sixty three form fields, numbered by lifecycle position so reading the folder from the top walks you through the working year. Inside it sit the written consent that authorizes family employment, the family employment policy, thirty eight job descriptions covering one adult and thirty seven child positions, four versions of the wage determination memorandum, the offer of employment, the orientation plan, forty one job checklists across four age bands, sixteen job logs, the payroll change form, the ceiling review note, the year end file index, and the professional review record.Two workbooks come with it. The Oakhaven Payroll Suite runs seventeen sheets, three thousand two hundred sixty nine cells, and two thousand four hundred sixty four formulas. It runs biweekly across twenty six periods for six family employees and computes Social Security, Medicare, and federal unemployment tax from the entity type, the relationship, and the age on the pay date. It refuses to compute a payment for a period nobody approved. The Hire Your Kids and Family Workbook adds fifteen tabs of planning and research.The Family Employment Playbook ties every rule to the authority that supports it and prints the date that authority was verified. You are never left guessing where a requirement comes from.The KidEquity application then carries the daily work. Your child logs hours while working, ticks the assigned checklist against a time stamp nobody edits, photographs what the work produced, and sends the week to you for approval. You approve, the ceilings are watched person by person, and year end produces the file your accountant needs alongside an audit response file drawn from a log the application will not let anybody change.Bought separately the documentation system is two hundred ninety seven dollars and the application is one hundred ninety seven. Together they are three hundred ninety seven.Oakhaven Bedrock Investments, Inc. is a product development company. 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Congress removed that mercy for four categories. Section 274(d) bars estimation for travel, meals, gifts, and listed property, which includes vehicles. For those four, no record means no deduction, and that is true by statute rather than by tendency.This system teaches the rules that govern those four categories and hands you the tool that captures proof while the expense is happening.The ProveIt or LoseIt application comes with it. Press Start before you pull out of the driveway and the application logs every mile. Press Stop when you arrive, answer the required documentation questions, and the trip is recorded and stored. Photographs of travel, meal, and gift receipts are captured the moment you incur them, and the whole record organizes itself into a formatted file you can hand to your accountant.Forty seven expense types allow precise categorization, and built in failsafes separate an allowed capture from a disallowed one so you decide correctly on the spot rather than discovering the problem a year later. Every record stays on your own device.A thirty two page playbook summarizes sixteen authorities and answers forty four detailed questions. You learn why each requirement exists, which is what keeps you compliant on the days nobody is watching.Automated review has narrowed the tolerance for missing substantiation considerably. A single absent receipt can decide whether a deduction survives, and reconstructing a mileage log after the fact rarely persuades anyone.Oakhaven Bedrock Investments, Inc. is a product development company. 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