I shut down my daycare March of last year due to COVID. I haven’t reopened yet and haven’t decided when I will. For my expenses do I only use the receipts/expenses during the time I was open or from the whole year?
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostI shut down my daycare March of last year due to COVID. I haven’t reopened yet and haven’t decided when I will. For my expenses do I only use the receipts/expenses during the time I was open or from the whole year?
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostWhat about expenses like property taxes, homeowners insurance, annual association dues, plumbing bills where some of these were billed and paid after March?
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Also what about my time log I kept through the summer with trainings, writing a COVID plan, webinars etc. I was still doing these things because I hadn’t decided to close yet and still not sure what I’ll end up doing. Should I count any of that time in my time/space?
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostSo would I pro-rate any of these such as the association dues (for Jan and feb) since what we pay is for the whole year?
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostAlso what about my time log I kept through the summer with trainings, writing a COVID plan, webinars etc. I was still doing these things because I hadn’t decided to close yet and still not sure what I’ll end up doing. Should I count any of that time in my time/space?
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How do Covid Relief grants apply to this?
I am located in michigan and face the same issue. My enrolled families at the time were all teachers so even after daycare were allowed to reopen in July, non of my families were scheduled to come back until Aug. I am also very high risk medically so I was unable to open for essential workers. Michigan started offering the Childcare Relief fund grants that we could apply for even if our location was closed. My contract/agreement with the daycare families is that they pay every week during the school year and I do not charge them from the last day they work until they go back but hold their spot however during the lockdown (with the understanding that we would have the ability to apply for the grants) I did not continue to charge them for the remaining 13wks. ($7,200 loss of income). We didn't find out until the end of Aug that schools would not be returning and that July and all future grants would require the center to be reopened. At that point, I knew I was never going to be able to open again.
I was able to use the April, May and June grants to pay three months of my mortgage which is in forbearance and get my utilities caught up. Nothing was left after paying that and I could not apply for the others due to not actively providing care.
Now I am having the problem of trying to figure out how this works for taxes because I only had children in my care up to March 17 and have been "closed by the state" until July and then closed due to covid issues since. I didn't officially give up on reopening until Aug but I'm not sure how to figure my time space percentage for expenses when there was no children in my care. Also, if a grant was used for mortgage and utilities (which was an approved used) how does that work when you can only claim your time space percentage of them for expenses???? Being a compromised daycare provider during covid has been one hit after another!
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostI am located in michigan and face the same issue. My enrolled families at the time were all teachers so even after daycare were allowed to reopen in July, non of my families were scheduled to come back until Aug. I am also very high risk medically so I was unable to open for essential workers. Michigan started offering the Childcare Relief fund grants that we could apply for even if our location was closed. My contract/agreement with the daycare families is that they pay every week during the school year and I do not charge them from the last day they work until they go back but hold their spot however during the lockdown (with the understanding that we would have the ability to apply for the grants) I did not continue to charge them for the remaining 13wks. ($7,200 loss of income). We didn't find out until the end of Aug that schools would not be returning and that July and all future grants would require the center to be reopened. At that point, I knew I was never going to be able to open again.
I was able to use the April, May and June grants to pay three months of my mortgage which is in forbearance and get my utilities caught up. Nothing was left after paying that and I could not apply for the others due to not actively providing care.
Now I am having the problem of trying to figure out how this works for taxes because I only had children in my care up to March 17 and have been "closed by the state" until July and then closed due to covid issues since. I didn't officially give up on reopening until Aug but I'm not sure how to figure my time space percentage for expenses when there was no children in my care. Also, if a grant was used for mortgage and utilities (which was an approved used) how does that work when you can only claim your time space percentage of them for expenses???? Being a compromised daycare provider during covid has been one hit after another!
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