I have a question about charging of business expenses...can anybody claim that expenses are for the purpose of business, if they own a company, or do you have to show some sort of recent success that can be related to these expenses. For example, must FD show that he has obtained some recent investors, or some completed agreements to build for some person or entity? I don’t think he has “built” anything in the 2+ years since Jennifer left him, and maybe not anything since before his father-in-law died, with the exception of the house in New Canaan where EE was working on May 24th of this year. The charges he is claiming to be business expenses (all of the travel for himself, MT, and daughter, as well as everything else) don’t seem to be associated with much of anything actually happening in his business. Does the IRS care about something like this?