# De Minimis Safe Harbor

**URL:** <https://community.stessa.com/t/de-minimis-safe-harbor/4773>\
**Category:** Wishlist\
**Created:** [January 10, 2022, 10:08pm UTC](https://community.stessa.com/t/de-minimis-safe-harbor/4773 "2022-01-10T22:08:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![kjoproperties](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/85f322/32.png) [@kjoproperties](https://community.stessa.com/u/kjoproperties)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2022, 10:08pm UTC](https://community.stessa.com/t/de-minimis-safe-harbor/4773/1 "2022-01-10T22:08:31Z")

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It would be helpful to have a feature to designate expenses as de minimis safe harbor as this is a book conformity rule. A business must expense the same assets for tax purposes as it does on its financial books

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**Author:** ![garytim60035](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecccb3/32.png) [@garytim60035](https://community.stessa.com/u/garytim60035)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 3:52pm UTC](https://community.stessa.com/t/de-minimis-safe-harbor/4773/2 "2022-06-08T15:52:56Z")

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@kjoproperties I agree. I’m a new investor and of our 5 investment properties, I have had to replace 3 water heaters. I am not sure if safe harbor is the way to go, but regardless I only see one way to book the expense in STESSA and that is through Capitalization. How would STESSA know which expenses I want to use safe harbor? -just learning.

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**Author:** ![lucas.dargis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@lucas.dargis](https://community.stessa.com/u/lucas.dargis)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2023, 10:45pm UTC](https://community.stessa.com/t/de-minimis-safe-harbor/4773/3 "2023-04-27T22:45:46Z")

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I’m running into this now as well. How do you identify a de minimis safe harbor expense?