2.4.0.8000100 - Disclosure - Accounting Policies: Business (Policies)truefalsefalse1false falsefalseD130101_130630http://www.sec.gov/CIK0001351901duration2013-01-01T00:00:002013-06-30T00:00:001true 1us-gaap_PolicyTextBlockAbstractus-gaap_truenadurationfalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalse1falsefalsefalse00falsefalsefalsexbrli:stringItemTypestringfalse0Policies2false 2us-gaap_BasisOfAccountingPolicyPolicyTextBlockus-gaap_truenadurationfalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalse1falsefalsefalse001. Business   Commonwealth Income and Growth Fund VI (the Partnership) is a limited partnership organized in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on January 6, 2006.  The Partnership offered for sale up to  2,500,000 units of the limited partnership at the purchase price of $20 per unit (the offering). The Partnership reached the minimum amount in escrow and commenced operations on May 10, 2007.  The offering terminated on March 6, 2009 with 1,810,311 units sold for a total of approximately $36,000,000 in limited partner contributions. The Partnership uses the proceeds of the offering to acquire, own and lease various types of information technology equipment and other similar capital equipment, which will be leased primarily to U.S. corporations and institutions.  Commonwealth Capital Corp. (CCC), on behalf of the Partnership and other affiliated partnerships, acquires equipment subject to associated debt obligations and lease agreements and allocates a participation in the cost, debt and lease revenue to the various partnerships that it manages based on certain risk factors. The Partnerships General Partner is Commonwealth Income & Growth Fund, Inc. (the General Partner), a Pennsylvania corporation which is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of CCC. CCC is a member of the Investment Program Association (IPA), Financial Planning Association (FPA), and the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association (ELFA).   Approximately ten years after the commencement of operations, the Partnership intends to sell or otherwise dispose of all of its equipment, make final distributions to partners, and to dissolve.  Unless sooner terminated or extended pursuant to the terms of its Limited Partnership Agreement, the Partnership will continue until December 31, 2018.falsefalsefalsenonnum:textBlockItemTypenaDisclosure of accounting policy for basis of accounting, or basis of presentation, used to prepare the financial statements (for example, US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, Other Comprehensive Basis of Accounting, IFRS).No definition available.false0BusinessfalseAccounting Policies: Business (Policies)UnKnownUnKnownUnKnownUnKnowntruefalsefalseSheethttp://www.ccclease.com/20130630/role/idr_DisclosureAccountingPoliciesBusinessPolicies12