Per the IRS, you can deduct all ordinary and necessary business expenses to produce business income:
That is to say, if your expense is common and accepted in your business,
and helpful and appropriate, you can
deduct it
See Reporting
Business Income and Deductions to view a list of specific business expenses you may be able to deduct.
You will not be able to deduct business expenses in TurboTax Deluxe You will need to upgrade to TurboTax Self Employed Online, where you can enter business expenses in the below area.
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Type in schedule c in the search
box, top right of your screen, hit
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Enter key
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Click jump to schedule
c in the search results
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Arrive at the Your 2017
self-employed work summary
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Click the Edit button
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Arrive at the Here’s your
info page
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Clock the Add expenses for
this work button
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Arrive at the Tell us about
any expenses page-where you will see many expense
categories