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** TAX YEAR 2018 or earlier** Home Office Expenses

My wife has a Subchapter S corp and she works from home.  When I was working on her business expenses in TurboTax Business I was advised by T/T to claim her home office business expenses on our personal income taxes but I don't see where I would do that? 

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RayW7
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** TAX YEAR 2018 or earlier** Home Office Expenses

If Schedule K-1 came from Form 1120S, S corporation shareholders generally cannot deduct unreimbursed business expenses with Schedule K-1 because the shareholders are categorized as employees when performing services for the corporation (and a corporate officer may be considered a statutory employee). 

 

These expenses, if not subject to reimbursement from the corporation, are unreimbursed employee business expenses treated as miscellaneous itemized deductions subject to the 2% of the adjusted gross income (AGI) floor

In this case, enter the home office expenses under Deductions & Credits >> Employment Expenses >> Job-Related Expenses.

 

As an alternative-

 

If you are an employee of your own one-man corporation, whether a regular "C" corporation or a "sub-chapter S" corporation, you have several choices for handling the costs of a qualifying home office:

  1. You can deduct the costs of a home office if you are filing a Schedule C. Under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), employees working remotely can no longer deduct home office expenses on their tax returns to the extent they exceeded 2% of adjusted gross income (AGI). Business owners may qualify to claim the home office deduction if they have their own business and use a portion of their home as their principle place of business.

  2. The S corporation can pay you rent for the home office.

  3. The S corporation can pay you for the costs of a home office under an "accountable" plan for employee business expense reimbursement.

 

see https://proconnect.intuit.com/articles/home-office-deductions-expenses/

** TAX YEAR 2018 or earlier** Home Office Expenses

That all makes sense but what surprised me was that while I was entering my other business expenses TurboTax advised me to wait and enter them under my personal income as an itemized expense. 

** TAX YEAR 2018 or earlier** Home Office Expenses

It could happen if you entered expenses as mortgage interest, property taxes or other high expenses as direct expenses for your home office. Those items have to be prorated in accordance with business use of your home. Sometimes it is more beneficial to use the whole amount as a part of your Itemized deductions.   

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