@AnnetteB6
OK - then I will simply not include the roof repair since it was a completely new roof. I am not trying to push the envelope - just not stupidly exclude something because I misunderstood.
I am aware it is a percent, in this case 3.76% 😉 it's small. MY home office is very large since we bought the house knowing I would be using it exclusively for work from home and I have space for bookshelves for all my programming references and places to store all our printed specs etc. Plus multiple pcs etc. But... the 2017 thing removed home office for regular employees which is what I am.
But one related question - when I asked someone who does taxes (a friend so...) she said that home repairs are not deductible. Which, actually was my understanding was the case. But on TurboTax, for Home office it has like 5 categories of things to enter for the HOME (not just office) and one is "repairs" as described above. So, things like leaky faucets, broken door and cracked ceiling etc seem to match the description given there clearly and you seem to agree. I know you can't speak to her mind, but she has a lot of experience - I wonder what she was thinking when said I should remove all repairs (totalled 2,986 - so less than $100 deduction I am guesstimating without a handy calc load) from the form (she said schedule A but I didn't verify where TT puts that) or it may raise flags.
I definitely don't want to cheat and I know no one here is giving advice for that - so I just wanted to make sure I understood that I CAN put repairs for the house in general in that part and that Turbo correctly determines if it reduces me or not for her "home office" percent.
Thanks once again - things are crazy - rushing to pack to flyt to Florida tomorrow - dad in hospital and it's not optimistic.
