Thanks for your reply.
This is the only error I have and it's preventing me from filing our return.
I verified all my business and home office information, expenses, and assets were entered properly, but the dropdown list on Line 5 of Form 8829 Asset Entry Worksheet is still not showing the "M-Home Office" option.
I then tried adding a second home office for this business, making it so I split my work between two home offices. I entered direct and indirect office expenses everywhere I could, but I still got an error and the Line 5 dropdown list for the new office was highlighted red. Option M was not in the list for either office.
Next. I tried deleting both offices and started over. It showed no home office in the forms or on the step through screen under the Home Office summary. I added a new office, walked through everything, and entered a bunch of expenses. I ran an error check and got the same error, Line 5 was red and the dropdown list did not show option "M-Home Office".
Finally, I started a whole new return from scratch with no import, like I was a new TTax user. I entered business income and expenses, a vehicle, and a home office info and expenses. I added a few assets to depreciate, including an improvement to the home office. Same error, same result.
I checked my 2019 return, and the returns I started for 2021-2023 to see what Line 5 on the 8829 Asset Entry Worksheet showed. They all have "M-Home Office" in this option and only options M & N show in the list of options.
I don't know if you read the entries in this thread before mine, but in 2021 you replied to a user having this issue and said "you either have to wait for Turbotax to fix it or you can try using category J1. in effect M is the same as J1 because a home office is treated as nonresidential real estate."
Others replied with this suggestion as well, but I haven't seen any suggestion that something is missing.
https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/taxes/discussion/form-8829-asset-entry-worksheet-no-longer-allows-...
I'm certainly no accountant and often need to ask questions about particular situations that are new to us or haven't been an issue for a long time. But, I've been using TTax since it first came out in the 1990's and I'm very familiar with the software and the subjects I need to cover year after year. I've been doing business returns every year, and I've been reporting a home office since 2015 without any issues.
This one issue is keeping me from filing and moving on, and I don't know what else I can do to fix this.
