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The most frequent deductions would include your annual maintenance fee, advertising, rental commission, depreciation, property taxes (if you pay them separately from the maintenance fees) .

Under IRC section 469, which restricts timeshare owners from deducting the expenses of timeshare rental activity in excess of rental activity income.[Deduct applicable expense only up to income,, no losses allowed]

Using appropriate (or available) allocation percentages, the timeshare owner compares his or her rental income to allocable rental expenses (including allocable interest and property taxes) and deducts those expenses up to the amount of rental income on Schedule E, according to Prop. Regs. Sec. 1.280A-3(f)(6

If you received a 1099 MISC for the renting of this property, here is how you would enter that in TurboTax: 

Tip: If your rental property is located out-of-state, make sure you first set up that state properly in Personal Info. That way, when you do your state taxes, we'll be ready to go.

In TurboTax Deluxe, Premier, or Home and Business, jump directly to the Form 1099-MISC entry screen:

  1. Enter 1099-misc in the TurboTax search box (with or without the dash) and press the Enter key.
  2. You'll jump to the Did you get a 1099-MISC? screen, click Yes.
  3. On the Let's enter the info from your 1099-MISC screen, copy the information from your form into TurboTax.
  4. Then click Continue and finish by describing your income in the following interview screens.

For more information about the 1099 MISC form: https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tools/tax-tips/Taxes-101/What-Is-the-IRS-Form-1099-MISC-/INF15260.ht...