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Yes, of course.
I'm referring to the fact that you are, for example, using a home office the whole year, but you might be on unemployment insurance for some of those weeks you are using that home office. (This is a completely new situation for self employed/gig workers. Previous year, you are not making any money for those weeks with no income, but it was still an "expense", so you counted it.)
Now in 2020, with the new rules for allowing gig workers to get unemployment insurance, can you count the weeks as an expense even though you received unemployment during that time?
The same for other expenses: telephone, health insurance. All expenses for the whole year. But are you allowed to do this if you were on unemployment for part of the year?
(Of course, you would only subtract it from income received from your self employment income, not towards unemployment insurance payments.)