Entering Home Office Expenses Instructions are Confusing - Can someone clarify?
When entering home office expenses, there are two data entry pages:
1) The "Tell us about your home expenses" page
2) The "Enter your home office expenses" page
Why is the number 2) page required? Aren't the expenses from page 1) above allocated to the home office based on square footage?
The instructions on both pages are not clear. Could someone please clarify? Bear with me as i explain the mixup:
Page 1) asks for "your total expenses for the home" - Since they are saying "total" I imagine this would include all expenses for the home INCLUDING expenses for the home office, is this correct?
But a note on Page 2) reads "Do not enter any expenses already entered on previous page", referring to page 1)
But if page 1 includes "ALL" expenses for the home and we should not include any expenses from page 1) on page 2), that means that Page 2 should all be zeros. But this would not make sense, so I'm looking for clarification.
What exactly goes on page 2? And can I enter a subset of expenses from page 1 into page 2? Say I paid $1000 worth of insurance for the whole house (page 1), and the home office square footage is 10% of the whole house, should I enter say $100 for insurance on page 2)? or what?
‎April 13, 2022
6:11 PM
