My business is located in my home. Since the 1980's, I have appropriately taken the proportion of household expenses (utilities, RE tax, etc,) applicable to the square footage of my business usage. These are all in addition to the Schedule C expenses connected with my business. Then, starting last year I believe, a Standard Home Office deduction was instituted on the federal return. Apparently, PA does not allow this standard deduction for Home Office use, so I had to revert to adding up all those additional expenses and prorating them based on in my home space used. TT did not require the itemization of these expenses for my PA return, only a single figure. My question, perhaps stated more clearly, concerns the mechanics of TT Home & Business. When I indicated in the federal interrogation the total amount of our RE Taxes for the year, if that actually impacted my federal tax liability, does that carry over to my PA return so that adding my RE tax to the calculation of PA Home Office Expense is a duplication. We're talking peanuts here, so absent a convincing, definitive answer I'm going to ask for forgiveness rather than permission.
