DaveF1006
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Deductions & credits

No extra steps. If you are entering expenses for your self-employment, select assets as one of your expense. As you go through the entries in assets, it will ask a question, 

  1. Did you buy any items for any business, rental property and/or farm that cost $2,500 or less in 2019? This is where you will enter those assets as expenses thus declaring your Di Minimus Safe Harbor Election. 
  2. Next screen will ask, Let's see if you can deduct these items as expenses.  Then answer the questions.  the second question will ask if you wish to make this election.
  3. Next you will enter these assets under miscellaneous expenses.  For an example, if you have a computer.  Enter under in miscellaneous expenses as Computer-Di Minimus safe harbor election. This is generally the advice I give to show the IRS what you are declaring as an expense as a safe harbor item.
  4. You will also have a Safe Harbor election form in your return proving to the IRS that you are taking this election.
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