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Completing "Tell Us About Your Home" for the Home Office Deduction
My wife is a full time real estate agent. She has a small home office. For 2022 TTax it was entered using Actual Expenses. Repeating the same process for 2023. Towards the end of the interview a screen comes up asking "Tell Us About Your Home". I do not recall this screen last year. Where would the 2022 answers be found? I do not want to depreciate the home.
"Tell Us About Your Home" fields:
Describe the item asset:
Cost:
Cost of Land:
Date purchased or acquired: (mm/dd/yyyy)
Date I started using it in this business:
I verified the actual expenses are correct on the 2022 Form 8829. But all the 2022 entries on Form 8829 for "Depreciation of Your Home" are blank (no entry).
37 Enter the smaller of your home’s adjusted basis or its fair market value. See instructions . . . 37
38 Value of land included on line 37 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
39 Basis of building. Subtract line 38 from line 37 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
40 Business basis of building. Multiply line 39 by line 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
41 Depreciation percentage (see instructions) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 %
42 Depreciation allowable (see instructions). Multiply line 40 by line 41. Enter here and on line 30 above 42
Thanks for looking!