Line 16a represents the total employee business expense being claimed on Form 2106 without regard to the home office expense. This value is calculated and filled in by TurboTax after all employee business expenses have been entered. If your line 16a is blank, that means that only home office expenses have been included on Form 2106.
After all other employee business expenses have been entered, you will need to go back through each home office section to allocate a portion of that total to each home office. This is done on the screen titled 'Allocating employee business expenses'. If you only have home office expenses to claim, then enter '0' for the allocation within each home office section.
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