I am trying to investigate this possible issue. Please take a look at your entries in the Home Office section of your return and verify that you have entered a number on the screen titled Business conducted in home office. It is asking for the percentage of time you spend conducting business in your home office. If this field is left blank, then the program assumes that no business is conducted in the home office and the deduction is disallowed.
If you have verified that this value has been accurately entered and you are still seeing a problem with the negative gross income limitation, then please see the instructions below and submit a diagnostic copy of your tax return. The diagnostic file will not contain personally identifiable information, only numbers related to your tax forms.
Thank you for your help in advance.
If you would like to provide us with the diagnostic file, follow the instructions below and post the token number along with which version of TurboTax you are using and what states you are filing in a follow-up thread.
Use these steps if you are using TurboTax Online:
- Sign in to your account and be sure you are in your tax return.
- Select Tax Tools in the menu to the left.
- Select Tools.
- Select Share my file with agent.
- A pop-up message will appear, select OK to send the sanitized diagnostic copy to us.
- Post the token number here.
If you are using a CD/downloaded version of TurboTax, use these steps:
- Select Online at the top of the screen.
- Select Send Tax File to Agent.
- Click OK.
- Post the token number here.
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