Thanks for the feedback. 2025 was the first year of income "under this business". In a prior tax year (2023), I lumped my income in on my wife's Schedule C, but 2025 I had more income and expenses and decided to break it out. Also, now that we get 1099s under our SSNs rather the business EIN it made more sense to split.
I originally entered 1/1/25 as first day used for business, I entered 12 months and 100% of (which I don't believe I was asked on wife's Schedule C interview).
I do not have inventory or samples, the home is 3800sq ft. I entered 300 for my wife's office, and a separate 300ft space for mine. As I did not have any self-employment income in 2024, that question is moot. I answered "no" to expenses to deduct from a prior year. I still don't understand why no deduction.
I did try changing the "first date used" to 4/1/23, as I did have self-employment income in 2023 but it did not change the result.
