Are you an employee (paid with W-2 wages by an employer) or an independent contractor (paid with 1099-MISC money and responsible for your own self-employment taxes)?
Employee job expenses (W-2 employee) are reported on Schedule A, Itemized Deductions, if you have enough total deductions (total of allowed medical, interest, taxes, donations, 2% miscellaneous expenses including employee job expenses, etc.), such that the total exceeds your standard deduction. Once that total surpasses your standard deduction amount, then they start to count.
Employee job expenses have an additional hurdle to get over. Even if you qualify to itemize deductions, employee job expenses are in a category known as "2% miscellaneous deductions", which means they only start to count when the total of employee job expenses exceed 2% of AGI. This is also called the "2% floor" or 2% threshold."
FAQ: What is the 2% rule?
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FAQ: Employee job-related expenses
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TAX TIP: Employee workplace expenses
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