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You can deduct expenses related to W-2 income:

  • If you itemize your deductions; AND
  • All of your unreimbursed employee business expenses and other miscellaneous itemized deductions added together are more than 2% of your AGI.  [Only the amount over 2% AGI is deductible.]


To include these expenses in your return, please follow these steps:

  1. Click on Federal Taxes [Personal in TurboTax Self-Employed] > Deductions & Credits.
  2. Scroll down to the Employment Expenses section and click on the Start/Revisit box next to Job Expenses for W-2 Income.  [See Screenshot #1, below.]
  3. On the Employment Expenses Related to a W-2 screen mark the Yes button and click Continue. [Screenshot #2]
  4. On the next screen, Did you have any of these expenses in 2016? mark the Yes button and click Continue[Screenshot #3]
  5. Continue through the screens entering information about your expenses.  

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