When you're running two businesses that are taxed as sole proprietorships, the Internal Revenue Service requires you to report the income and expenses of each business separately.
So practically you should split expenses between your business. For common expenses, as long as you have a rule that you use to split the expenses, that would be acceptable to the IRS.
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