You’re not self-employed when you’re an employee receiving a Form W-2, and you can’t write off expenses from your employment as a self-employed person would be entitled to do.
You are correct that, by Congress changing the law several years ago, you can’t write off employee expenses that you likely would’ve been able to deduct before the law was passed.
Please see the TurboTax Help article Am I considered self-employed? for more information.
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