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Hello - PLEASE HELP!   I had 2 home offices in 2025 - home office 1 was through september and the home office 2 started 10-1-2025. Expenses for each home office differ. Square footage of each room differs, for example. The percent of utilities used for each home office differs, for example.   Turbo tax is asking me how long i spent in each home office. Now, by looking at raw dates: i spent the first 9 months of 2025 in home office 1 and the last 3 months in home office 2 - which is 75%, and 25%, respectively   I have the option to merge the two home office expenses and write them off as one singular home office OR account for each separately.   My question is: what is the most accurate way or best way to account for this situation in turbo tax? I want to take the full deduction I deserve. Even though I was only in home office 2 for 3 months of 2025, the expenses were large. For example, the portion of my rent proportioned for home office 2 is larger than home office 1, and so the expenses at home office 2 were NOT just 25% of the year's expenses, they were closer to 40% or 50%   in short - home office 2 is much more expensive than home office 1   I'm saying i spent 25% of the year at home office 2, and i'm writing off 30% of the rent paid at this location because i use my home office so much for work - will that rental deduction be fully accounted for? or is there a better way to do this?   I've heard you can merge your home office expenses into one home office for the year and just average everything out. For example, instead of having 2 home offices to deduct ( 1 for 9 months and 1 for 3 months ) - just merge the two and say i had one home office all year. I paid X in rent, i paid this much in utilities. etc., etc.,   But then how does that above situation work when 10% of my PGE bill was deducted for home office 1 and 30% is deducted for home office 2? ( i lived with people in the first location and don't any more - so more of the utilities are used for my home office during working hours )   Currently: i'm writing them off as 2 separate offices and saying i spent 75% of my time at home office 1 and 25% at home office 2 ( problem with this again is that my rent at home office 2 is very large and i only said I spend 25% of my time there ). I'm just worried i won't get my fulll deduction this way   I'm starting to think the more accurate way is to find a way to average the two and merge them into ONE home office.   Again, i never had 2 home offices at once.   TLDR: have 2 sets of home office expenses to account for during 2025 and trying to figure out how to account for them on my 2025 taxes in turbo tax. Do i merge them into one home office or write them off as separate home offices? I'm worried the latter option ( separate home offices ) wont get me the deduction i deserve

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