I bought a property last year, my primary residence, and immediately started renting out 2 of the 3 bedrooms. Those bedrooms, exclusively rented out, make up 20% of the overall square footage.
In TurboTax, it's correctly splitting my Schedule A & E interest and taxes, but it is NOT prorating my depreciation.
It shows $8,000 depreciation every year, even though only 20% of my home is rented out.
If I change the rental use percentage to 100%, the depreciation calculation doesn't change.
Is this a bug, or do I misunderstand the tax code?
To work around this, I could in theory prorate the asset price itself, BUT the next year I may rent out more or fewer rooms than in 2021, so I'm not sure if I can "edit" the cost basis later. It feels sketchy to put in prorated details for "Cost of Land" "Recording fees" etc. Can I? Is this what I should do? Can I edit it next year if I rent it all out, or less of it?
I checked
Sources: https://finance.zacks.com/owneroccupied-tax-deduction-8361.html
we can't see what you did. the likely issue is that you entered the full cost of the house so you must indicate business use of 20% on the asset entry worksheet. (TurboTax does not use the % of business use for depreciation expense) and don't forget to do a land allocation