https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/taxes/discussion/my-son-pays-rent-for-his-room-and-board-do-i-have-to-do-a-sch-c-to-report-this/01/3079246#M1124546 Tue, 24 Feb 2026 06:53:53 GMT richb3 2026-02-24T06:53:53Z https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/taxes/discussion/my-son-pays-rent-for-his-room-and-board-do-i-have-to-do-a-sch-c-to-report-this/01/3079246#M1124546 Tue, 24 Feb 2026 06:53:53 GMT https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/taxes/discussion/my-son-pays-rent-for-his-room-and-board-do-i-have-to-do-a-sch-c-to-report-this/01/3079246#M1124546 richb3 2026-02-24T06:53:53Z https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/taxes/discussion/re-my-son-pays-rent-for-his-room-and-board-do-i-have-to-do-a-sch-c-to-report-this/01/3079265#M1124557 <P>Report it on Sch E if at all. You could treat it as expense sharing and not even report it.</P> Mon, 24 Jul 2023 20:50:23 GMT https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/taxes/discussion/re-my-son-pays-rent-for-his-room-and-board-do-i-have-to-do-a-sch-c-to-report-this/01/3079265#M1124557 M-MTax 2023-07-24T20:50:23Z https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/taxes/discussion/re-my-son-pays-rent-for-his-room-and-board-do-i-have-to-do-a-sch-c-to-report-this/01/3079273#M1124562 <P>Do you mean your son is paying rent to you to live in your home?&nbsp; &nbsp;If this is simply family cost sharing then there is nothing to enter on a tax return about it.&nbsp; &nbsp;Or do you have some sort of written rental/lease agreement with your son?&nbsp; &nbsp;Please explain what is going on so we can be more helpful.</P> Mon, 24 Jul 2023 21:00:51 GMT https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/taxes/discussion/re-my-son-pays-rent-for-his-room-and-board-do-i-have-to-do-a-sch-c-to-report-this/01/3079273#M1124562 xmasbaby0 2023-07-24T21:00:51Z https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/taxes/discussion/re-my-son-pays-rent-for-his-room-and-board-do-i-have-to-do-a-sch-c-to-report-this/01/3079274#M1124563 <P>If you want to treat the rent as a business, and you are charging a fair market level of rent (the same as you would charge a stranger to rent a room with kitchen privileges and whatever else), then you could consider reporting it on schedule E (not C). &nbsp;However, if you are not charging a fair market rent, there is really no benefit to going to all the trouble. &nbsp;In the case of family sharing expenses, there is no requirement to treat family as a business (unless you want to).&nbsp;</P> Mon, 24 Jul 2023 21:03:56 GMT https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/taxes/discussion/re-my-son-pays-rent-for-his-room-and-board-do-i-have-to-do-a-sch-c-to-report-this/01/3079274#M1124563 Opus 17 2023-07-24T21:03:56Z