When you ask: Did you meet with patients, clients, or customers in your home office? Does this include online consultations?

AndyAMG — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:26:11 GMT

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Vanessa A — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:46:43 GMT

Yes, it does include online consultations.

One of the IRS criteria for business use of the home is that you exclusively on a regular basis as a place where you meet or deal with your patients, clients or customers in the normal course of your trade or business.

If you are doing online consultations that would be considered dealing with your patients, clients or customers in the normal course of your trade or business.

To deduct expenses for business use of the home, you must use part of your home as one of the following:

Exclusively on a regular basis as your principal place of business for your trade or business;
Exclusively on a regular basis as a place where you meet or deal with your patients, clients, or customers in the normal course of your trade or business;
A separate structure that's not attached to your home, used exclusively on a regular basis in connection with your trade or business;
On a regular basis for storage of inventory or product samples used in your trade or business of selling products at retail or wholesale, so long as your home is the sole fixed location of such trade or business;
For rental use; or
As a daycare facility.

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