Moved California to Oregon in 2018. Had home office in Oregon only. But Sch C Wks and Form 8829 appear in California return only, not Oregon. What do I do to fix this?

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June 6, 2019
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I moved from California to Oregon in 2018. I had a home office in Oregon only. But Sch C Wks and Form 8829 appear in California return only, not Oregon. What do I do to fix this?

Also, I noticed that when I go to "review", it is saying there is an issue with my Sch C Wks: "Sch C Wks (Graphic Design) -- Form 8829 (Home office 1) -- FOrm 8829 Worksheet: Allocable home office expenses from both copies of the Form 8829 worksheet, when added together, must equal Schedule C, line 28 total expenses of $X

Then it is asking me for "Allocable home office exp"

I am thinking that If I get the appropriate forms REMOVED from my california return, this this issue from the review will go away. HOWEVER, I think the sch C should be appearing on my Oregon return, since that is where my home office was?

Now I'm wondering if I should just deleted my california and oregon return and restart the process there so that the correct forms get generated? I'm thinking the correct forms initially got incorrectly generated because my home office address was incorrect. I fixed it, but the sch C forms are still showing up where I didn't expect.

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MarilynG

Level 15

Yes, it sounds like you may have two Home Office Worksheets; one for Oregon and one for California.

To look at the list of Forms and Worksheets in your return, on the left-side menu, choose Tax Tools > Tools, then 'Delete a Form' from the Tools Center pop-up menu.

You could delete both States, as you suggest, and then prepare your Part-Year California return first; then your Part-Year Oregon return.

However, the error may originate in your Federal return. Type 'home office' in the Search window, then 'Jump to home office' . Edit your Business, scroll down to Home Office under Expenses and Edit.

If you have two Home Offices shown on the 'Home Office Summary' page, delete the incorrect one, or delete both and go through the section again (screenshot).

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jonjpimentelAuthor

Level 2

I tried the following: 1) deleting both state returns (oregon and california) and starting over for state returns. That didn't work, and the schedule C still appeared on California and not on Oregon. 2) I tried just deleting the schedule C from California, but then the schedule C never shows up on Oregon. If I try rerunning through the california return, the schedule C gets reapplied to california. The business address in the federal return is in Oregon too, so I would think this would have made the schedule C apply to Oregon, but no. Now I'm even wondering if a schedule C is supposed to be applied to Oregon? However, there is no other indication of business losses/income in my oregon return it appears.

Dmitry1

Level 4

I also had 2 home offices and moved to California. I entered everything correctly. But I see this error which makes absolutely no sense. And nobody cares... I trusted TurboTax, but not anymore.

Dmitry1

Level 4

I found that this issue was caused by California Adjustment ($138 in my case) which was automatically (!!!) applied by TurboTax without any explanation. It's a clear issue in the app!

jtsunkara24

Level 2

We moved houses in 2020- stayed at each for 6 months where my home office was located. I filled all the right numbers, but getting this error: Sch C Wks (Consulting)--form 8829 worksheet: allocable home office expenses from both copies of the form 8829, when added together, must equal Schedule C, line 28 total expenses ($xxxx). Can you please help me fix this? Thanks

DaveF1006

Level 15

This doesn't make sense. Line 28 are the total of all other expenses before the Home Office Expense. The Home Office expense totals are on Line 30 of the Schedule C.

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