Since you were self-employed there are a lot of deductions you could claim as an expense. One of them is the use of your home, expenses like mortgage interest, rent, utilities, repairs, and depreciation for the portion of your home or rental that you use to run your business are allowable. To claim them your home must be used regularly and exclusively for your business, and must be your principal place of business.
In addition to your home expenses, as Bsch4477 mentioned, you could also claim your computer, and internet use based on a percentage of how much they were used for business. Other common expenses are the use of your phone, office supplies, licenses, and memberships, among others. See the below TurboTax help articles for more information, as well as the steps on how to enter your home office expenses in the program:
To enter your home office expenses:
- Open or continue your return
- Search for Schedule C
- Select the Jump to link in the search results
- Answer any questions about your business until you get to the Your self-employed work summary screen
- Select Edit or Review next to your business
- Select Home Office
- Also, select any other expense categories that apply to your business
- Select Continue at the bottom of the screen
- On the Here's your work info screen, scroll down to the Expenses section
- Select Start next to Home Office.
- Enter the info about your home office (you’ll need the square footage of your home and of the space you used for work
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