As an employee, you used Form 2106 Unreimbursed Employee Expenses to claim your expenses.
The amounts claimed on Form 2106 are then reported as part
of Schedule A, Itemized Deductions.
Furthermore, the 2106 amount is limited by 2% of your Adjusted Gross
Income (AGI) before being included on Schedule A. This makes it even tougher to get a tax
benefit from claiming unreimbursed employee expenses if you are not already
using itemized deductions.
You can use the following steps to compare the results of
what your itemized deduction amount would be versus your standard deduction:
On the top row of the TurboTax
online screen, click on Search (or for CD/downloaded TurboTax locate the
search box in the upper right corner)
This opens a box where you
can type in “itemized deductions, choosing” (be sure to enter exactly as
shown here) and click the magnifying glass (or for CD/downloaded
TurboTax, click Find)
The search results will
give you an option to “Jump to itemized deductions, choosing”
- Click on the blue “Jump
to itemized deductions, choosing” link
Also, take a look at the following TurboTax articles.
https://ttlc.intuit.com/replies/4800344
https://ttlc.intuit.com/replies/3302313
