I entered total home expenses and it did not calculate the 20% for the home office, it shows the entire home expense. What did I do wrong?

[maryjohnson10254]

Like in past years I entered total home expense and my office is 20% ofthe total space.  Turbo tax was to calculate 20% of the expenses but it didnot and I now show 100% of my expenses for my office.  What did I do different this year??

[MichaelDC · Accepted solution]

Depending on how you answer the questions, TurboTax will allocate the home expenses to the entire house or to the home office only. (See the attached screenshot below. Click to enlarge.) The expense screens will look almost the same.

If the expenses are added to the home office only, it will look like the entire house expense is attributed to the home office.