In Home Office Expenses section, there are 2 screens asking for entire home, and home office only, expenses. Both have Real Estate Taxes for "entire home". Is it correct?

[billnorthraleigh]

From my understanding, the "home office ONLY" screen asks about expenses only applicable to the home office area. I don't understand why the instruction of Real Estate Taxes is telling users "If you paid real estate (property) taxes on your entire home, enter this amount here...". This instruction seems like a copy-paste from the previous step of entering whole-house expenses, and is contradictory to the overall instruction on top of the screen "Tell us about your total expenses for this home office only". I just want to make sure I understand what to enter in the Real Estate Taxes box, the taxes I paid for the "entire home", or 0. If I hit Continue, the next screen of Summary shows Home Office Only, and Entire Home, numbers side-by-side. The Real Estate Taxes row would look confusing, if both numbers are the "Entire Home" amount.

[AnnetteB6 · Accepted solution]

I agree that the entry screens for this area are confusing and seemingly duplicate the property tax entry.

You should only enter the property tax amount for the whole house on the whole house screen.  It will then allocate a portion to the home office based on the square feet of the office.