Form 8829 - Lesser of square footage or 300

[jjoh1922]

I am trying to efile my taxes and have one error keeping it from being submitted. On Form 8829 my home office information Line C says enter the lesser of your office's square footage or 300. My home office is 115 square feet, so I have 115 entered which is less than 300. However it keeps saying "Need to review" so for some reason 115 is not being accepted and it is holding me up from submitting my taxes. I don't understand because 115 is less than 300 square feet and I don't what else to put in that box.

[AnnetteB6 · Accepted solution]

Are you claiming more than one home office for the same Schedule C?  For example, did you move during the year and had a home office in each home?

If that is the case, then one of the home offices must use the actual expense method.  Both cannot use the simplified method for calculating the home office expense.

[jjoh1922]

I think that was it. I went back and use the actual expenses and it worked.

[Atlantis]

okay, so , same issue, except , two seperate home offices ad on seperate schedule Cs. Does one have to use the actual expenses still? how to get past and fix this (one office is 300sq ft one office is 196 sg ft

[RobertB4444]

Yes, only one office in the home can take the standard, the other office has to itemize expenses.  

@Atlantis