You will claim this rental cost as "rental expense" on your schedule C which is where you will be reporting all of your business income and expenses.
To enter your office rental expense, please follow these steps:
- Click on Federal to the left of your screen and
- Click on Income and Expenses and then click the Start/Review box in the Self-Employment section.
- On the Your 2019 self-employed work summary screen, click on Edit next to your business. or click on Add a line of work if you haven't entered anything yet for this business
- After you add your business info and get back to the "Here's your business info" screen, click on Add Expenses for this work
- Scroll all the way down to Less Common Expenses and click on the arrow to open up more choices
- Building or land rental includes Office space rental
- Continue through the interview, entering the requested information.