Comments on: How to Take the Home Office Tax Deduction

By: Jennifer Mattern

Jennifer Mattern — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:06:03 +0000

Allena – I won’t pretend to be a tax expert in the slightest, so I’ll have to defer to LaToya’s comments on this one. She the finance specialist, which is why I hire her to cover this stuff. :)

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By: LaToya Irby

LaToya Irby — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:57:46 +0000

@Allena, the IRS says: "To qualify under the exclusive use test, you must use a specific area of your only for trade or business. The area used for business can be a room or other separately identifiable space. The space does not need to be marked off by a permanent partition." See the Exclusive Use section on Page 3 of Publication 587.

By: Allena

Allena — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:40:48 +0000

I have heard (and wrote about it in the past) that the IRS relaxed what “space” meant. IE- if I have a space in a ROOM then I could use that SPACE (3 square feet or whatever) as my deductible space. I have never found any concrete evidence as to this statement either way. Of course, I wish it to be true, as I know that many people don’t have a dedicated ROOM but to have a dedicated SPACE. Thoughts Jen?