Claiming business use of home expenses.
Claiming a home office on your taxes canada. For example if your home office takes up 10 percent of the square footage of your home you can claim 10 percent of utilities insurance property tax and mortgage interest. First determine if your workspace qualifies and then look at which expenses you can claim. Enter the lower amount of line 24 or 25 of form t777 at line 9945. First to claim home expenses your home office must either be your principal place of work that is more than half your working time is spent there or the space must be used solely for your.
If your office space is in a rented house or apartment where you live deduct the percentage of the rent as well as any maintenance costs you paid that relates to the work space. I don t usually record the amount in the books. The amount you can deduct for work space in the home expenses is limited to the amount of employment income remaining after all other employment expenses have been. When you sell your house after having claimed the home office deduction the deduction can affect your capital gains taxes.
Completing your tax return. The canada revenue agency allows you to deduct business use of home or workspace in the home expenses from your income lowering your taxable income and reducing your tax burden. Enter these amounts in the calculation of allowable motor vehicle expenses area on form t777 statement of employment expenses and attach it to your paper return. Enter on line 22900 the allowable amount of your employment expenses from the total expenses line of form t777.
Among the many impacts of covid 19 non essential canadian workers have been forced to quickly adapt to working from home. Completing your tax return. Self employed individuals and qualified employees can claim expenses associated with having a home office. Complete the calculation of work space in the home expenses portion of form t777 statement of employment expenses.
For more information go to income tax folio s4 f2 c2 business use of home expenses. Given the current circumstances taxpayers may be wondering if any home office expenses can be claimed on their tax returns. The capital gains tax exclusion allowed from the sale of your primary residence could be reduced by the amount that you have claimed for depreciation on your home office. Sole proprietors claiming their home office expenses do so on the t2125 schedule of the t1 income tax and benefit return.
The capital gain and recapture rules will apply if you deduct cca on the business use part of your home and you later sell your home. If your home office qualifies for the tax deduction you can claim a portion of your household expenses.