Unrelated home expenses such as lawn care or painting a room other than your office are not deductible for your home office.
Home office expense landscaping. Can i include the landscaping expenses as part of the total expenses. Calculating indirect expenses to figure what portion of an indirect expense can be deducted multiply the percentage of your home that is used for business by the amount of the expense. That might not sound like a lot but if your landscaping and lawn expenses last year. If you run a home business you re entitled to write off a share of home expenses and surprisingly that may include landscaping.
The deductible portion of your expenses is based on the percentage of your home that is used for business. If your office space is in a rented house or apartment where you live deduct the percentage of the rent and any maintenance costs you paid that relate to the work space. A tax court ruling in a 2008 case said that if you meet clients at your home office keeping the home looking good is deductible. So if you have 10 rooms in your house and your office is one you can deduct 10 of the cost of landscaping on your taxes.
The us tax court has allowed landscaping costs as part of the home office deduction in limited cases where the taxpayer used his home as his sole office and his clients regularly came to his home to conduct business. In deducting lawn care expenses related to your home office you can write off only the portion of your lawn care that s connected to your work.