Home office expenses qualify for a deduction from income tax if a number of requirements are met and these are spelled out in sections 11 and 23 of the income tax act.
Home office expenses capital gain. If your home is your principal place of business you can claim income tax deductions for a portion of the costs of owning or renting maintaining and using your home for this purpose. He works out that his private use is 10. R2 000 000 r1 933 333 r66 666 total capital gain. Linus uses his home office including the desk and chair for both work and private purposes.
When completing his tax return linus usually claims his home office expenses using the fixed rate method. If you rent your home you can deduct the part of the rent and any expenses you incur that relate to the workspace. However wherever your home office was located you will have to pay a capital gains tax on the depreciation deductions you took after may 6 1997 for the office. Where this is the case the way you set up your home office and claimed running and occupancy expenses will determine how much capital gains tax if any you ll need to pay.
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. Generally the sale of your home will be exempt from paying capital gains tax unless your home was used to run a business. When selling your home you ll be liable for capital gains tax on a portion of any capital gain. 50 of capital gain is subject to tax and hence taxable capital gain 75k x 50 37 500.
Annual capital gain exclusion r66 666 r40 000 r26 666 the inclusion rate for capital gains is 40 for individuals. He keeps the required records to show how he calculates his claim. Using the same numbers as in the first example the capital gain that is. Portion of the capital gain attributable to the property s use as a home office.
For more information go to income tax folio s4 f2 c2 business use of home expenses. It is also worth noting that even if there is exclusive business use of one part of the property it is only a proportion of the gain from selling your home that would become chargeable to capital gains tax and with a cgt annual exemption of 10 600 per person you may well have no capital gains tax to pay anyway especially if the property is. If you use your home for both rental purpose home office as well the combine use is 60 in relation to the total size of the home you will be paying tax on 60 of the gain. This is the annual deduction you are allowed for the yearly decline in value due to wear and tear of the portion of the building that contains your home office.