If the use of the home office is merely appropriate and helpful you cannot deduct expenses for the business use of your home.
Home office expenses floor space. Leigh ann has a separate office at home fitted out with a computer and printer which she uses exclusively for her graphic design job. 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. Can i include more area such as the kitchen used for meals during office hours and the dining room used for meetings. A common method of working out how much to claim is the floor area as a proportion of the floor area in your whole home.
Apportion the cost of bills according to floor space of each room rather than equally as in step 2 in our example above if it makes more sense to how you use your home office. If your employer has an office in the city or town where you live your home office will not be a place of business even if your work requires you to work outside normal business hours. Work out the cost of your cleaning expenses if you have a dedicated work area for example a room set up as a home office by adding together your receipts and multiplying it by the floor area of your dedicated work area floor area of the dedicated work area divided by the whole area of the house as a percentage your claim should be. The computer and printer were purchased two years ago for r12 000 and r8 000 respectively.
Her office is 20 square meters and the floor space of her entire home including the office is 200 square meters. For a full explanation of tax deductions for your home office refer to publication 587 business use of your home. Is floor space the only apportionment method. In this publication you will find.