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.
Home office expenses self employed cra. You can deduct expenses you paid in 2019 for the employment use of a work space in your home as long as you had to pay for them under your contract of employment. The home office is ancillary to the main use of the property as a residence. Line 22900 was line 229 before tax year 2019. For example if your home office is 20 square meters and your home is 200 square meters your office is 10 of your home which means you are able to deduct 10 of your mortgage interest or rent utilities home insurance security monitoring fees repairs and other.
If your home is 1 000 square feet and your home office measures 200 square feet you ll be able to claim an amount equal to 20 200 1 000 20 of your related expenses on your return. Unfortunately there are certain expenses that a salaried employee can t claim on their return. Form tl2 claim for meals and lodging expenses form tl2 is used by transport employees such as employees of airline railway bus or trucking companies as well as other transport employees who. Limitation on amount deductible in a year.
Include form t777 with your income tax and benefit return. Completing your tax return. 1 the work space must be your principal place of business or used exclusively for the purpose of earning income from business. Home office expenses for the self employed.
Enter the lower amount of line 24 or 25 of form t777 at line 9945. Form t777 statement of employment expenses use form t777 to calculate your allowable employment expenses. Enter on line 22900 the allowable amount of your employment expenses from the total expenses line of form t777. Do this when the gst hst for which you are claiming the input tax credit was paid or became payable whichever is earlier.
When you claim the gst hst you paid or owe on your business expenses as an input tax credit reduce the amounts of the business expenses by the amount of the input tax credit. If you re self employed your business will have various running costs. To determine your home office expenses calculate the size of your home office as a percentage of your home s total size. First determine if your workspace qualifies and then look at which expenses you can claim.
The amount of home office expenses that a self employed person may deduct in a given year is capped at the net income from the business before any deductions for home office expenses. Complete the calculation of work space in the home expenses portion of form t777 statement of employment expenses. Similarly subtract any other rebate grant or assistance from the expense to which it applies. Forms included in this guide.