The irs allows you to make a simple calculation for small office spaces.
Home office tax square footage. The percentage of office use is 120 square feet 1 200 square feet x 100 10. You can deduct 5 of your expenses as a business expense. If your home office is 300 square feet or less the irs has an optional simplified method of calculating your home office deduction. Allowable square footage of home use for business not to exceed 300 square feet percentage of home used for business.
Office that s 100 square feet out of a 2 000. The maximum space is 300 square feet for a maximum deduction of 1 500. Deduction for home office use of a portion of a residence allowed only if that portion is exclusively used on a regular basis for business purposes. Find the square footage of your home office space and multiply that by 5 a square foot.
Can you deduct office expenses if you re working at home during covid 19. Find out the square footage of your home. As an example assume your home has 1 200 square feet and your office is a room that is 10 x 12 feet 120 square feet. The second option is to calculate the square footage of the space you use for business and divide that by the total square footage of your home.
The percentage determines how much of your total home expenses like rent utilities insurance can be deducted for your home office. To do this you divide the square footage of your office space by the total square footage of the home. You need to determine the square footage of your entire home and the square footage of your office. If your home office is a 15 ft by 15 ft room then its total square footage is 225 square feet 15 ft x 15 ft 225 square feet.
With this method your home office space is a percentage of your home s total square footage. Simplified square footage in 2013 the irs made it easier to claim the home office deduction. That s 5 of your home that s used for business. Taxpayers using the regular method required for tax years 2012 and prior instead of the optional method must determine the actual expenses of their home office.
For example assume you have a 2 000 square foot home and your home office is 100 square feet. Your home office space is 132 square feet 11 x 12 your total home square footage is 1 100. A portion of their property tax and insurance from a home office. These expenses may include mortgage interest insurance utilities repairs and depreciation.
For example if your home office covers 1000 square feet but your entire home is 4000 square feet your home office percentage would be 25. For example if your home office is 200 square feet you ll get a 1 000 deduction.