Do i enter annual home office expenses or just a portion of it on Turbotax online?

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April 2, 2025
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I have home office expenses from my self-employed job. How should I enter that into Turbotax online? The software asked me to provide "total amount for expenses."

Does that mean I put the total cost of rent, internet and utilities for the entire year in the section? Will turbotax calculate the percentage usage automatically? Or do I need to calculate the percentage usage manually and put that number in home office expenses?

Thank you

TurboTaxSusan

You would enter the total amount of the expense, and then TurboTax will calculate your allowable portion based on the information about your workspace that you gave earlier.

amarisredAuthor

Thanks for the info! Appreciate your help.

Actually, I forgot to add more critical information about my self-employment job. I only worked on my job for half the year, from September to December. Do I put the total cost of rent, internet and utilities just for those 4 months or for the entire year?

TurboImpotVeronique

If you worked only as self-employed from September to December, you will have to change the fiscal period in your Self-employment section, or on the T2125 form if you are using TurboTax Desktop).

Thank you for choosing TurboTax.