Super Happy I found this Channel1!! You literally explained it with grace and in simple terms! I appreciate you. My anxiety level went from 100% to 1%! Yay! Thank you, thank you!
Isn’t it on the simple a maximum of 300 ft.² times five dollars is $1500 per month that the Business has been using the Square feet henceforth that would be $18,000 at the end of the year that could be written off on the simple method
Man, your videos and your information is awesome and appreciated. Can you explain this scenario for S-Corp? If you take a deduction of 18K/Year under a corporation, but on personal tax return it's 18K in rental income, so how is this really a tax write-off/deduction? Because it seems to me that at the end, S-Corp does NOT pay taxes, but the K1 personal statement pays for it. Is there a way to get by this? THANKS in advance.
Your example of calculating the home office deduction according to the square footage percentage was confusing.This one and previous videos stated for homeowners: only certain components of the mortgage payment can be deducted (mortgage interest, property tax (included or outside of mortgage payments), etc. --the entire mortgage payment can not be deducted. I understand that monthly rent payments can, but you gave the example of monthly rent/mortgage payments which I believe is incorrect. Although, I think it was a mistake/oversight, this is misleading. Could you please make that correction on this video if it is applicable? If I am mistaken, I apologize! Thanks!
Hey quick question. So I’m filing my taxes through turbo tax and if I use the same office space for 3 separate businesses, do I claim the entire office space for one business, divide that space into the three businesses or can I claim that entire office space for all three businesses? Thanks in advance!
If you have a home office but then sell your home after living in after 2 years, does the home office deduction affect the capital gains tax deduction?
Great video! Thanks, your content is helping me a lot. The working in your garage and making products in your home kitchen examples actually wouldn’t qualify though right b/c they’re not exclusive to the business (assuming you use your garage for parking a car and a kitchen for cooking food)? Thx again!
This will be my 1st year claiming the Home office deduction. My question is how do I actually get it applied to my annual tax filing? Is there a certain form to fill out and take to my filing appointment or can I just verbally walk through it with the tax representative? Thanks.
Sorry, to clarify, your entire mortgage payment is deductible by the percentage of your home office space? In the beginning of the video it says mortgage interest, so is it the entire mortgage payment or just mortgage interest?
Where do you write off job searches? I am confused because I don't see one person on RU-vid selling advice on doing a 2106 related to job searches in the same field .
If I just entered the whole amount of rent, which is $1,200 per month plus give the square footage of a room, will the tax preparer do all those other calculations for me
Don’t we already write off mortgage interest? How would that reconcile with this? Are all insurances and expenses on the home part of the deduction calculation?
What if you are a virtual employee not self employed but you are buying office furniture, fixing broken office window. Are those depreciated assets? Where can we enter those?
I'm a full-time w-2 employee and I just opened LLC which is not related to my w-2 job. I have a designated area in my apartment and it's being used exclusively for the administrative and all other business purposes of my LLC. Can this home office qualify for tax deduction?
For the home office deduction, I can't find anywhere talking about if you can still qualify for the home office deduction if you either live with relatives (but really work from home), or if it matters if you are really paying rent to those same relatives? Can you claim this home office deduction if you aren't really paying rent (but are really working from home.)
You made an example of a 3000sqft home (living built area I assume)...What what if the whole lot is $8000 sqft and I use alll the back yard for business purposes? ...What if I DONT use the open space or back yard to work, then the calculation wouldn't be based on 3000 sqft but 8000 sqft and the deduction would be a lot less in your example?....In conclusion does IRS consider the whole lot or just the built area?
What is you are an employee and own a business that you run from home? Also, in order to deduct, do you have to pay those bills through your business account?
In addition to the mortgage insurance, HOA, utilities, etc, would the office improvements like ceiling fan installation and flooring be a deductible expense?
Thanks a lot for the well thought out vids. My question is, how do you determine when should try to utilize this deduction?? I am a new Homeowner and have allotted my whole lower half for my studio. I’ve bought some expensive equipment as well and I’m trying to find out if it would be worth me filing as a sole prop? I’ve made no income, just money going out. It would be great to get a little back for what I’ve spent but I can’t get any CPA’s to answer these basic questions where I’m at!!?
You could've purchased all that gear under an LLC and you wouldve gotten a tax break. Did you do that with your regular taxes? Create an LLC anyway and if you keep buying gear, use your business card to pay it.
@@NanoverseProductions thanks for your reply. Learned a lot since I posted this and have secured my LLC as well as a business card. 💫 Next feat is going to be filing taxes for the purchases I’ve made. I’m hoping to get something back off of these expenses and not end up owing!
I can still take the deduction if I started my business in November, right? Instead of a year's worth of expenses, I'm thinking I'd just count the expenses for those 2 months? Please confirm whether this is ok. Thanks!
Great video! What about if you have multiple jobs - one that you’re considered an employee and get a W-2 and another job that you user your home office for? Does this make someone qualify or can you not be an “employee” at all, anywhere, and must be full time business a owner/independent contractor?
@@LYFEAccounting sorry maybe I didn't explain myself correctly. I guess I was wondering if I am disqualified because I have another job that considers me an employee? I'd only look to seek this deduction for my contract job
I am not an accountant, but for the bit that I know, it is irrelevant whether you have a regular job as an employee. The only matter that counts is the portion of your home that is exclusively used for your business.
I am no expert but I will say i am an employee at a Regular job, (wage earner) and i ALSO opened a home based business in my home, an LLC and not made a single profit but i was able to deduct my start costs for my home business therefore offsetting my taxes i wouldve paid on my Regular-employee job !! I will add that i knew this is possible bc i used TurboTax and it allowed me to do just that..
In the example you gave at the end of the video, you deducted part of the mortgage and not just the mortgage interest. Ij other parts of the video however you specified that mortgage interest cam be deducted (not principal itself).Is that correct and is it allowable? Thank yoi
Good explanation. But that calculation is wrong though at 7:54. 30,000.00x33 gives you 990,000.00. Did you mean 33% of 30000? You should clarify. Thanks.
7:09 You said "rent or mortgage payments" can be deducted. I am looking at the instructions for form 8829, and I dont see that mortgage payment can be deducted? Can you show me where they can or was that a mistake in the video?
If W2 income and started LLC. will I be able to deduct home office expenses for a business that makes $0, meaning it will eventually deduct the taxable income from W2 income as there was no income from LLC?
If we have a home office and we also rent out a portion of our single family home, then can we deduct the 7 deductions (video: 2.48) in proportion , for both these separately from our income? Pls advise?
Question- can you write off the entire mortgage note if you have a house cleaning business and you use your personal house as a model house for your business to show potential clients the quality of your work?
The mortgage interest, the taxes you paid, water bill, electricity, internet, construction work done in house, the heating boiler you changed, the electricity wire changed
