HI-

This is SUCH a great resource - thank you for this forum.

I work out of my office at home. I am a web developer and it is a dedicated room in my house.
I was wondering, I had to replace the roof on my house this past year, is any of that cost tax deductible? I do not want to push the envelope, so if it's not a good idea, that is ok. I seem to have many friends that are contractors as well, and with any home repair at all they find a way to take the deduction because they work from a home office.

Thanks in advance...

Shawna

Actually, I recently wrote an article as to what the rules are regarding home office deductions. Please refer to the following link below, which discusses the allowable expense that can be included as part of Home Office Deduction.

http://www.asktaxguru.com/649-what-a...deduction.html

Let us assume that you have actually satisfied the IRS conditions to claim an Office at Home. So you would then be entitled to claim all reasonable and necessary expenses related to this office. The IRS rules included in the article above states all the expenses that are includable as part of the Office at Home Deduction.

Since Repairs are included, then it would seem reasonable that repairs would qualify as a part of your overall home office deduction expense. But, remember, the amount that can be deducted as qualified expenses would be:

Sq footage of Home Devoted to Business
------------------------------------------------x Total Repair Expenses
Total Sq footage of the Entire Home

So, in fact, it is only going to be the % of home used for business multiplied by the Repair expenses.

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Yes, I read your very informative article - thank you.
All of my home deductions are calculated this way - my office is only about 15% of my home space - just was not aware that home repairs could be factored in as an expense.

thank you again...