by Jim Magary | Mar 27, 2015 | Tax Help
Office in Home Tax Deduction
Nearly 3.4 million taxpayers claimed deductions of more than $10 billion for business use of a home, which is commonly referred to as the home office deduction.
Introduced in tax year 2013, the optional deduction is designed to reduce the paperwork and recordkeeping burden for small businesses.
The optional deduction is capped at $1,500 per year, based on $5 a square foot for up to 300 square feet.
Normally, home-based businesses are required to fill out a 43-line form (Form 8829) often with complex calculations of allocated expenses, depreciation and carryovers of unused deductions.
Taxpayers choosing the simplified method need only complete a short worksheet in the tax instructions and enter the result on their tax return.
Self-employed individuals claim the home office deduction on Schedule C, Line 30; farmers claim it on Schedule F, Line 32; and eligible employees claim it on Schedule A, Line 21.
Homeowners using the simplified method cannot depreciate the portion of their home used in a trade or business, they can claim allowable mortgage interest, real estate taxes and casualty losses on the home as itemized deductions on Schedule A.
These tax deductions need not be allocated between personal and business use, as is required under the regular method.
Business expenses unrelated to the home, such as advertising, supplies and wages paid to employees, are still fully deductible.
Long-standing restrictions on the home office deduction, such as the requirement that a home office be used regularly and exclusively for business and the limit tied to the income derived from the particular business, still apply under the simplified method.
by Jim Magary | Mar 27, 2015 | Tax Help
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Business Use of Car & the IRS Tax Deduction
If you use your car in your job or business and you use it only for that purpose, you may deduct its entire cost of operation (subject to limits discussed later).
However, if you use the car for both business and personal purposes, you may deduct only the cost of its business use.
You can generally figure the amount of your deductible car expense by using one of two methods: the standard mileage rate method or the actual expense method.
If you qualify to use both methods, you may want to figure your deduction both ways before choosing a method to see which one gives you a larger deduction.
If you use the standard mileage rate, you can add to your deduction any parking fees and tolls incurred for business purposes.
To use the standard mileage rate, you must own or lease the car and:
• You must not operate five or more cars at the same time, as in a fleet operation,
• You must not have claimed a depreciation deduction for the car using any method other than straight-line,
• You must not have claimed a Section 179 deduction on the car,
• You must not have claimed the special depreciation allowance on the car,
• You must not have claimed actual expenses after 1997 for a car you lease, and
• You cannot be a rural mail carrier who received a “qualified reimbursement.”
To use the standard mileage rate for a car you own, you must choose to use it in the first year the car is available for use in your business.
Then, in later years, you can choose to use the standard mileage rate or actual expenses.
For a car you lease, you must use the standard mileage rate method for the entire lease period (including renewals) if you choose the standard mileage rate.
To use the actual expense method, you must determine what it actually costs to operate the car for the portion of the overall use of the car that is business use.
Include gas, oil, repairs, tires, insurance, registration fees, licenses, and depreciation (or lease payments) attributable to the portion of the total miles driven that are business miles.
Other car expenses for parking fees and tolls attributable to business use are separately deductible, whether you use the standard mileage rate or actual expenses.
Generally, the Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System (MACRS) is the only depreciation method that can be used by car owners to depreciate any car placed in service after 1986.
However, if you used the standard mileage rate in the year you place the car in service and change to the actual expense method in a later year and before your car is fully depreciated, you must use straight-line depreciation over the estimated remaining useful life of the car.
There are limits on how much depreciation you can deduct. For additional information on the depreciation limits, please refer to Topic 704. Publication 463, Travel, Entertainment, Gift, and Car Expenses, explains the depreciation limits and discusses special rules applicable to leased cars.
The law requires that you substantiate your expenses by adequate records or by sufficient evidence to support your own statement.
If you are an employee whose deductible business expenses are fully reimbursed under an accountable plan, the reimbursements should not be included in your wages on your Form W-2 (PDF), Wage and Tax Statement, and you should not deduct the expenses.
If your employer uses a nonaccountable plan to reimburse you for the expenses, the reimbursements are includable in your wages.
Your employer will combine the amount of any reimbursement or other expense allowance paid to you under a nonaccountable plan with your wages, salary, or other compensation and report the total on your Form W-2.
You may deduct employee business expenses as an itemized deduction.
If you are an employee who intends to deduct your car expenses including expenses that exceed reimbursement under an accountable plan, you must complete Form 2106 (PDF), Employee Business Expenses, or Form 2106-EZ (PDF), Unreimbursed Employee Business Expenses, and itemize your deductions on Form 1040, Schedule A (PDF), Itemized Deductions.
Your employee expenses are subject to the 2% of adjusted gross income limit. Refer to Topic 508 for information on the 2% limit.
If you are self-employed, deduct car expenses on Form 1040, Schedule C (PDF), Profit or Loss From Business, or Form 1040, Schedule C-EZ (PDF), Net Profit From Business, or on Form 1040, Schedule F (PDF), Profit or Loss From Farming, if you are a farmer.
